Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC

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🎉 Welcome to the Think.Ink.Fund Community 🎉We're excited to have you join us! Here, nonprofit leaders, university grant teams, and local government agencies come together to stop guessing and start winning grants with a strategic approach. Led by Shavonn Richardson, our community offers unique insights from both sides of the funding table.<ul><li>Join our Live Grant AMAs</li><li>Access exclusive articles and blogs</li><li>Engage in video trainings</li><li>Explore Think.Ink.Fund Pro & Enterprise Subscriptions</li></ul>Your funding future starts here. Let's strategize and act together!

Before your team can get grants better, you need to know where your organization stands. The E.P.I.C. Assessment (Lite) evaluates your grant readiness across one dimension, eligibility, and surfaces the gaps your team needs to address before your next proposal goes out. 

Need more? Upgrade to the E.P.I.C. Assessment (MAX) to evaluate your grant readiness across all four dimensions.

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Grant Writing 101

You're past the basics. You know how grants work, you're submitting proposals, and your organization has real funding goals on the line. What you need now isn't more information — it's better tools, sharper strategy, and access to the funder intelligence that helps you pursue the right opportunities instead of chasing every open grant you find.

Strategize gives your grant writing team everything in Learn, plus the full E.P.I.C. Assessment (MAX) to diagnose your organizational readiness, the complete Template Resource Library — including the No/Go Decision Framework, Grant Deadline Tracker, and How to Design a Fundable Nonprofit Program — access to all webinar replays on demand, 15% off all paid training and webinars, priority registration for events, a 2026–2027 Grant Research Report identifying 8–10 aligned funders you aren't currently pursuing, and one automated proposal review per month so your team gets structured strategic feedback before every submission.

Strategize is built for grant writing staff and emerging organization leaders who are ready to stop guessing about which funders to pursue, what their proposals are missing, and what a strategic grant program actually looks like. This is the operational layer your grant writing office needs to compete.

Everything your grant writing team needs to pursue the right funders, strengthen your proposals, and build a pipeline that produces results — including a grant research report, automated.

The Strategize Membership includes everything in the Learn Membership, plus the following Strategize Member benefits:


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An embedded strategic advisory partnership that gives your growing grant writing office the annual plan, program foundation, funder intelligence, and expert support your team needs to win consistently. This is the infrastructure behind proposals that compete.

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Scale Members — Proposal Review (up to 2 per month)

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Scale: Quarterly Strategy Check-ins