Fundraising and Fundraising Strategy
After analyzing your project, we develop and prioritize a prospect list. Our approach to each potential funder is based in a carefully crafted strategy, ensuring attentive and thoughtful consideration of the project. If you are already in the process of undertaking your own fundraising efforts, we can provide guidance and advise you in how to shape your funding inquiries and proposals.

Project design
We know what funders want. We help you shape your project so that it meets funder expectations and guidelines—without compromising editorial or creative integrity. This is our business.

• We work with project teams to articulate goals, learning themes, and objectives, as appropriate to the project's target audience.
• Drawing from our pool of experts, we help teams to integrate a project's educational and creative elements in a way that supports audience appeal and comprehension.
• We help identify and recruit content advisory boards, core experts, and content specialists.
• Many projects are greatly enhanced by additional components that extend reach and impact, ensuring the broadest possible audience. We help to identify and coordinate collaborative partnerships with educational organizations and institutions, helping our clients create outreach, public engagement, and educational elements for their projects, as required by funders and distributors.

Project management
Funder communications: In our fundraising capacity, we act as liaison to your prospective funders. For grants you have already received, we also offer grants-management services involving writing and submitting quarterly reports, fielding funder inquiries, and making sure that funders continue to feel satisfied with their investment in your project and are predisposed to investing in the next one.

Component and partnership coordination: For projects with educational components such as outreach programs, we can advise your team on how to build these components so that they are mutually compatible and work integrally to complement and enhance the "core engine" of your project, whether it is a television series, a film, or an exhibition. We help you make connections with component partners and manage your partnerships to achieve the best possible funding and creative outcomes.

Proposal writing and editing
Proposal preparation and submission is a time- and task-intensive process requiring careful planning and management. Our proposals build a concise description of the project and a compelling case for support tailored to a funder's mandates and goals.

Technical Assistance
• Preparing budgets
• Interpreting guidelines
• Analyzing fundraising protocols
• Navigating the National Science Foundation Fastlane and other electronic proposal submission systems.

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