Grant Research and Pursuit

GLC ensures your pursuit of funding is intentional, competitive, and feasible. Informed by a clear programmatic strategy and grounded in organizational capacity — whether established or actively being built — we support organizations in researching and pursuing only those funding opportunities that align perfectly with their mission and readiness. We eliminate reactive grant chasing, focusing instead on building a sustainable, high-win portfolio. We provide targeted opportunity identification, interpretation, and complete proposal development.

The Challenge

Are Your Grant Pursuits Reactive, Uncompetitive, or Misaligned with Your Capacity?

Many organizations approach grant seeking reactively, chasing available dollars rather than intentionally pursuing funding that matches their long-term strategy and delivery capacity. This leads to a low return on investment for proposal development, high staff burnout, and awards that strain the organization's systems.

Common challenges that prevent competitive and strategic grant pursuit include:

Reactive Chasing: Opportunities are identified only days before the deadline or after the opportunity has dropped, forcing rushed, low-quality proposals that rarely align with the organization's core mission or established theory of change.

Capacity Misalignment: Winning grants that are too large, too complex, or that require systems the organization does not yet possess (e.g., specific M&E or subrecipient management structures), leading to immediate post-award stress and compliance risk.

Lack of Strategic Intelligence: Opportunities are found but not deeply interpreted against funder priorities, existing portfolio, or political signals, resulting in uncompetitive applications.

Fragmented Narrative: Proposal components (Needs Assessment, Program Model, Budget, Evaluation Plan) are developed in silos, failing to create a cohesive, compelling, and compliant narrative that scores highly under federal criteria.

Our Approach

From Readiness to Submission: Intentional Grant Portfolio Management

We treat the grant pursuit process as an integrated function of strategy and operations. Our structured, intelligence-led approach ensures every proposal you submit is built on a strong foundation of programmatic clarity and operational readiness.

Strategic Opportunity Identification & Vetting

We monitor federal trends, agency priorities, and conduct federal landscape analysis to identify Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that specifically align with your programmatic strategy, existing funding portfolio, and capacity. We rigorously vet each opportunity against a set of organizational readiness criteria—including staffing, financial capacity, and compliance level—to ensure the grant is feasible to win and execute. Beyond federal opportunities, we also identify other grant opportunities that can support your programmatic strategy.

Interpretation and Positioning

We don't just read the NOFO; we interpret it. We break down the funder's stated priorities, evaluation criteria, and unspoken signals, and outline key compliance and reporting considerations for post-award. This allows us to strategically position your organization and program model to directly address the funder's needs, ensuring the proposal is maximally competitive before writing even begins.

Integrated Proposal Development

Leveraging the clarity established in your Programmatic Strategy and the operational data from your Organizational Capacity-to-Performance Index, we work collaboratively with your team to build a proposal where every section flows seamlessly. This creates a cohesive narrative that links the Need, the Solution (Program Model), the Feasibility (Budget/Capacity), and the Impact (M&E Plan).

Compliance Check & Submission

We ensure the proposal aligns with all procedural and administrative compliance requirements of the NOFO. After signoff by Senior Leadership, we support the final submission process, including required forms, certifications, and portals, giving your team peace of mind that the application is fully compliant upon delivery.

The Results

The Measurable Value of Strategic Grant Pursuit

Increased Win Rate
A disciplined, intelligence-led process that ensures resources are focused only on the most aligned and competitive opportunities, leading to a higher return on investment.

Mission and Capacity Alignment
Eliminates scope creep and reactive chasing by vetting opportunities against both your strategic goals and your proven internal delivery capacity.

Time & Resource Efficiency
Reduces staff stress and maximizes the use of internal resources by providing a clear, milestone-driven process and a professionally managed submission cycle.

Funder Confidence
Submissions present a cohesive, compliant, and strategic narrative that clearly demonstrates both programmatic excellence and the institutional maturity required to manage a complex federal award.