12-Week Grant Accelerator: Spring/Summer 2026 | Get Grant-Ready Before Fall Cycles Open | Train Your Leadership Team

12-WEEK CAPACITY BUILDING ACCELERATOR

Team-Wide Capacity. Permanent Infrastructure. Institutional Funding.

DETAILS:

• 🎟️ Small Team 2–3 (Lunch Track): $8,500
• 🎟️ Full Team 4–6 (Lunch Track): $12,000 

• FORMAT: 12 weekly live 1-hour lunch sessions on Zoom + on-demand instructional videos (30–60 min/week)
• TRACKS: 🎟️ Lunch Track (private team training)
• COHORT MIX:  Organization-specific
• PREREQUISITE: Grant Readiness (Self) Assessment 
• OPTIONAL: If you want this training but prefer the solo version, versus the team, then take the evening solo leader track. The description differ but the training is exactly the same. 🎟️ Evening Track | Single Learner | Solo Learner

What Is This?

The 12-Week Grant Accelerator is the full walk-with-you experience — it's the equivalent of hiring a consultant on retainer but the knowledge and capability remains inhouse. 

Together we build capacity and infrastructure:

When individuals leave an organization, knowledge walks out the door. The 12-Week Accelerator permanently embeds strategic capacity across your entire leadership team — so what you build stays with the organization, not just with one person.

Who This Is For

• Leadership teams ready to embed grant capacity permanently across the organization
• Teams looking to learn efficiently without long meetings — lunch-hour format keeps work flowing
• Teams frustrated with knowledge living in one person’s head
• Organizations $500K–$2M+ preparing for major foundation funding
• Teams that want learning inside their own organization

Why You Need This

Your grant strategy is only as strong as your team’s capacity. If knowledge lives with one person, your organization is at risk every time someone leaves. This Accelerator ensures learning stays in-house, scalable, and actionable. Your team will watch, learn, and apply each week, building permanent infrastructure and grant-readiness that grows with your organization.

How the Lunch Track Works

On-Demand Video Library (30–60 min/week)

• Watch lessons at your own pace: templates, frameworks, tools

• Instruction happens anytime — no meeting fatigue

1-Hour Live Lunch Sessions (Zoom)

• Facilitated discussion, alignment exercises, and Q&A

• Troubleshoot challenges and ensure every team member is on the same page

Optional Homework

• Implement weekly lessons into programs, budgets, or existing proposals

• Submit small deliverables for feedback if desired

• Feature: Learn when it works for your schedule. 

What You Will Build

What You Will Build & Leave With 

Phase 1 — Foundation (Weeks 1–4) | Organizational Intelligence

• Organizational Audit: Complete review of programs, budgets, past proposals, KPIs, and outcomes

• Strategic Funder Map: Prioritized list of 2–3 funders with alignment notes and application readiness checklist

• Capacity Narrative: Fully articulated organizational “why” with embedded data

• Deliverables:

  • Grant Readiness Results — haves vs. needs

  • Custom organizational BODY OF KNOWLEDGE/ repository for all grant-related data

  • Step-by-step gap analysis template for ongoing self-assessment

Phase 2 — Program Design (Weeks 5–7) | Funder-Aligned Program Infrastructure

• Logic Model + Theory of Change: Complete visual + written mapping of inputs → activities → outcomes → impact

• Activity Alignment: Document showing how every program component supports measurable outcomes

• Budget & Resource Alignment: Impact-aligned budgets with narrative justification, integrated into the organizational Body of Knowledge

• Deliverables:

  • Funder-Aligned Program Blueprint (repeatable for any new program)

  • Budget template linked to outcomes

  • Internal process checklist for program evaluation

Phase 3 — Impact Theory (Weeks 8–9) | Data-to-Storytelling Mastery

• Outcome Data Storytelling: Transform raw data into human-centered impact narratives

• Peer + Expert Feedback Loop: Refine 1-pager and narrative for clarity and funder-readiness

• Deliverables:

  • Impact Narrative (1-page + expanded version) ready for proposals, presentations, and reporting

  • Peer-reviewed storytelling framework for future programs

  • Data-to-Storytelling template to plug in any program results

Phase 4 — Proposal Build (Weeks 10–12) | Submission-Ready Proposals & In-House Capability

• Tailored Proposal Draft: Aligned to a real funder RFP

• Peer + Expert Review: Real-time feedback and edits

• Final Submission Prep: Checklist, compliance review, final polish

• Deliverables:

  • Submission-ready proposal for at least one funder

  • Proposal library embedded in your organization’s Body of Knowledge

  • Permanent internal workflow for future proposals

  • Optional 30-min 1:1 strategy consult with Stephanie

Outcome / Perpetual Capacity:

• Team-Wide Grant Competency: Every participant can confidently create, review, and submit proposals

• Embedded Information Systems: Body of Knowledge contains everything and it lives inside your organization for repeated use

• Scalable Knowledge: Internal capacity grows with your team — not dependent on consultants

• Cross-Team Alignment: Every leader speaks the same grant language, aligned to mission and funder priorities

What You Leave With

• Permanent Team Capacity: Leadership team aligned, skilled, and empowered to execute grant strategy independently

• Scalable Infrastructure: Systems and processes that grow as programs, teams, and funding needs evolve

• In-House Knowledge Retention: Templates, tools, and strategies stay with the organization, not individuals

• Repeatable Grant Capability: Confidently build proposals for all future funding cycles

• Team Mastery: Complete alignment on strategy, language, and program coherence

• Immediate Output + Long-Term Capability: Submission-ready proposal AND a foundation for all future grants

What's Included

• 12 live facilitated sessions on Zoom (90 min each)
• Weekly homework with expert feedback
• Complete grant readiness toolkit — templates, frameworks, roadmaps
• 30-minute 1:1 strategy consultation with Stephanie (Week 12)

Alternate Dates + Onsite Option

📅 Need a different start date? Contact info@fundready.io for custom availability or if you have questions.
📞 Interested in a discussion? Book a phone call.
📍Considering onsite? Stephanie is available to facilitate onsite for organizations that prefer in-person team training. Travel required.

About Your Facilitator

Stephanie Willis | Founder & CEO, FundReady, Inc.
Grant Strategist | Business Analyst | Entrepreneur | Author of Reboot: Organizational Transformation for Nonprofits
Questions: info@fundready.io

Winning grants happens long before you apply.

📍Organization Workshop Refund Policy

Our goal is to ensure a productive, results-driven experience for every participant. To maintain fairness and integrity:

• Before the Workshop: Refunds available minus transaction fees.

• After Session 1: Refunds may be requested within 48 hours, minus a $500 admin fee + transaction fees.

• After Session 2: No refunds.

• Materials Accessed: Once materials, recordings, or templates are accessed or downloaded, refunds are not available.

• Workshop Cancellation: Full refund if we cancel.

This policy ensures committed participation and protects the experience for all attendees.