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      <image:caption>Grant Readiness Assessments: The Grantwell can provide your organization with a grant readiness assessment and present the results of this assessment (along with our recommendations) to your board or leadership council. Grant Opportunity Funding Searches: The Grantwell can provide your organization with a comprehensive list of foundation, state, and federal grant opportunities that are good matches with your organization's goals, needs, priorities, and programs. Program Evaluation: The Grantwell provides program evaluation services and can assist in reporting to funders and to the public the outcomes and impact of grant funded programs and services.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Individual Grant Writing Coaching/Editing: The Grantwell can customize a grant writing strategy for your organization, provided funding options, and otherwise coach your organization through the grant process. Whatever your skill level we can provide new ideas to advance your efforts. We also can provide our feedback and edit grant proposals you are currently working on or would like reviewed prior to submission.  Grant Proposal Writing: Whether you would like assistance with one proposal or twenty, The Grantwell can assist in or fully construct grant proposals on behalf of your organization. Typically we provide package rates for those looking to write 5 grants, 10 grants, or 20 grants. Annual Retainer Packages: The Grantwell is also able to offer longer-term grant writing services to organizations and entities on an annual retainer basis.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Grantwell LLC provides non-profit social service groups with quality and affordable grant support, grant writing, grant training, and grant reporting assistance. The Chief Executive Officer of the Grantwell, LLC is Christina Ryder. Since its inception and under Christina's leadership, this team has assisted in raising over $140 million in federal and foundation grant funding for non-profit and public service entities (including social service non profit entities, cities and municipalities, community coalitions, emergency management groups, fire and police departments, education, and health organizations) in the United States and around the world. The Grantwell, LLC is headquartered in Springfield, MO.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Christina is the CEO of The Grantwell and is a former social worker, a current sociologist, and expert in federal and foundation funding requests, program development, and social science evaluation research. She graduated from Vanguard University of Southern California with a degree in Sociology and then from the University of California, Irvine with a Masters in Social Science with a concentration in demography and social analysis and course focus on social inequality. Throughout her professional career she has participated in various federal grant evaluations including program evaluations on behalf of the USDA, SAMHSA, HHS, and the DOJ. As a Certified Sociology Practitioner (CSP) and federally recognized statistician, she has also participated in, or authored, over 40 various social science research studies endeavors, journal articles, and community based reports.</image:caption>
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