GRANTS RFPs STRATEGY GROWTH

Pursue more funding.With a stronger strategy.

Turn your organization’s potential into a stronger case for support. We help nonprofits, businesses, and mission-driven organizations get funding-ready, find aligned opportunities, and build compelling proposals.

Attorney-led insight. Opportunity-focused support.

Funding decisions belong to funders. Services do not guarantee awards.

What we do

One partner for opportunity, readiness, and organizational growth.

Funding, compliance, programs, visibility, and execution are connected. Your support should be too.

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Funding Readiness & Grants

Know where you stand, find aligned opportunities, and prepare a clearer case for support.

  • Readiness gap review
  • Qualified opportunity research
  • Narratives, budgets & application support
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RFPs & Proposal Support

Focus your effort on the right opportunities and respond with clarity and discipline.

  • Bid / no-bid framework
  • Requirements & compliance matrix
  • Proposal development & review
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Nonprofit Foundations

Build the governance, records, and operating structure behind a credible mission.

  • Formation or reinstatement roadmap
  • Bylaws, policies & board records
  • Compliance calendar & priorities
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Organizational Strategy

Translate ambition into defined programs, responsible priorities, and a practical plan.

  • Program design & outcome framework
  • Budget and partnership strategy
  • Implementation roadmap
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Visibility & Partnerships

Communicate your value to funders, partners, clients, and the communities you serve.

  • Case for support & capability materials
  • Organizational website positioning
  • Partnership and outreach strategy
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Ongoing Growth Support

Add accountable research, guidance, and execution capacity around agreed priorities.

  • Agreed advisory and project priorities
  • Research & documentation support
  • Progress reviews & next steps
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Meet the founder

Meet Attorney Nekima Hill.

Legal insight. Strategic perspective. Practical execution.

Strategy Funding Group is led by Attorney Nekima Hill, founder of The Strategy Counsel—a licensed attorney, IRS Enrolled Agent, strategist, and consultant with more than a decade of cross-functional experience.

Her professional background spans legal services, nonprofit and business strategy, tax and compliance, funding research, program development, and consulting experience that includes PwC and Deloitte. That range supports a practical approach: assess the organization, qualify the opportunity, protect credibility, and build work leaders can actually use.

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PwC and Deloitte are listed as professional background experience and do not imply endorsement.

The opportunity landscape

More possibilities.
A clearer direction.

One partner across funding, readiness, response, and growth. We connect the possibilities to what your organization is prepared to pursue.

Find your starting point

Eligibility, geography, timing, and capacity guide every recommendation. Opportunities and awards are never guaranteed.

Growth, made practical

The right support should make the mission easier to move.

We turn scattered priorities into organized, usable work your team can pursue, maintain, and build upon.

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Identify aligned grant opportunities

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Track RFP and contract deadlines

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Organize readiness documents

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Build master grant files

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Strengthen program narratives

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Develop fundable budgets

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Create governance systems

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Prepare capability statements

The impact system

From scattered effort to one coordinated growth path.

We connect opportunity, readiness, response, and execution so the organization can move with greater confidence and discipline.

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Assess

Stage, eligibility, priorities, and immediate pressure

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Prepare

Documents, narratives, budgets, positioning, and proof

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Pursue

Application, proposal, partnership, or implementation

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Grow

Measure, maintain, and expand organizational capacity

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Why organizations invest

Not more information. More capacity to pursue what matters.

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Focus

Stop losing leadership time to disconnected searches and low-fit opportunities.

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Credibility

Present a stronger organization to funders, agencies, partners, donors, and clients.

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Capacity

Access multiple growth capabilities without building a full internal department.

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Momentum

Turn strategy into deadlines, deliverables, decisions, and consistent follow-through.

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Funding starts with preparation

Become funding-ready.
Build from a stronger foundation.

Explore the readiness, strategy, and proposal preparation behind a stronger case for support.

For nonprofits, businesses, and churches, the next step starts with understanding your organization—not simply chasing another opportunity.

Funding decisions are made by funders. Our services do not guarantee awards.

Clear entry offers

Know exactly where to start.

Each focused engagement produces a useful decision tool—even if you choose to build in a later phase. Scope and investment are confirmed after discovery.

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Best first step for funding

Funding Readiness & Opportunity Assessment

Identify the documents, programs, evidence, budgets, and opportunity priorities needed for stronger grant pursuit.

  • Readiness gap map
  • Opportunity-fit priorities
  • 90-day funding roadmap
Assess our funding readiness
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Best first step for RFPs

RFP & Contracting Readiness Review

Evaluate capability materials, registrations, opportunity fit, bid discipline, and the response process required to compete.

  • Readiness and capability review
  • Bid/no-bid framework
  • Prioritized contracting plan
Review our RFP readiness
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Best first step for nonprofits

Nonprofit Organizational Blueprint

Turn formation, governance, compliance, programs, funding readiness, and growth priorities into one usable roadmap.

  • Organizational gap assessment
  • Governance and compliance roadmap
  • Implementation priorities
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Outcomes by organizational need

Start with the result you need most.

We shape the engagement around the immediate pressure point, then build foundations that can support the next stage.

Need funding

Become ready before the right opportunity appears.

Build the documents, narratives, budgets, and priorities needed for disciplined pursuit.

Need opportunities

Focus on grants and RFPs you can realistically win.

Match eligibility, mission, capacity, geography, timing, and strategic value before investing effort.

Need structure

Create the organization behind the mission.

Strengthen governance, compliance, programs, records, policies, and implementation systems.

Need growth

Add execution capacity without another full payroll.

Bring research, communications, websites, planning, and special projects into one coordinated relationship.

Integrated capabilities

Strategy Funding Group expertise

One connected team for the opportunity, readiness, visibility, and execution behind a stronger organization.

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Funding strategy

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Grant readiness

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RFP response

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Nonprofit compliance

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Program design

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Growth execution

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Project types

Solutions designed around real organizational pressure.

Representative project types show the challenge, response, and intended outcome our work is designed to deliver.

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Nonprofit infrastructure

Organizational Blueprint & Compliance System

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Funding readiness

Grant Opportunity & Pursuit Portfolio

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RFP strategy

Capability & Proposal Response System

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How we work

Structured enough to be dependable. Flexible enough to fit your reality.

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Assess

We clarify your stage, goals, readiness, immediate pressure, and strongest opportunity.

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Prepare

We organize the strategy, documents, positioning, compliance, and evidence needed to move.

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Pursue

We support the application, proposal, launch, partnership, or implementation with disciplined execution.

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Strengthen

We help your team improve the systems, evidence, visibility, and capacity behind its next stage.

Insights

Ideas for becoming more fundable and competitive.

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Field guide

The Funding Readiness Map

What to organize before your next grant or contract opportunity.Read the insight
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Executive brief

What Makes an Organization Fundable?

How structure, programs, evidence, and visibility shape confidence.Read the insight
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Opportunity note

From RFP to Strong Response

A practical path from solicitation review to compliant submission.Read the insight
FREE GUIDEThe Funding
Readiness Map

12 essentials to organize before your next grant or RFP.

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The Impact Brief

Become more fundable before the deadline appears.

Request the free Funding Readiness Map and receive practical strategies for grants, RFPs, compliance, programs, and organizational growth.

The email option opens a prepared message so we can send the guide directly to your inbox.

Let’s move forward, thoughtfully.

Your next opportunity deserves a clear strategy.

Bring us the goal, the deadline, or the challenge. Together, we’ll define the right next step for your organization.

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