Grant Writing Services

The Vendor is required to provide grant writing services for as-needed.
- 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.
- Requirement:
• Developing overall grant outline; working with appropriate city department and 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.
• Ensuring that all required components of each proposal are included in submission; ensuring adherence to grant evaluation criteria, and ensuring each entire grant package is timely and correctly prepared in accordance with the requirements and restrictions of its respective funders’ portal and technical submission requirements.
• Providing budget guidance and justifications in alignment with city policies and personnel guidelines and in conformance with grant solicitation requirements.
• 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.
• Fees and costs, although the city is not bound to select the grant writer who proposes the lowest fee.
• The city reserves the right to negotiate fees with the selected individual or firm.