Grant & Proposal Writing

Who I Serve

Non-Profit Leaders

You are passionate about expanding your impact but you are juggling many responsibilities and your team is stretched thin. You know that securing funding is crucial for growth but finding the time and energy to do it with a stretched team is tough.

Social Entrepreneurs

You want to focus on growing your business and improving your product and service but the paperwork of fundraising, proposal writing and applying for startup competitions is so exhausting and feels like a chore.

My Services

Grant Writing

$667,000 raised so far from successful grant applications to foundations, government agencies and embassies in the areas of low-income families, seniors, caregivers, civic engagement and migrant workers.

  • Citizen Engagement Seed Fund - by the Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth (Singapore) for the development of a placemaking initiative to activate unused spaces to nurture more citizen changemakers

  • SG Strong Fund - by the Majurity Trust (Singapore) to run workshops that gather citizens with multi-sector stakeholders to pilot innovative solutions that improve digital inclusion for low-income families living in public rental flats, as part of the Digital Inclusion Listening Living Labs.

  • US Embassy Alumni Community Project Fund - by the US Embassy (Singapore) to support 3 multi-sector teams with prototyping their ideas to improve the lives of migrant workers, as part of the Migrant Workers Listening Living Labs.

  • Project Development Fund - from Singapore Pools (Singapore) to support the prototyping and roll-out of a gerontechnology product to ensure the safety of seniors living alone at home and reduce caregiver burden.

  • TRIE Neighborhood Lead Grant - by the New York Civic Engagement Commission (USA) to run a series of idea generation workshops in support of the citywide Participatory Budgeting Process and voter engagement deliverables to increase voter turnout for the City Council Elections of 2023.

  • Wellbeing of New York’s Children and Families Grant - by the United Neighborhood Houses (USA) to develop a 2-year family literacy program to address literacy needs of children and parents of low-income families in the Queensbridge, Ravenswood and Astoria Houses in New York City.

Proposal Writing

$340,000 secured so far from successful proposals to deliver consulting services and social impact workshops to private companies and institutes of higher learning.

  • ITQ for Polytechnic Forum 2021 - a 4-day virtual experience with the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Student Development Office, exposing 300 students across 5 polytechnics to various social issues and communities in Singapore, inspiring them to become changemakers.

  • ITT for Integrated Wellness Centre - issued by a statutory board in Singapore for stakeholder engagement to support the design of an integrated wellness centre for youths to receive mental wellness services.

  • Proposal for Consulting Services - to design a youth volunteering program for a large private company as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts.

  • Proposal for School Workshops - to design immersive workshops for students of various institutes of higher learning and secondary schools to learn about social issues and inspire them to become changemakers.

Concept Note Production

If you want to pilot new programs, I can help write a concept note to study its feasibility and suggest some smaller prototypes you can create before you invest your organization's money and time to it. Here is a link to two samples of concept notes I have written in the past:

Process

Project Scoping

We’ll have an initial meeting to clarify the purpose of the project, discuss what success would look like for you and the roles and responsibilities that we would each take.

Research & Information Gathering

I’ll ask you some questions to better understand your organization’s services, programs and unique value proposition so that I can craft a winning grant application or proposal. I’ll also conduct some research into the grant or opportunity you want to apply for, such as looking at their history of past awardees, to understand what they are looking for, so we can align our application to these elements.

Create First Draft

Based on the information gathered, I will conduct further research and write a first draft of the grant application or proposal, which may include the following sections:

  • Description of the social issue, its scale and articulate why someone should care

  • Existing interventions and the gaps that exist

  • Your proposed program / service and how it addresses the social issue

  • The unique value proposition of your program / service / business

  • Preparation of budget and financial projections

  • Articulation of funding narrative and return on investment

  • Proposed metrics to evaluate success of program / service

The final deliverables could be a Word document, PowerPoint presentation or any other collaterals that are required for by the grantor / funder for submission.

Review & Edits

Together, we’ll review the first draft and seek your inputs to refine it further if required, to move closer towards a final draft that can be submitted.

Submission

Once you are satisfied with the end product, you can submit the grant application or proposal and hopefully, we’ll receive a positive response!

Partnership Models

My clients typically work with me in either or both of these ways

Per Billable Hour

I’ll estimate a number of hours that I’ll need to complete the grant application, proposal or concept note and produce a timesheet for verification purposes.

% on Grant / Proposal Amount

We can agree on a % of the successful grant / proposal amount. This is typically used for projects with larger grant amounts beyond $100,000.

Connect with Me

If I could be of service to you or your organization, please click on the button below to connect with me and let’s have a chat!