Get In The Game™

Grants Office's "Get In The Game™" enables an organization interested in grants support to inexpensively develop an introductory grants support program. This Introduction approach allows your organization to take a phased approach to building an internal infrastructure for grants development.

Located in Rochester NY, Grants Office, LLC is a growing, privately held company. Established in 2000, Grants Office has been instrumental in helping clients understand and negotiate the grants process. Our Team has been successful in securing over $50 million in grants funding for clients. Company President and CEO, Michael Paddock has over 10 years of strategic grants development consulting experience.

Grants Office LLC. is a full-service provider of strategic grants development services for municipalities, nonprofit organizations and industry partners. Grants Office's services enable organizations to develop strategic directions and successfully implement a grant-seeking program in a cost effective, goal oriented manner. Specific services we provide include grant program research, grant writing, project development, training and support. Grants Office manages every aspect of the agency's grant development process.

Grants development teams consist of members from different functional areas, including grant writing, grant research, project management, account management and strategic planning. Grants Office's approach is based on collaboration and open communication between team members and clients. Our focus is on producing a strategic, robust grants development functions that reduce costs, lower risk, shrinks typical investment of time and resources and securing grant funding.

Grants Office Team

Senior Management

This Senior Strategist is responsible for ensuring the success of the grants development initiatives. As a consultant, the Strategist knows how to best develop and implement a grants development strategy within your organization. The Strategist will make sure that your program is headed in the right direction and will transition the day to day program operations to the rest of the project team.

Project Manager

The Project Manager will be responsible for developing the project timeline and distributing all project information. He/She will also serve as the primary point of contact throughout the project.

Grants Development Consultant

The Grants Development Consultant is an experienced grant researcher and is responsible for developing the grant-seeking plan in accordance with the client's goals.

Key Organizational Benefits

• Inexpensive way to initiate a grants development program
• Eliminate the need to tax internal resources for grants development
• A process that seamlessly and professionally integrates grants development into the organizations strategic planning initiatives
• Increase the awareness of the funding available to fit your organizations needs.
• Eliminates the need to hire grant writing staff which can be costly.

Client Involvement

• Provide proposed project needs and timelines to researchers.
• Willingness to collaborate with local organizations to improve the fundability of the grant proposal.
• Meet all programs specifications i.e. possible matching requirements for program budget.
• Provide grant writer necessary information about your organization, be available for frequent contact and review drafts and grant materials.
• Realize complexity of grant process and remain flexible with the process and funding timelines.

Scope of the Program

The Get In the Game™ program consists of 4 main phases. Each of these 4 areas is critical to establish an integrated Grants Development Program.

Needs Assessment - Grants Office will work directly with the client contact to assess their current project needs and available resources.

Research - With the information gained through the Needs Assessment phase. Grants Office will begin grants research. Grants Office will research funding opportunities that support the programmatic and institutional objective of the organization.

Grant Proposal Development - Based on the grant seeking plan that is created, a Grants Office Grants Writer will be assigned to work closely with the client contact to develop and submit one grant proposal for a predefined grant.

Grant seeking Plan - Once the research has been completed, the Grants Office research staff will work directly with members of the organization to streamline the research into a workable plan.

Pricing

Pricing varies according to the needs of the organization and complexity of the grant selected. Get in the Game™ packages range generally from $4,900 to $9,000 for a fully customized grant program. We encourage you to contact us to learn more about a package customized to suit your grant needs.