Finding the Right Funding Source

You have carefully prepared a case for your project, painstakingly written a detailed proposal complete with charts and graphs and other important details that clearly define objectives and needs, and submitted your application for funding, and then...nothing. Even after follow-up phone calls and letters...nothing. Are you sure you've submitted your project to the agency most likely to be able to help? Have you developed relationships ahead of time to help you?

To secure government dollars, your project must match a funding opportunity, and these opportunities can evolve and change at a dizzying pace. Each year, there are a thousands of grant opportunities, Broad Agency Announcements and discretionary opportunities, plus the thousands more in regulatory changes and pieces of legislation moving through Congress. The criteria, deadlines and funding possibilities can vary from one year to the next. Plus staffers you talked to one day are gone another or programs funded one year are cut the next—leaving you to start all over again if you don't know how the system works.

To succeed in obtaining funding and shaping the decision-making process in all sectors of government, it is vital to keep close tabs on this ever-changing landscape and the people who drive the process.

Say Hello to Your Team

Liz Powell, Esq., MPH Principal

Lindsay Fello, LSW Mid-West Director

Becky Watts Appropriations Director

Sarah Perz Government Affairs Manager

Clint Satterthwaite Government Affairs Manager

Ryan Pierce Government Affairs Assistant

Tyler Allchin Government Affairs Assistant

Paige Peltzer Government Affairs Assistant

Diane Chelsea Account Manager

Sherri Waxman Account Manager

Heather Risher Office Manager

Victoria Jarufe Intern

Joshua Friedlander Government Affairs Assistant