Empowering nonprofits: Insights and inspiration for mission-driven leaders

Grants Plus featured in Crain’s Cleveland Business

Crain’s Cleveland Business featured Grants Plus and interviewed President Lauren Steiner for the firm’s track record helping nonprofit organizations across the country secure hard-to-raise grant dollars. “We are setting the standard for the sector when it comes to higher quality grant writing.”...

Grant Prospect Research

Four Truths About Grants that Board (and Staff!) Members Should Know

“Just get a grant!” Have you heard this before from a board member or senior staff leader? This statement—though well-intentioned—often suggests that the speaker may misunderstand the grant seeking process and assume getting a grant is easier said than done....

Hallmarks of Effective Grant Writing
Part 1: Tailoring the Proposal

There’s a saying in the world of grant seeking: “If you’ve met one funder, you’ve met one funder.” Part of what makes grant seeking challenging is that every funder wants something different. The essence of what they want is the same—what...

Federal Grant Writing, Grant Writing Support

Tips for Finding Grant Makers Most Likely to Fund Your Nonprofit

You just know it: there is grant funding out there for your nonprofit. The question is how to find it? The answer is by taking a strategic approach to identifying grant opportunities. We offer you these tips to efficiently and...

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...