generate more good
We help nonprofits, municipalities, and funders raise and leverage money for social impact.
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We build successful development strategies for nonprofits and municipalities.
A holistic approach to Your success
We help our clients create everything they need to successfully fund social impact initiatives. Our top priority is to build your capacity – so you are ready to secure funding and do more with more.
- Expertise without payroll
Our clients gain 10+ years of director-level experience and strategy for the cost of a mid-level employee (without adding to payroll).
- Beyond Grants
We provide a holistic funding ecosystem including annual funds, capital campaigns, levy campaigns, and earned income strategies.
- Legislative Bridge
We offer specialized government relations advice to help local nonprofit and municipal leaders interact with elected officials and secure budget allocations.
what we do
Development Services
Work with us on a contract basis for specific projects, including grant writing, developing funding proposals, prospecting, research, budgeting, and creating systems to raise more money now and sustain it over the long term.
Coaching
Learn effective fund sourcing, writing grant proposals, and how to interact with funders and individual donors. Our 1-to-1 and group coaching and online development training will prepare you to succeed.
planning
Do you have a plan for bringing in the money your organization needs? We look at your program from a funder’s perspective, assess your development process, and create a custom Fund Development Plan.
the Grants Lab
Enrolling now
The Grants Lab is an 8-session course over 10 weeks where participants learn grant writing by working on a grant application for a non-profit of their choice. They receive expert guidance through coaching calls between sessions.
Sign up now for the Fall 2026 Cohort!
testimonials
Sue Peters
President
Ruth Mott Foundation
The community was awarded a $1M, 3-year implementation grant. And without that, the impacts that we have seen would not have been possible.
Guy O. Williams
President & CEO
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Paper Crane has really helped us improve our vision of the entire field of opportunities and helped us gain confidence through consistent practices.
Edee Franklin
Executive Director
Sanctum House
I called Lynda full of anxiety about how I was going to get a package together to present to our potential funders. It was like she read my mind.
celebrating collaboration
Congratulations to the City of Lancaster
for the $800,000 award from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s RAISE (now BUILD) planning grant, authored by Lynda Berge Disser. The grant will pay for a feasibility study for the Eastside Industrial Connector to reduce truck traffic downtown and provide better access to the eastside industrial park and Fairfield Medical Center.
