Federal Grant Readiness Checklist
Nineteen questions we work through before recommending an organization pursue a federal award. SAM.gov, financial systems, match capacity, evaluation.
Open the toolMost of the organizations we work with do not have a capacity problem — they have a clarity problem. They know they need more donors; they do not know which lever to pull first, or what the math looks like on the other side. These are the diagnostics we run.

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The 18-question readiness assessment we run before taking on a new engagement. Walk through it yourself — it tells you where the gaps are and what to fix first.
Coming soonReverse-engineer your revenue goal into the number of donors you need at each gift level. The hardest part of goal-setting is seeing the gap between the goal and the current file.
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