Grant Writing Mentorship & Playbook for a Volunteer Nonprofit Team

By the end of this project we expect the pro bono consultant to deliver grant writing training and a documented blueprint that builds lasting grant writing capacity within our all-volunteer nonprofit team — ensuring every application we submit is competitive, funder aligned, and professionally crafted regardless of which volunteer produces it.

The specific deliverables are:

1. Grant Writing Skills Assessment: An honest evaluation of our current volunteer writers — identifying their strengths, gaps, and the specific areas of grant writing craft that need the most development before they can produce competitive applications independently.

2. Grant Writing Training: A structured, documented training program designed specifically for volunteer nonprofit writers operating in a virtual, asynchronous environment. The program covers:

How to read and interpret grant guidelines
Funder research and alignment strategy
Narrative structure and persuasive storytelling for grant applications
Budget justification and financial narrative writing
Logic models and program outcome framing
Common mistakes that cause applications to be rejected

3. A Grant Writing Blueprint: A comprehensive, reusable grant writing playbook that any current or future volunteer writer can follow independently. The blueprint covers:

Step by step application process from guidelines review to final submission
Funder specific writing approaches for foundations, government funders, and corporate giving programs
Narrative templates and structural frameworks for different grant types
A quality control checklist every application passes through before reaching the Executive Director for review and submission

4. AI Integration Guide A documented framework showing how our volunteer writers work alongside Marcus, our AI grant drafting agent — what Marcus produces, what the human writer refines, and what the quality control review covers before submission.

Organization Mission

To empower individuals with facial differences to achieve their full potential by providing support, resources, and advocating for a more inclusive society where every face is valued and respected. Our mission is to help alleviate the issue of food insecurity in our communities.