When I founded my grant writing consultancy back in 2015, I knew that I wanted to serve the small nonprofits that make a big impact in our communities.
Since then, I’ve seen my clients and students doing the most important work there is. They’re embedded in their communities and giving everything they have to their cause. Often this is work that shouldn’t even have to be done. They’re providing services that should already exist and advocating for causes that should be no-brainers.
My clients and students are most often organizations run by women of color and other BIPOC. Their programs address long-standing inequities, inequities in economic opportunity, education, access to basic services, mental health treatment, rights to justice, access to healthcare.
And yet, their work is underfunded.
They’re tired, often close to burnout. They’re chasing money to keep the doors open, the lights on, the mission going.
I’m honestly tired of seeing it. I’m tired of 90% of the funding out there going to the top 2.7% (in annual revenue) of nonprofits.
It makes me angry that 1. Our country’s history of racial, ethnic, economic, and gender inequity means these organizations even have to exist, and 2. That the entire nonprofit sector is influenced by the racist and sexist norms of philanthropy, meaning that folks doing the work have to prove themselves to foundations, for example, whose endowments are often built on oppression.
That’s the whole reason I got into teaching grant writing online – this is a system that needs to go. I want to equip organizations led by women of color to win grants and gain power, as we collectively dismantle these systems of oppression.
That’s why I continue to offer free grant writing training opportunities.
I want to help you get the grant funding you need and deserve. Until our country is an equitable place, your work is the best hope we have. And I thank you for doing it.
Free Grant Writing Training
You’re invited to “The 3-Step Framework for Getting Grant Funding.” Pick the time that works best for you, and I’ll see you there.
It’s an honor to support your work.
