Services
Services Built Around Fundability
From a first diagnostic to a long-term partnership, Walls Wisdom Works meets your organization where it is.
Model Overview
Fundability is built in stages. Organizations do not need to start at the beginning, and the relationship does not have to end after a single grant cycle. Walls Wisdom Works organizes its work into four stages.
Walls Wisdom Works is a nonprofit advisory and capacity-building practice: the people-led, relationship-based work of assessing, strategizing, writing, and partnering with your organization. GrantConnection, our grant intelligence program, is the technology platform that helps you continuously find and evaluate specific funding opportunities. The two are complementary, not the same thing.
Assess
Every engagement can begin with the Expanded Fundability Assessment: a human advisory diagnostic using the thirteen-dimension Walls Wisdom Works Expanded Fundability Framework, whose dimensions include mission clarity, organizational narrative, community need, governance, program design, outcomes, leadership capacity, financial readiness, grant readiness, funding strategy, opportunity alignment, proposal strength, and funder relationships. (GrantConnection’s own Fundability Review is a separate, technology-enabled self-assessment of eight core readiness areas.) You leave with a clear picture of where your organization is strong and where it needs to grow, not a guess.
Assess — a $2,500 consulting retainer that begins a Walls Wisdom Works advisory relationship and includes an Expanded Fundability Assessment using the thirteen-dimension Walls Wisdom Works Expanded Fundability Framework. It is a deeper look at your organization’s fundability, priorities, and strategic needs, and it is separate from the GrantConnection subscription.
What Fundability Means →Engage
Once you know where you stand, we help you build the strategy behind your funding efforts: identifying the right funders and opportunities through grant research, building a funder strategy for cultivating relationships over time, and refining your organizational narrative so your mission is communicated the way funders are trained to receive it.
Grant Strategy →Write
When it is time to apply, we help you build a proposal that reflects your organization's real strength: clear objectives, credible evidence, a realistic budget, and a narrative that connects your work to the funder's priorities without overselling.
Partner
Fundability is not a one-time project. Ongoing advisory relationships and capacity-building engagements help organizations keep strengthening governance, leadership capacity, and funding strategy well past a single proposal deadline.
Capacity Building →
All four stages above apply with equal rigor to churches, denominations, and faith-based nonprofits, where Walls Wisdom Works has some of its deepest experience. Our Faith-Based Specialization →
Need to find the right opportunities first? Explore GrantConnection →
Not Sure Where to Start?
Assess, our consulting engagement, is the fastest way to find out.