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Funding clarity for organizations doing complex work.
You catalyze change. We build the funding systems that sustain it.
We build reusable, adaptable funding materials that can be tailored to different funders, audiences, and opportunities—without reducing your work to one fixed narrative.
Project-Based Services
Choose focused support for the work in front of you. Each engagement is tailored to your organization’s goals, capacity, and budget, with clear deliverables your team can continue using.
Shared Ground Funding
Foundation™
Build the strategy, language, resources, and systems behind stronger funding. This comprehensive engagement brings the essential pieces together so your team can pursue grants, donors, sponsorships, and other opportunities with greater clarity and consistency.
You receive a customized funding strategy, clear priorities, stronger core messaging, reusable proposal and impact language, organized funding resources, practical tracking tools, and a 90-day plan for putting the work into action.
The scope is tailored to your organization’s size, stage, goals, capacity, and budget.
Funding Readiness
Audits
Understand how prepared your organization is to pursue funding before investing more time in applications. We review your materials, messaging, documentation, program clarity, systems, and funder alignment to identify strengths, gaps, and the areas most likely to improve results.
You receive a written assessment of your strengths, priorities, risks, and practical next steps your team can use internally or implement with Shared Ground.
Not sure where to start?
Case for Support
& Core Messaging
Complex programs are not always easy to explain. This service turns your work, experience, community need, program design, and impact into clear language funders, donors, and partners can quickly understand.
You receive a core messaging guide, a compelling case for support, clear program and impact language, and reusable content for grants, donor materials, websites, presentations, and funding conversations.
Grant Strategy
& Funder Research
Build a more focused and realistic funding pipeline. We identify opportunities that align with your programs, geography, organizational stage, priorities, and capacity so your team can spend less time chasing weak leads and more time pursuing stronger fits.
You receive a curated funder prospect list, fit and eligibility notes, priority recommendations, key deadlines, and clear next steps for outreach and application planning.
Additional Supports
Flexible support for a specific opportunity, deadline, document, meeting, or next step.
Proposal Development
& Review
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Letters of inquiry and concept papers
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Foundation and corporate grant proposals
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Application narratives and budget narratives
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Proposal review and strengthening
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Final compliance checks before submission
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Grant reports and renewal narratives
Strategy & Communications
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Monthly strategy calls focused on current priorities
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Grant calendars and prioritized funding pipelines
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Donor and funder tracking tools
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Follow-up, stewardship, and reporting workflows
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Review of narratives, decks, and board materials
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Preparation for funder meetings, site visits, and presentations
Ready to strengthen your funding approach?
Tell us what your organization is working toward. We’ll help identify the right level of support.