Spectrum Grant Lab (SGL) partners with clients to design, prepare, and submit applications
for federal, state, and private grant funding. SGL offers the following services:
- Designing and conducting needs assessments
- Facilitating project design / planning activities
- Facilitating development of key partnerships between clients and community, state,
and national organizations
- Writing grant proposals (often colaboratively with clients' in-house grant-writing
staff)
- Submitting grant proposals
- Managing post-submission communication with funding agency staff
SGL writers hold degrees in technical writing, journalism, communication, and instructional
technology. Since 1997 SGL writers have developed proposals that have secured over
$200 million in Federal funding. We have helped clients submit applications to the
following grant competitions:
- Arts in Education (ED)
- Advanced Placement Incentive (ED)
- Advanced Placement Test Fee (ED)
- Carol M. White Physical Education (ED)
- Community Based Abstinence Education (HHS)
- Communities Empowering Youth (HHS)
- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) (Justice)
- Congressional Academies (ED)
- Early Childhood Educator (ED)
- Early Reading First (ED)
- Elementary Counseling (ED)
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ED)
- Full Service Community Schools (ED)
- Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (ED)
- Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (ED)
- Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) (Justice)
- Healthy Marriage Initiative (HHS)
- Improving Literacy Through School Libraries (ED)
- Magnet Schools Assistance (ED)
- Parent Information and Resource Centers (ED)
- Safe Schools / Health Students (ED/HHS)
- Services to Refugees (HHS)
- Smaller Learning Communities (ED)
- Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Children with Disabilities (ED)
- Toyota Family Literacy Grant (Toyota)
- Transition to Teaching (ED)
- Teaching American History (ED)
- Well-Integrated Screening & Evaluation for Women(WISEWOMAN)(CDC)
In addition to these projects, Spectrum grant writers actively seek new grant competitions
to address the changing needs of their clients.
