Empowering nonprofits: Insights and inspiration for mission-driven leaders

Federal Grant Writing, Grant Writing Support, Partner Plan

Five Reasons to Wait on Hiring a Grant Writer

This post by Grants Plus appeared on the Foundation Center’s Grantspace blog. I recently got a call from a board member of an organization with one paid staff person, less than a $200,000 operating budget, and no history of winning grants. This...

Client Spotlight: The Children’s Museum of Cleveland

When the staff and board of the Children’s Museum of Cleveland (CMC) sought to open a new history exhibit, Centuries of Childhood: An American Story, they recognized it was an opportunity to seek major federal grant dollars. Yet while CMC had...

Client Spotlight: Recovery Resources

Recovery Resources is a leading provider of mental health and addiction services in Northeast Ohio. Since 2007, the organization has called on Grants Plus to supplement their in-house development staff with expert grant writing and prospect research assistance. Most recently, the group...

California Workforce Development Board

This Foundation is focused exclusively on job training and opportunities for veterans....

Texas Workforce Commission

This Foundation is focused exclusively on job training and opportunities for veterans....

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity

This Foundation is focused exclusively on job training and opportunities for veterans....

Client Spotlight: EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute

How would your organization use $100 million? That question could be daunting to some nonprofit leaders, but not to Brandon E. Chrostowski, Founder of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute. He’s been turning big dreams into reality...

Client Spotlight: Beech Acres Parenting Center

Grants Plus has worked in partnership with Beech Acres Parenting Center since 2015 and marked numerous accomplishments along the way. But we had special reason to celebrate together in summer 2016. That was when Beech Acres announced a $1.1 million...

Cleveland’s WKYC Channel 3 spotlights Grants Plus for international award

Grants Plus was featured by Cleveland’s WKYC Channel 3 on the station’s website at wkyc.com and also on the daytime news program Live on Lakeside (March 3, 2016) for winning an international 2016 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award from the American...

Client Spotlight: Montessori Development Partnerships

Debbie Hershey Guren, President of Montessori Development Partnerships, hired Grants Plus to identify potential grant funders and provide strategic guidance for a $6.23 million capital campaign to establish Cleveland’s first Montessori charter school. The first priority was to find potential funders...

Clowes Fund

This Foundation funds within four Focus Areas of which one is Workforce Development. New grantees are only being accepted in two focus areas currently: Workforce Development and Immigrant Services....

Ralph C. Wilson Jr Foundation

This Foundation focuses within its specified geography and on four Areas of Focus, including "Preparing for Success" which includes workforce development programs and organizations. Open application process....