Technical Assistance The institute provides assistance in the following areas: FUNDING: proposal writing, obtaining federal, state and local government grants, foundation grants, and funding from private investors and venture capitalists. ADMINISTRATION: management structures, policies and procedures, linkages with related operations, financial planning and management, and legal assistance. PLANNING: feasibility studies, impact analyses and assessments, strategic planning and global budgeting.

Online Grant Writing Tools

The Rapid Proposal Centers enable you to cut the time it takes to respond to federal requests for proposals in half. You get instant access to the critical information you need to respond to grants from various federal offices, including strategy guides, previously funded proposals (as examples), templates for writing the grant, and much more.  And you get point-and-click web-based grant-writing software that allows you to literally point at what you want in your program, click an arrow, and a proposal with those program components appears in Word half-written for you.  It is a true breakthrough in the way federal grants will be written in this country.  As easy as buying a book at Amazon.com. Click here to be able to write federal proposals in just days.

Proposal Tune-Up Service

Our online Rapid Proposal Centers and Fundraising Learning Center give you the tools you need to write winning grant proposals in half the time, but you may want us to review what we've written. When you send us the proposal you've written using the ProposalMaster software and other web tools, our experts will review all the guidelines the funders have published. If helpful, we'll call the funders ourselves to verify our understanding of what they are looking for (we?d be happy to three-way call them with you so you can hear what they have to say to us); review your program design and match it with what we know tends to get funded and tends to work in that program area, review your budget to make sure it is in line with other proposals of that type; review your narrative to ensure that it is clearly written and accomplishes the tasks it must accomplish (here is where you will really appreciate our input); review your evaluation plan if you need one to ensure that the methods you are using will be effective and doable. In fact, we sift your proposal through our 85-point checklist covering all the key areas of effective grantsmanship.