Grant Writing Services

The Vendor is required to provide the city with “on-call” as-needed, professional grant writing services.
- Grant Writers to complete various “on-call” grant writing services, which will be distributed among the selected Grant Writers at the discretion of the City.
- Grant Writers with expertise in areas including, but not limited to: health and human services, youth and family services, education and learning domestic and family violence, crime, prisoner reentry, public safety, housing, economic development and sustainability, Information Technology.
- Developing overall grant outline; working with appropriate City department/staff and team to determine writing assignments, including providing a prediction of how much City staff time you expect will be needed at the beginning of each project.
- Preparing a strategic work plan for the development of the proposed program underlying the grant application, and for production of the application itself, including key dates, responsible personnel, and specific deliverables.
- Taking the lead in scheduling meetings, bringing together stakeholders and obtaining relevant information from multiple stakeholders.
- Editing draft proposals for consistency of messaging, ensuring integration of grant requirements and succinctness prior to City final review and submittal to funder
- Organizing facts, data, statistics and narrative collected and written as part of assigned projects, developing tabular or graphic data displays as appropriate, and making those items available to the City for future use.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year