Grant Writing & Partnerships
Partnership support for organizations pursuing meaningful, fundable community impact.
Strong proposals are built before the writing begins. They require a clear need, a well-designed program, credible data, aligned partners, realistic outcomes, and an evaluation plan that funders can trust.
LMA helps public agencies, nonprofits, coalitions, schools, foundations, and community-based organizations develop competitive grant proposals and the partnerships needed to implement them well.
We bring evaluation expertise, program design experience, and practical facilitation to help clients move from opportunity to proposal and from proposal to implementation.
More than grant writing.
Strategy, evidence, and partnership alignment.
Grant opportunities often move quickly, but successful proposals depend on work that takes careful planning: defining the problem, selecting the right strategy, clarifying partner roles, identifying measurable outcomes, and showing how progress will be evaluated.
LMA supports the full proposal development process. We help clients interpret funding requirements, shape the program model, organize the evidence base, develop logic models, write compelling need statements, build evaluation approaches, and coordinate partner input.
Our goal is to help organizations submit proposals that are not only persuasive, but also practical, measurable, and ready to implement.
Be ready before the grant is released.
The strongest proposals are rarely built from scratch once a funding opportunity opens. They are built from organizations that already understand their needs, partners, program model, outcomes, and evidence.
How we support grant writing and partnerships
With decades of experience partnering with service delivery providers we help secure funding and provide grant funded evaluation services.
Grant Strategy & Proposal Development
We help clients assess funding opportunities, clarify proposal strategy, structure the narrative, develop competitive responses, and align the application with funder priorities.
Needs Statements & Evidence Base
We use data, research, community context, and stakeholder input to build strong need statements that clearly define the problem, population, service gaps, and opportunity for impact.
Program Design & Logic Models
We help translate ideas into fundable program models with clear goals, activities, outputs, outcomes, staffing roles, timelines, and implementation assumptions.
Evaluation Plans & Performance Measures
We develop evaluation plans, performance measures, data collection strategies, reporting frameworks, and continuous improvement approaches that strengthen proposals and support future implementation.
Helping organizations become fundable, not just funded.
A strong grant proposal should reflect a strong program design. LMA helps organizations prepare for funding by strengthening the elements funders look for: a clear theory of change, a defined population, documented need, realistic implementation plan, measurable outcomes, partner commitment, and credible evaluation strategy.
This work can happen before a funding opportunity is released, during proposal development, or after an award to support launch, reporting, and continuous improvement.
Ways we partner
LMA has worked with many types of organizations over the years, including many partners and subcontractors. Some of our best work has been done not just with a client organization, but with their partners and collaborators.
This support can look like administrative support, technical assistance, contract management, project management and other service functions. We also work to build collaborative, participatory sessions and community meetings that can lead to consensus.
What we can help develop
Depending on the opportunity and client needs, LMA can support:
Grant narratives
Data collection plans
Funder reporting frameworks
Evaluation plans
Performance measurement plans
Logic models
Program descriptions
Post-award evaluation
Letters of commitment or support