We make it make sense.
Grants and Grit is powered by a team of deeply experienced, culturally grounded strategists who bring together a wide spectrum of skills across the nonprofit, philanthropic, and grassroots ecosystems.
We’ve walked the path from the inside out, having worked within nonprofits, advised foundations, built campaigns, led programs, and secured millions in funding. But beyond credentials, we bring something just as important: lived experience.
Our team understands what it means to be under-resourced while over-delivering. We know what it takes to translate community brilliance into funder language without compromising values. And we’re not afraid to challenge the systems that weren’t built for us.
Together, we merge strategy with soul, data with dignity, and rigor with a deep respect for the communities we serve. Whether writing grants, designing capacity plans, or guiding executive leaders, we lead with clarity, cultural competence, and purpose.
At Grants and Grit, you’re not just hiring consultants. You’re building with people who’ve been in the work and are committed to building a more just future, side by side.
A modern approach
At Grants and Grit, we bring a modern, equity-centered approach to nonprofit development that honors culture, community, and complexity.
We reject extractive fundraising models and outdated nonprofit playbooks that ask Black and Brown leaders to shrink their brilliance or justify their impact. Instead, we offer strategy that is honest, human, and rooted in collective power, not just compliance.
Our work merges cutting-edge strategy with culturally grounded storytelling, tech-forward tools, and deep emotional intelligence. We meet our clients where they are—and help them build toward where they deserve to be.
In this moment of reckoning across philanthropy and social impact, we represent what’s next:
Strategy that centers people, not just programs.
Development practices grounded in equity, not exploitation.
Tools and training that help organizations build.
We’re not replicating old systems.
We’re building new ones—with grit, care, and clarity.
Our rates
Consulting
At Grants and Grit, our time, expertise, and lived experience are valuable and we treat them as such.
We don’t offer “pick your brain” sessions because the knowledge we share comes from years of doing this work inside nonprofits, alongside community, and within systems that have historically underpaid and undervalued Black and Brown labor.
We believe in fair exchange, mutual respect, and purpose-driven partnership. That means consultations are intentional, compensated, and rooted in alignment, not extraction.
If you're curious about working with us, we can set up a discovery call to explore if we’re the right fit for impact that’s built, not borrowed.
60 mins | $300 | Get started
Grant Writing & Prospect Research
We don’t just write grants, we help you build strategy, secure funding, and sustain your mission.
Grants and Grit specializes in culturally grounded, equity-centered grantwriting for Black- and Brown-led nonprofits. From full proposals to funder strategy, we write with clarity, care, and purpose.
Rates start at $1,500, with flat-rate packages and retainer options available. Sliding scale for grassroots orgs.
Capacity Building
We help organizations grow with strategy, not just survival.
From funder readiness and board development to logic models and strategic planning, our capacity-building work supports Black and Brown-led nonprofits in building infrastructure rooted in clarity, equity, and sustainability.
Rates start at $2,000, with custom packages and retainer options available based on project scope and org size.
We don’t just build capacity—we build confidence, systems, and staying power. Get started
Workshops, Trainings, Keynotes & Retreats
Artists, Activists, & Organizers
Philanthropy
We speak truth with strategy.
Grants and Grit offer dynamic, equity-centered workshops/trainings and keynotes that make fundraising, development, and organizational strategy make sense, especially for Black and Brown-led nonprofits navigating philanthropy’s complexities.
Our offerings include:
Fundraising for Liberation
Grantwriting 101 for Black-Led Orgs
Budget Justice + Funder Readiness
Narrative Power: Telling Stories That Reflect Our Brilliance
Decolonizing Development: Reimagining Nonprofit Strategy
Workshops start at $3,500
Keynotes begin at $5,000
Sliding scale available for grassroots orgs and community events.
Every session is customized, culturally responsive, and designed to move people from confusion to clarity, with power, purpose, and possibility.
You’re building culture. Shaping movements. Holding community.
We help you get resourced—without shrinking your truth.
Grants and Grit offers grantwriting, strategy, and capacity support for artists, collectives, activists, and organizers doing the real work. No gatekeeping. No fluff. Just funding and tools that make sense, so you can keep creating, resisting, and leading sustainably.
Moving money with care, clarity, and cultural integrity.
We partner with foundations, movement leaders, and justice-rooted initiatives to reimagine philanthropy from the inside out. Our work is grounded in lived experience, ancestral wisdom, and a deep commitment to the communities we come from and serve.
We don’t just write grants or design strategies, we build alignment between values and action, between bold visions and sustainable practice. Whether you’re a funder seeking to redistribute resources more equitably, provide culturally competent media and narrative strategy for partners, or an organization looking to fundraise with integrity, we help you move from intention to impact, without compromising your principles.