Small Group

Funded with Ease

A 4-month intensive to power up your grants team to exceed your annual fundraising goal.

Next English cohort begins June 4
Next
Spanglish cohort begins Sept 10

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Click here to listen to the PREVIEW MASTERCLASS:
The 5 steps that will win you grants - and how to do them just right for your NGO

Do you feel...

  • Confused why your proposals are being rejected when you KNOW your projects change lives? 

  • Unsure HOW to write proposals that will get accepted (what to share, what language to use, how to develop indicators and more)?

  • Successful at your individual fundraising and want to make sure you rock the grant writing you are ready to start?

  • Frustrated by the high cost of outsourcing your grant writing?

  • Distracted by fundraising and really wanting to focus on your programs instead?

Imagine...

Feeling confidence and ease doing grants.

  • Being clear on both the what and the how of building donor relationships and writing grants. 

  • Having high-converting materials that make donors say “Yes!” to funding your work. 

  • Having done-for-you resources to shortcut your path to getting funded. 

  • Knowing which institutional funders are the perfect fit for your organization and exactly how to engage each one. 

  • Having the skills and resources to find even more funders for your work in the future.

  • Being part of a community that supports you along the way.

  • Having a powerful process in place to turn your current funders into multi-year funders.

  • … and, at the end of the day, having the donor relationships and the grants secured to achieve your mission.

Funded with Ease is all about getting a fundraising insider expert on your side so your in-house team can exceed its annual fundraising goal and make the world a better place without working themselves to the bone.

Over 4 months, we will work together to build your grants team’s critical knowledge, tools, systems and hands-on experience. Your team will get powered up quickly so you can get your organization fully funded while ensuring your team’s sanity (and even happiness!).

By the end, you can have a list of perfect-fit funders with next steps to reach out to each one, a best-in-class grants package, tailored proposals already out the door, and be engaging your current funders so you continue bringing in more and more grant funding for years to come.

Capping registration at just 10 organizations, this is a unique opportunity for your organization to get tailored and hands-on support from Shoshana and become part of a community that can support your fundraising into the future. (We may even have a mini dance party and take a bunch of deep breaths along the way!)

“By working with Shoshana, we captured well over $300,000 last year, surpassing our goal by almost $150,000.”

-Natün Guatemala

What you will get

  • LIVE training

    Totaling 12 hours, held biweekly

  • Proposal development materials

    Easy worksheets, templates and done-for-you materials

  • Hands on support

    And personalized feedback from me on all your funder research, proposals and supporting materials!

Who it is for

Funded with Ease is designed for NGOs anywhere in the world that are legally registered, have programs running and have an annual budget between US$100,000 and US$1.5M.

Most participants in the intensive are Executive Directors, single- or multi-person fundraising teams and/or communications staff.

How it works

This intensive is designed to fit seamlessly into your daily fundraising work.

You already have to research new funders, build relationships with them and write proposals, right? This intensive gives you the tools and feedback to do each of these things REALLY SUCCESSFULLY. And whenever you hit a bump or are unsure of the next right step, I will be right there to guide you.

We’ll meet as a group every other week to map out your action steps for the week and give you the skills for success. These videocalls will be recorded, so you can share them with any team members who aren’t able to join live or who join your grants team later. 

After each call, you will put into practice what you have learned, receiving my hands-on support to your organization so you can make big, concrete steps towards your funding goal. 

I will also be available via email in between our sessions to troubleshoot, answer any questions and lead you powerfully through creating the systems and developing the skill sets necessary to hit your funding goals. You’ll have my support ongoing for the 4 months.

The Get Funded with Ease method:

GET CLARITY

1. Identify your perfect-fit funder 

Learn how to find the funders that will be excited to fund you, will champion your work and can be your partners over the long term. Identify what will make those funders say yes to YOU.

GET DIRECTION

2.  Create your target list of 25 perfect-fit funders 

Learn where to look, what to look for (that “6th sense of fundraising”) and how to reach out to potential funders so they say yes to you. Then, create your target list. 

GET EQUIPPED

3. Create a best-in-class grants package

Learn the secrets of grants that get read and approved. Then, develop a powerful grants package and presentation that you will be able to share with a limitless number of funders with minimal extra effort. 

GET RESULTS

4.  Get your proposals out the door 

Start sending tailored proposals off to funders so that invitations and funding can start coming in!

GET MORE FUNDING WITH LESS RESTRICTIONS

BONUS:  Get donors to keep funding you

Learn how to engage your donors, tell your story and report in a way that converts your funders to multi-year donors and catalyzes your impact to a whole new level.

Schedule for live trainings:

Next English cohort begins June 4 (Sessions are Tue 10am ET: 6/4, 6/18, 7/9, 7/30, 8/13, 9/10, 10/1)
Next Spanglish* cohort begins Sept 10 (Sessions are Tue 1pm Mexico City time: 9/10, 10/1, 10/15, 10/29, 11/19, 12/10, 1/7)

Each session will be between 1.5 and 2 hours long

All sessions will be recorded, so if you cannot make a session you can submit any questions in advance and watch the recording after.

