the narrative
Need, approach, outcomes, evaluation. Written to the funder’s scoring criteria, in your organization’s voice, with your data in it.
Grant writing & proposal development · Brooklyn, NY
bring us the application you keep dreading.
Draft 3 · red pen on
Fairweather & Quill finds the funder, writes the narrative, defends every line of the budget, and stays on the phone until the portal says “submitted.” For small nonprofits and community health organizations. One fixed fee per package, quoted before we write a word.
- Narrative
- Budget justification
- Submission support
02 · Who we write for
we write for the ones doing the work.
Not for institutions with a grants department and a vendor list. For the organizations whose development office is one person with a Sunday night free.
01 · Small nonprofits
the three-person org with the forty-page rfp.
You run the pantry, the after-school room, the tenant hotline. We take the funder’s guidelines apart, write to the scoring rubric, and hand you a package you can sign on Friday.
- Foundation and corporate applications
- City and state RFPs
- Letters of inquiry that earn a second look
02 · Community health organizations
clinics, outreach teams, and people who knock on doors.
Federal health proposals are won on data, a logic model that holds, and a budget justification that survives a reviewer’s red pen. We build the need statement from your numbers, not boilerplate, and argue each dollar line by line.
- NOFO-driven federal narratives and work plans
- Budget justification with indirect costs handled
- Portal registration and submission-day support
03 · First-timers and the rejected
first federal application? or your third rejection letter?
Bring us the reviewer comments. A rejection is the funder’s free consultation. We read it, rebuild the weak sections, and put you back in the queue on the next cycle. Nobody here finds that embarrassing.
- Reviewer-comment teardown
- Resubmission rewrite at the red-pen rate
Next cycle
resubmit.
The same program, a sharper argument, and a reviewer who finally gets the point.
03 · The desk
the desk where it gets written.
the budget justification
Every line item argued in plain language, indirect costs handled, every number tied back to the narrative so a reviewer can’t find the gap.
submission support
Portal registration, file formatting, an attachments checklist, and a person on the phone with you while the upload bar crawls.
04 · The fee, argued
we don’t bill by the hour. hours reward slow writing.
You get one number, in writing, before we draft a sentence. If the funder moves the deadline, that’s our scheduling problem, not a line on your invoice.
1fixed fee per package, quoted in writing
3deliverables in every package: narrative, budget, submission
21days of lead time we ask for on a federal package
05 · What we write, and what it costs
a grant is not a plea. it’s an argument — and we write arguments that hold up in the room.
Funders read hundreds of applications that ask nicely. We write the one that makes the case.
the fee schedule, in full.
Packages that say “narrative + budget + submission” include all three. Prices are per package, not per hour, and don’t move once you’ve said yes.
funder hunt
A ranked shortlist of 12 funders matched to your mission, geography and budget size — with deadlines, award ranges and a one-paragraph read on each.
Flat fee$640Request this onefoundation package Most requested
An application or letter of inquiry up to 8 pages: narrative, budget and justification, attachments checklist, and submission.
From$1,380Request this onecity & state package
RFPs and state grants: full narrative, logic model, budget justification, compliance review against the RFP, and portal submission.
Flat fee$2,960Request this onefederal package
NOFO-driven proposals in the HRSA, SAMHSA and CDC mold: full narrative, work plan, budget and justification, SF-424 forms, registration check, and submission day on the phone with you.
From$5,740Request this onered-pen rescue
You wrote it. We edit it hard: structure, scoring alignment, cuts. Two rounds of notes, delivered in 4 business days. Also the rate for resubmission rewrites.
Per application$475Request this one
Invoiced: half to start, half on submission. Pay by ACH, check or card. Every quote arrives in writing before work begins.
06 · Inbox to portal
from your inbox to the portal, in order.
- Day 0 · The call
thirty minutes, free, blunt.
You tell us the funder, the due date and what the money is for. We tell you straight whether it’s worth applying.
- Day 1–2 · The quote
one number, on paper.
A fixed fee in writing. Half to start, half on submission. Say yes and the number never moves.
- Weeks 1–2 · The draft
we interview your program lead.
One 60-minute conversation, one data handoff. Then narrative and budget get drafted side by side so they agree with each other.
- Before the deadline · The red pen
two rounds, read aloud.
You mark it up, we cut it down. Every page is read out loud before it counts as finished.
- Submission day · The portal
we’re on the line while it uploads.
Files formatted, attachments checked, confirmation number in your inbox before anyone goes home.
Before the first call
bring this. leave the polish at home.
- The funder’s guidelines or a link to the NOFO / RFP
- The due date, and the date you’d like to be done
- Your current budget and last year’s 990 (rough is fine)
- One paragraph on what the money would actually do
- Any past rejection letter. Yes, really. We love those.
the questions you’re actually asking.
Will you guarantee we win the grant?
No, and anyone who does is selling something. We guarantee a complete, compliant, well-argued submission, in on time. Funding is the funder’s decision.
What if we’re rejected?
Send us the reviewer comments. When the narrative structure stands, a resubmission rewrite is quoted at the red-pen rate, $475. When it doesn’t, we’ll say so before you spend a dollar.
Why a fixed fee instead of hourly?
Hourly billing pays writers for being slow and punishes you for asking questions. A fixed fee makes us fast, and makes your budget knowable on day one.
How much of our staff’s time does this take?
One 60-minute interview, one data handoff, and two review rounds of about an hour each. That’s the whole ask.
Who owns the writing?
You do. Once the final payment clears, every file is yours to reuse for the next funder.
Where are you, and do we have to come in?
We’re based in Brooklyn, NY, and work by appointment. Most of it happens over calls and shared documents, and if you’re nearby you’re welcome at the desk.
07 · Book a call
tell us the due date.
Thirty minutes, free, by appointment. Give us the funder, the deadline and one line about the work, and we’ll answer within one business day.
Call(347) 574-6615
HoursBy appointment — book a call
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255 79Th St. Apt D4
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