The Grant Writer's Studio
Draft Grants that Score — and WIN!
A rigorous, practitioner-built course that teaches nonprofit and education professionals how to write fundable grant proposals — from dissecting an RFP to submitting a scored, reviewer-ready application. No fluff, no templates: just proven strategy and real feedback.
"Whether you are writing municipal, state, or federal grants, every point on that grant's Technical Review Form is either earned or surrendered. My goal is to make sure you earn every single one."
— Mikael Davis
What you'll be able to do
- Decode any RFP and extract eligibility rules, scoring criteria, and formatting requirements before writing a word
- Build a persuasive needs statement integrating local data, national context, and disparity evidence
- Write fundable, measurable objectives that specify population, percentage target, timeframe, and baseline
- Design a logic model and operations plan tied directly to documented participant needs
- Construct a compliant, cost-effective budget with a three-way narrative crosswalk
- Conduct a pre-submission peer review using a scored rubric — earned versus deducted points
What's inside
9 modules · 33 lessons · Personalized lesson path
Mission Alignment & RFP Mastery
A completely dissected RFP before any design decision
The Reviewer's Mindset: Scoring and Specificity
Radical specificity and zero-inference writing
Building a Persuasive Needs Statement
A data-rich, locally grounded argument
Transforming Data Into Narrative and Program Response
Every stat performing a function toward a response
Evidence-Based Program Design and Logic Models
A fully specified logic model tied to documented needs
Writing Fundable, Measurable Objectives
Ambitious, baseline-defended, fundable objective statements
Operations Plan and Evaluation Design
A management and evaluation plan proving capacity
Budget Development and the Three-Way Crosswalk
A compliant budget with narrative, budget, and objectives aligned
Peer Review, Pre-Submission, and Final Submission
A reviewer-ready, on-time submission
Is this you?
First-time grant writer
Handed grant-writing duties with little guidance — needs a rigorous, from-scratch process she can trust.
College access coordinator
Writes Title IV and TRIO-adjacent proposals and wants the discipline to move from competitive to consistently funded.
Nonprofit program director
Designs strong programs but loses points on paper — needs to translate real capacity into a document that scores.
Workforce development manager
Pursues state and federal workforce grants and needs a repeatable process that holds up across funders.
Aspiring grants professional
Wants to grow into a dedicated grants role and needs practitioner-level training — not theory.
Executive director wearing all hats
Grant writing lands on her desk at a small nonprofit — she needs competitive, compliant submissions without a dedicated team.
Frequently asked
Yes — if you're willing to do the work. The course opens with mission alignment and RFP fundamentals that assume no prior grant-writing experience. Every concept is built up from plain language before it's applied to a real proposal section. That said, this is not a soft introduction: you'll be expected to read RFPs carefully, work with real data, and write sections that could actually be submitted. First-timers who bring seriousness will thrive.
Begin The Grant Writer's Studio
Start with the first free module — risk free. 33 lessons, personalized lesson path, cancel anytime.
Start With the First Free Module · $147/mo
