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Grant Writing Activities
In 2007 dHA launched a new grant writing arm, headed up by Dianna Miller,
in response to client requests for assistance in grant writing. Ms. Miller
has two years of experience as a grant writer for the City of Bridgeport
where she raised close to $2 million in funds. These grants primarily
focused on economic development, environmental and cultural arts initiatives.
She also has three years of experience as a grantwriter at a community
health center giving her a unique perspective on the needs of Connecticut's
cities and working class residents. Ms Miller offers two types of grant
support through dHA.
Grantwriting: If a client contacts us and has a specific
grant they would like to apply for Ms Miller will meet with them to discuss
the grant solicitation and their program plan. After that meeting Ms.
Miller will develop a proposal including a time frame and proposed cost
for having dHA's assistance in responding to the grant. At that point
the client can determine whether or not to bring dHA on to aid in the
grant writing process.
Grantseeking: Many of our clients would like to apply for
grants to provide support for existing or expanding programs, however
they are unsure of how to do so. Given this need dHA offers grantseeking.
Again Ms. Miller will meet with the client to determine the types of services
they would like to get grants for and develop a plan based on those needs
for grantseeking. Generally we recommend that clients invest in grantseeking
for 3-6 months. In that time Ms Miller will dedicate a set number of hours
to investigating potential funders and when appropriate conduct research
on the types of programs funded historically and in some instances contact
funders to discuss the potential of providing support for the types of
efforts the client has prioritized. Ms Miller may develop letters of intent
on the client's behalf. Once a potential funding source has been identified
Ms Miller will (as above) develop a proposal for the client on the hours
of her time required to develop the proposal for the client for their
consideration. "The nice part of grantseeking is that it offers clients
the one on one technical assistance they need to begin the grant process".
"Clients may decide to combine both of these offerings into a unique
grantseeking/grant writing package that will offer a good start of where
to seek grants along with some writing to smaller foundations including
some letters of inquiry."
For more information on dHA's Grant Writing/GrantSeeking services please
contact dmiller@dhassoc.net
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