The CEO

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Living Proof works with nonprofits, mission-driven organizations, community programs, churches and faith-based organizations, veteran-serving organizations, and select for-profit entities pursuing eligible funding opportunities. Each engagement begins by evaluating the organization’s goals, programs, capacity, and funding needs to determine the most appropriate strategy.

Grant readiness goes beyond having nonprofit status and a great mission. Funders may evaluate your organizational structure, programs, leadership, financial systems, budgets, measurable outcomes, data, policies, community need, and ability to successfully manage an award.

Living Proof can assess your current readiness, identify gaps, and help build the infrastructure necessary to pursue funding competitively.

Yes. Living Proof provides federal grant readiness, opportunity analysis, proposal development, and federal grant writing services. Federal opportunities require a higher level of organizational readiness, compliance, program design, budgeting, documentation, and attention to published evaluation criteria.

We also provide federal grant management and reporting support to help organizations navigate post-award responsibilities.

A funding strategy is a customized roadmap for how your organization will pursue and diversify funding rather than simply applying for available grants.

Living Proof evaluates your programs, funding goals, organizational capacity, eligibility, and potential revenue sources to develop a strategic pipeline of aligned opportunities. Depending on the organization, this may incorporate private and corporate grants, federal or state funding, sponsorships, philanthropic partnerships, capital funding, and other appropriate revenue sources.

Yes. Living Proof offers post-award grant management and reporting support, including performance and deliverable tracking, budget-to-actual monitoring, documentation systems, reporting coordination, outcome measurement, compliance monitoring, and closeout preparation.

The specific scope is customized according to the requirements of each award.

No ethical grant professional can guarantee an award because final funding decisions are made by independent government agencies, foundations, corporations, and other funders.

Living Proof focuses on what can be controlled: identifying strong funding alignment, developing competitive proposals, meeting application requirements, strengthening program design, presenting measurable outcomes, and submitting well-supported funding requests with integrity.

Our goal is not to chase every available opportunity but to ensure alignment with the funder prior to any application is drafted and submitted.
This serves to protect your time and return on investment.

No. Living Proof does not provide grant writing services on a commission or percentage of award basis.

As a professional grant writer, I follow the Global Grant Writers Association Code of Ethics, which guides my commitment to ethical grant development, professional integrity, transparency, and responsible fundraising practices.

Grant development requires research, strategy, program development, writing, budgeting, and compliance work regardless of the funder’s final decision. Because funding decisions remain entirely with the funder, services are provided through established project fees, packages, or ongoing contracts rather than contingent compensation.

This approach protects the integrity of the grant process and ensures that professional compensation is based on the work performed, not on the amount of funding requested or awarded.