Community organizations do the real work. I write the grant narrative that makes funders understand why it matters.
One grant section, written for your organization, in one week.
You know your community. You know the need. What you don't always have is the time or the distance to translate that into the precise, compelling language that funders respond to.
I write narrative sections that are specific, grounded, and readable. Your work, in language that moves.
The sections that require the most judgment, not just formatting.
The story of what you're doing and why it matters. The section most grants live or die on.
Who is affected, how, and why this community specifically. Data woven with context.
Clear, measurable, and actually tied to your work -- not lifted from a template.
What happens after the grant ends. Funders ask. Most orgs struggle to answer well.
Why your organization is the right one to do this work, right now.
The prose that explains the numbers -- and makes the ask feel inevitable.
Organizations doing essential work who need a writer who understands the stakes.
Urban farms, food pantries, community gardens, seed libraries. I know this terrain.
Comms resilience, mutual aid infrastructure, community disaster planning. FEMA, USDA, state emergency management.
Libraries, community networks, digital literacy programs. AI literacy included.
Orgs with real programs and thin admin capacity -- where grant writing falls to whoever has an hour.
Send me the RFP or grant guidelines, which section you need, and any notes, data, or context you have. No intake form. Just tell me what you've got.
I'll follow up if I need to understand your community or program better. Then I write the section, in your voice, to funder specifications.
One round of revisions is included. Most sections land close on the first pass. You submit something you're proud of.
The AI Learning Partners proposal is a complete example of what I build.
A proposal suite for a library-based AI tutoring pilot in Omaha -- project proposal, governance structure, organizational charter, implementation plan, and parent communications. Written to submission standard, public domain, free to use.
If you want to see how I think about community need, program design, and funder language -- that's the work.
The full program proposal -- problem framing, solution architecture, budget, and scaling pathway.
Binding governance structure giving community members real authority over data and connectivity decisions.
Technical architecture and community control over every internet connection the system makes.
Plain-language explanation of how the program protects student privacy. Written for families, not administrators.
What mesh networking is, how it works, and why it matters when infrastructure fails.
This toolkit is free to use and adapt with attribution. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Send me the grant, the section, and whatever context you have. We'll figure out the rest from there.
anna@annarkey.ai