Example request · Content and docs · Nonprofits · 2 business days
Grant application draft for an after-school program
An after-school reading program's grant application drafted in two business days: six funder questions within word limits, an outcomes table, a $25,000 budget that adds up, and every unverified number flagged. Invented organization, real work.
FromFernwood Reading Project (example)
Regrant due in 9 days
community foundation grant due in 9 days. $25,000 for our after-school reading program. attached: my program notes (sorry, they're a mess), last year's numbers, and their six questions with the word limits.
can you draft it? I keep starting and stopping. the main thing is we had 31 kids on the waitlist all year because we don't have anyone to train tutors.
our ED will review and submit.
Attached: Program notes, last year's summary numbers, the funder's six questions and word limits, the draft budget.
FromAcrid Team
Regrant due in 9 days
Understood: a full draft answering the funder's six questions in their order and within their word limits, built around the waitlist and the coordinator who would clear it, with an outcomes table and a budget that adds to $25,000.
First, the fit check: we read the funder's guidelines against your notes. You fit (literacy, your county, your budget size, general operating allowed), so we go ahead. If you had not, we would have said so before writing a word and pointed you at a better one.
What we will send: the application draft (PDF, plus an editable copy for your edits), every answer on the form, the budget and a short budget narrative, an attachment checklist (990, board list, determination letter, budget), every number we could not confirm from your notes highlighted, and a before-you-submit guide: the deadline, who signs, and the exact steps in the funder's portal.
What we need: nothing to start. We will flag what needs your yes. You stay the applicant: your ED reviews, signs and submits from your own account.
Lands: two business days.
What came back · 2 business days
The result
A three-page application draft: all six funder questions answered within their limits, the waitlist as the case for funding, an outcomes table (last year vs this year, with how each is measured), a $25,000 budget that adds up with a line-by-line narrative, a sustainability answer, the attachment checklist, and a before-you-submit guide (deadline, signer, portal steps) with four unverified numbers highlighted for the director.
The files
- Fernwood-Reading-Grant-Draft.pdf PDF 128 KB
What it took
Checked the fit against the funder's guidelines first, rebuilt the program notes into the funder's structure, led with the 31 children on the waitlist instead of the mission statement, turned 'we help a lot of kids' into a measured outcomes table, wrote the budget narrative so every line ties to the coordinator and the tutors, and marked every claim a funder will hold the program to for the director to confirm. Nothing was invented: every fact came from the notes.
Usually next: The usual next request is the final edit after the director's review, or the same story cut down for the next two funders on the list.
Fernwood Reading Project is an invented organization; every name, number and phone detail in this sample is made up for it. The work, the structure and the files are real deliverables of the kind sent on Acrid Team, and we have prepared and submitted real grant applications for a veteran nonprofit (we never name clients). Drafted by AI from the facts you send, reviewed by a person; if a funder asks how the application was written, you will know exactly. No one can promise an award, and we never take a percentage of one.
Two quick questions
- How long does a grant application draft for an after-school program take?
- This one took 2 business days, counted from the moment we had what we needed. Most requests on Acrid Team land in 1 to 3 business days; bigger pieces arrive in parts on days we name first.
- Will it sound like us?
- It is built from your notes, your memo, the way your desk already talks. Anything we had to invent, a policy the notes did not cover, is marked for you to confirm before it goes to a new hire.
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