Our personalized grants services bring customer service to grants acquisition. With our grant researcher always vetting grant opportunities and strategically doing outreach to funders, Empowered grants support is guaranteed to improve your funding strategy, applications, and programming innovation.
Grant Research, Vetting, and Prospecting Framework
Tailored to our clients and guaranteed to save you time, this includes vetting of all relevant grant opportunities including deadlines, funders, focus areas, and status updates on an ongoing basis. A prospecting framework will help you better understand your organizations’ identity and aligned grants strategy.
Programming Ideation
Trusted thought partnership to ideate new programming to expand grant opportunities with the objectives of diversifying program revenue, innovating programs, and enhancing community impact
Proposal Writing and Editing
Make your grant narrative stand-out with proposal writing or editing services that enhance your mission alignment and desirability to funders
Empowered Grants Opportunity Alerts
Coming soon! For clients engaging in ongoing services with Empowered, a monthly Grants Watch newsletter will introduce new grant opportunities generally applicable to our clients
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Example Projects
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Colorado Association for Bilingual Education (CO-CABE)
Secured program administration grant of $52k for CO-CABE to administer a free training program for eligible educators to earn a Culturally Linguistically Diverse Education Certificate (CLDE) to work with emerging bilingual students and receive a pay raise.
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Radical Arts Academy of Denver
Supported a developing arts based learning education non-profit to fund community programming, curriculum development, workforce development, and operations.
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Ongoing grants research and writing for a Hispanic dance company. Highlight acquisition includes a $15k grant for Equity in Arts Learning to enable programming for youth.
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The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary
Developed a personalized grants management system to aid process from start to finish including a prospecting framework to curate a grants strategy, vetting of top grants, program ideation, application writing, and application tracking.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
G R A N T S P R O S P E C T I N G F R A M E W O R K
This visualization presents the Empowered process for grants prospecting.
The “Empowered Grants Services” represent our ongoing work of researching and vetting grants. This keeps us on the pulse of evolving grants opportunities for organizations and individuals in the arts, education, and non-profits.
The “Client Specific Grant Services” are cultivated to you or your organization. After the client intake interview to understand your individual or organizational identity and needs, we will curate an approach from our “Menu of Grant Services.” All of our support will be specialized to match, amplify, and enhance your vision.