*The Spanglish cohort will have all trainings in Spanish, and specific group participation and activities will be in English so you can practice speaking about your work in English.

Here is what is possible for your organization by the end of the 4-month intensive: have the systems set up, the skills in place and the strategies to continue bringing in more and more grant funding for years to come.

Plus done-for-you materials, templates and best in class examples to shortcut the path!

  • Top 5 resources for grants research

  • Grants research template

  • Grants tracker template

  • Cold outreach templates

  • Tips for converting multi-year donors

  • Script to explore follow-on funding

  • Letter of interest & Proposal templates

  • Pitch deck template

  • Best in class proposal example

  • Grants team calendar

  • Grants team KPIs

  • Reporting template

- Erin Mooney, Executive Director
Natün Guatemala

"Shoshana is a powerhouse within the granting landscape and has truly transformed our grant capacity as an organization.

She is strategic, deeply experienced, and beyond effective in helping organizations identify funding opportunities and make their case in a powerful way. I cannot recommend her highly enough."

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Funded with Ease asks you to commit to your fundraising goal. For this, we recommend at least one person dedicate at least 2 days a week to attending the calls with me and doing the work. This level of commitment is necessary for any grant writer to be successful at grant writing, be it on their own or with the support of a program like this.

  • We know that grant writing is a team sport, and we want to make sure your entire grant writing team gets to participate.

    We are also committed to ensuring all participants can be deeply heard and supported. For this reason, we are capping registration at 10 organizations, and each organization can have up to 3 team members participate.

    We recommend these 3 people be: Executive Director; Grants lead; supporting grants person.

    If your grants team is more than 3 people, not to worry! We will record all sessions so the rest of your team doesn’t miss a second. Then, you can do your weekly “homework” with your whole team before you send it to me for feedback.

    If you would more than 3 team members to participate, reach out and let´s chat about making that possible.

  • Yes! The intensive is structured so that the biweekly trainings and Q&A are done in a group format, and then alternating weeks from that you get my personalized support just for your organization. During this personalized support, I give you feedback on everything you are working on, answer any additional questions you have, and even get my hands dirty making edits.

  • Proposals are approved based on the believability of the applicant, the competition, the technical correctness of the proposal and the story it tells. I get you set on, and am expert at, the last two. The first is up to you (though I will certainly let you know if I spot areas for strengthening here) and the second is unknowable. What I can guarantee is this: if you put in the work to participate in the training and coaching calls and do the homework, by the end of the 4-months you will have submitted multiple proposals and will be well on your way to achieving, and potentially even exceeding, your fundraising goals.

  • There is no better time than now to invest in the organizational future you want. Click here to book a call to get you clear on your fundraising goals, uncover anything holding you back, and map out your next steps to exceed those goals. The call is free, so you have nothing to lose! And at the end of that call, I will be able to powerfully advise you on what fundraising investment, if any, makes sense for your NGO right now.

    Find a time on my calendar here for this free Get Funded Discovery Call.

  • Most NGOs have a limited budget, and it’s normal for investing in your fundraising to feel like a stretch. But here’s the thing: investing in support dramatically increases your chances of hitting your fundraising goals in the long run. Most likely, if you are reading this, your current strategy has not gotten you all the way to your goal. And if you continue on this same path, you will continue to get the same results you have been getting. Investing in your grants team is the fastest way to change that.

    Our pricing is designed to be accessible AND we have multiple payment plan options to fit your budget.

    I am also happy to do a free, initial strategy session with you. During this session, we will design a simple strategy for you to approach your board and current individual or institutional donors to ask them for the additional resources for this investment. Most funders will be thrilled to support you building your organizational capacity this way! Find a time on my calendar here and select Get Funded Discovery Call (Free).

Are you ready?

Still unsure?

Chances are you probably know in your heart if this is what your organization needs. If you've gotten this far, you can be almost certain it is. But if you have a question or want to be 100% sure, let's talk.

  • "With the Perfect Fit Funder checklist, we are now more precise and confident in approaching donors. It gave us a clear idea about our path to fundraising. Thank you!”

    Halima Tus Sadia,
    Spreeha

  • "Shoshana´s support has been exactly what we needed to put our growth plans on paper, identify which funders are right for us as a refugee shelter, and quickly learn the “how” of getting grants. We landed a new funder in the first 3 months!"

    Ricardo Peña,
    Hospitalidad y Solidaridad

  • "Shoshana will be an asset to any organization– both in her technical contributions as well as in forging a high performing team. She is focused, results oriented and has excellent communications skills.”

    Vashtie Dookiesingh,
    Inter-American Development Bank

  • “I count myself lucky to have met Shoshana— I learned SO much from her! These results are blowing my mind.”

    Audrey Jones,
    Fundraising Consultant