Your Path to Grant Success: Top Tools for Streamlined Submissions

Are you considering grants as a part of your organizations’ funding strategy? If not, you should. Whether you are a for profit or non-profit, grants provide many benefits such as:

• Risk-free capital: Once approved, grants are a risk-free way to infuse capital into a business. Businesses don't need to share equity with outside stakeholders, so this allows owners to maintain control of their business. However, always ensure you are a good steward of the awarded funds and are spending as you said you would.
• Public endorsement: Grants can be a promotional tool because they publicly endorse a business venture. The operator of the grant scheme could be a government body, industry association, growth hub, or large corporation.
• Recognition: Winning a grant can help businesses gain recognition for their business model and innovative solutions, which can enhance credibility and open doors for collaboration.
• Access to resources: Grants can help businesses gain access to resources, networking opportunities, and professional mentorship.
• Future funding: Being awarded a grant can make a business a more reliable candidate for receiving other grants or subsidies in the future.

Grants are essentially free money for businesses, and they don't need to be repaid. This can be a big advantage over loans or shareholder investments, which may involve interest charges or giving up a portion of the business.

Funders offer grant opportunities to businesses because they understand the powerful role businesses play in driving innovation, creating jobs, and solving critical challenges. By awarding grants, these organizations—whether government agencies, private foundations, or corporations—are investing in projects that can deliver economic and societal benefits.

The grant application process can often feel obscure and overwhelming, but the rewards are well worth the effort, especially when you have a simple workflow and use the right tools. Whether you're applying for government, private, or non-profit grants at any stage of growth, securing one can open doors to new collaborations and partnerships, propelling your business to new heights.

Thankfully, there are many tools available to streamline the grant-writing processes, reducing labor hours and other expenses, infusing standards for compliance, and increasing the number of responses you can produce. Three standout platforms that can help in the process of identifying, managing your grant pipeline, and drafting your proposals are Grant Exec, HubSpot, and Vultron.

GrantExec

GrantExec is a powerful assistive AI platform that offers access to the largest, continuously updated collection of grant opportunities for nonprofits, startups, researchers, and more. It provides real-time updates and personalized recommendations through an advanced monitoring and matching system, allowing you to focus on your impact while the platform handles the search.

Key features of GrantExec include:

• Market Explorer: Search and analyze billions of dollars in grants using the largest and most accurate live database, with tens of new grants added daily.
• Grant Prospecting: Leveraging AI, GrantExec locates and matches opportunities based on your profile, providing an alignment score to show how well each opportunity fits your needs.
• Live Dashboard: Access live statistics directly on your dashboard, including total prospective grant dollars, additional grant prospects matched by GrantExec, and the number of grants closing within 60 days.
• AI Analysis: This tool condenses full grant documents into a few short paragraphs outlining the key points and next steps. For further evaluation, GrantExec provides links to the full postings.

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HubSpot

HubSpot is an AI-powered CRM that unifies your data, teams, and customers on one platform to drive business growth. It integrates sales, marketing, and customer service tools for a seamless experience. Generate and track leads, manage prospects, create deal pipelines, and measure performance with a unified view of customer interactions. While it lacks post-deal capabilities like project management and accounting, HubSpot's no-code integrations allow even novice users to connect platforms for seamless workflows.

Key features of HubSpot include:

• Custom Properties: Create custom fields to store specific grant information such as application deadlines, funding amounts, and submission status.
• Pipeline Management: Set up a dedicated pipeline for grants where you can track the progress of each grant application through various stages, from prospecting to submission and approval.
• Task Automation: Automate reminders and follow-ups for key grant deadlines or milestones, ensuring that no critical dates are missed.
• Workflows: Create automated workflows that guide your team through the grant application process, ensuring consistency and efficiency in every submission.

Vultron

Vultron is an AI-powered solution for federal and government proposal development that enables organizations to significantly reduce their proposal development level-of-effort and cost while improving the quality of submissions. Vultron builds each organization a secure, custom model that writes in their voice, and orchestrates dozens of highly specialized embedded AI models to expedite every workflow across the entire proposal development process.?

Key features of Vultron include:

• Proposal Development: Dramatically reduce the end-to-end proposal development process, including drafting time, and improve the quality of proposal submissions, leveraging domain-specific models built for the unique needs of government contractors.
• Revenue Generation: Use Vultron to respond to any solicitation type, including RFI, RFQ, Sources Sought, SBIR, OTA, BAA, and RFP.
• Reports and White-papers: Develop expert whitepapers and custom reports to demonstrate thought leadership in your industry.
• Sales Materials: Create engaging sales content that effectively communicates unique selling points.
• Research: Receive answers to complex questions across various domains specific to your organization, federal matters, and the internet.

Although there are many different combinations of tools available, this combination of tools works well together, because they offer easy onboarding, cost sensitive subscriptions, and have intuitive user interfaces that reduce time to value.

Even with all of these benefits, some organizations just need experienced resources to assist in implementing simple tools and processes to pursue grants; and for that, you should contact Twenty39. Twenty39 helps organizations streamline their workflows to incorporate intuitive, cost sensitive solutions that improves operations and informs decision making. Ready to reclaim your time and streamline your operations? Schedule a consultation with Twenty39 today! Let us integrate the tools you need to succeed, while you focus on what matters most.