Summer has a long and successful history of funded proposals. Her unique approach to proposal writing includes working in a collaborative fashion with your team to develop the project and align it with both federal funding needs and your organization’s individualized needs. She offers a comprehensive service, ensuring that all components for the application are collected in a timely fashion, properly formatted, and presented to you in the final application package.

Organizations who are deeply committed to their communities and their work often lack the time and resources to commit to important strategic development. Summer provides strategic planning services, which can easily be done in conjunction with proposal development. Projects are then selected and developed based on priority and need rather than chasing funding opportunities.

I provide practical, customized training in proposal development and grant writing for organizations, faculty, staff, and project teams. Workshops can address the full proposal-development process or focus on specific areas such as project design, needs statements, goals and objectives, logic models and theories of change, evaluation planning, budgets, proposal narratives, and reviewing funding opportunities. Trainings are hands-on, adaptable to different experience levels, and designed to help participants build both stronger proposals and greater internal grant-development capacity.

Offering general technical support regarding federal grants, reporting, compliance, government required outcome measures (such as GPRA), eligibility applications, and perspective grants, Summer generally responds within 24 to 48 hours by phone or email.