Grant writing

We are a coalition of researchers with the shared purpose of using our academic training to propel social change that improves people’s lives. Led by Candace Kohli, PhD, we use the research, writing, and program design skills we honed at leading US universities to help mission-driven organizations grow their capacity to deliver high-impact programs.

We support all organizations working to meet people’s needs and improve lives. We specialize in working with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and arts organizations.

Fundraising

We help non-profits achieve greater visibility and financial stability through grant writing, fund raising appeals, public relations, media relations, marketing, social media, event planning, and website design.

Burke Hammons Consulting helps nonprofits, schools, and municipalities take their grant seeking to the next level. We provide prospective funder research, grant preparedness assessment and coaching, and assistance crafting applications.

Founder and Principal Grant Strategist, Meredith Burke Hammons, is a native of Charlotte and graduate of Davidson College.  In the last five years as a full-time grant professional, she has written applications resulting in awards of more than $18 million.

Communication Mark is celebrating 25 years in 2025!

Communication Mark provides a full range of grant writing services. We not only write grant proposals, we help gather data, build your case, conduct grant research, and cultivate funders. When you get grants, we'll help you maintain that financial support by assisting with grant stewardship and reporting.

Have you wondered how current trends may affect your ability to attract funding? This webinar will provide an overview of current trends in philanthropy including:

Whether through traditional or digital mediums, nonprofits must tell their stories effectively to garner attention in a crowded media landscape. 

How to Tell Stories

Nonprofits must be conscious of the ways they represent the populations they serve, being careful to respect the individual or group's agency, empower rather than victimize or exploit, avoid re-traumatization, and think ahead about the way presenting that story to the world will affect the storyteller's life in the future.

Introduction to Ethical Storytelling

This webinar is designed for the nonprofit leader who is committed to the needs of their community and is searching for ways to take their organization to the next level. Using tried and true strategies, you will learn alternative ways to generate revenue for your organization without writing grants. These strategies will help create clarity and long-term sustainability so your organization can easily fulfill its mission. In this process, you will learn the nonprofit entrepreneurial mindset (NEM).

The Successful Nonprofits podcast has a catalog of episodes that focus on a wide range of topics, including managing your board, maximizing use of technology, mitigating risk, nonprofit law, promoting diversity and inclusion, and so on. Each episode is a conversation with one nonprofit expert and the podcast is available for listening on multiple platforms.

Whether you need funding for enterprise software or just basic workstation hardware, funders and grantmakers willing to cover the costs for your nonprofit's information technology infrastructure (often considered overhead expense) are few and far between.

Finding and Approaching Technology Funders