How We Can Help
Located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the CESA 6 Grant Center offers competitive education-related grant proposal development services. Our clients include public and private school districts and non-profit community-based organizations that serve children, youth, and families. Our service area extends beyond our local community as we have helped organizations across the country secure millions in discretionary funding.
Over the past decade, grant funding has become increasingly difficult to win, yet schools and nonprofits have less capacity to manage the grant process. We can help you find funding opportunities and increase your odds of winning a grant by writing competitive proposals that thoughtfully present your ideas to the right funding source. Since opening its doors in 1994, the CESA 6 Grant Center has won more than $100 million in competitive grant awards.
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Let us help you secure funding to address identified challenges and advance your organization's strategic goals with our effective and efficient grant proposal development process.
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The process of securing grant dollars is not simply budget relief, but rather clarifying and documenting critical challenges and then working together to develop strategies that will address those needs within parameters of a specific competitive grant program. We then package those strategies into compelling, straightforward grant proposals.
- Grants are essentially "seed money" that allow grantees to experiment with new solutions to longstanding problems. Many projects funded through grant-writing initiatives also serve as models to other districts experiencing similar challenges.
- Over the last decade, grants have become increasingly difficult to win, yet schools and nonprofits have less capacity to find funding opportunities and write grant proposals. This is where we can help.
At the CESA 6 Grant Center, our expertise is in the K-12 arena, as we typically partner with schools and community-based organizations that serve school-age youth. We have worked with diverse, multi-agency teams to develop grant projects for a range of focus areas including drug and violence prevention, school climate and safety, school security and emergency management, environmental education, mental health services, literacy support, school counseling, charter schools, physical education, STEM, farm-to-school, career and college readiness/tech ed, after-school programming, special education, and regional food hub development.
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The CESA 6 Grant Center offers the following professional services:
- Grant landscape monitoring, analysis, and matchmaking: By staying abreast of the latest public and private funding prospects, we identify timely and relevant opportunities targeted to clients’ specific needs, goals, and interests.
- Guided project development: We provide leadership in project development by working with client teams to design projects that address funding source criteria as well as your identified needs. We research and suggest evidence-based practices and collaborative partnerships that strengthen the proposal; formulate timelines, goals and objectives, budgets, evaluation strategies, and sustainability plans; and we share tools and processes that streamline the entire planning and project development process.
- The writing and submission of competitive proposals: CESA 6 Grant Center writers use information gathered during guided project development to create a competitive and compelling grant proposal. This proposal will then be submitted to client staff for comment and review, and revisions will be made by the grant writer. When the proposal is complete, writers will prepare it for submission to the funding source.
- Ongoing Consultation: Grant writing can be a multi-year, multi-submission process. If a proposal is not funded, your grant writer will identify problem areas, based upon reviewer comments, and work with you to make changes for future submissions. We also help revise budgets and develop written responses that address questions from grant officers.
- Evaluation and editing: We also assist our clients in evaluating and editing proposals that their staff members have written, large or small.
The CESA 6 Grant Center offers flexible service packages and competitive rates. Please contact us for current information on pricing and packages offered. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how we can help you win funding for projects that help advance your strategic goals!
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"In working with the CESA 6 Grant Center on several multi-million dollar grants, our writer's coordination, leadership and flexibility were exceptional. Grant Center writers possess the unique blend of facilitating others work by keeping them engaged while at the same time coordinating all the various parts to an application assuring that all tasks are accomplished. If they are not directly familiar with a grant opportunity, they dig in and soon become the knowledgeable experts. I recommend the CESA 6 Grant Center to lead any grant application, big or small."
- Joseph Sheehan, former Superintendent
Sheboygan Area School District
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