AmeriCorps Grant Writing Support

In the competitive landscape of AmeriCorps grant applications, standing out is more challenging than ever. With tightened budgets and rigorous standards for FY2025, your proposal must shine on every level. We’re partnering with McMahon Consulting Group – the AmeriCorps application experts – to help programs create winning applications that are 100% aligned with this year’s NOFO.

MCG has years of experience in elevating grant applications to their highest potential, ensuring they meet the exacting criteria of AmeriCorps Agency reviewers or State Service Commissions. Since 2015, MCG has helped write nearly 60 applications; all but one have been funded! Since 2014, MCG’s reviewers have helped hundreds of grantees secure AmeriCorps funds.

What You Get

Our process maximizes your application’s success and gets detailed feedback to you from expert reviewers in just three days. When you sign up for the service and submit your materials, you will receive a report in 72 hours. Send it to us on a Friday and get feedback Monday.

Step 1: Submit Your Application Draft

Submit the materials you’d like us to review, including narratives, logic models, performance measures, budgets and evaluations.

Step 2: Our Expert Grant Review Panel Gets Detailed Feedback to You in Just 72 Hours

- Expert Panel Review:
  Each proposal undergoes thorough evaluation by three experienced reviewers.
- Quality Check:
  We assess the strength of your narrative, the clarity of your program design, and adherence to application instructions.
- Budget & Metrics:
  We scrutinize budgets, performance measures, and logic models for optimization and alignment with AmeriCorps priorities.
- Fidelity to Standards:
  We cross-reference your application against the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and supplemental instructions, ensuring nothing is overlooked.
- Score-boosting Recommendations:
  We’ll present you with an actual score from each of the three reviewers, along with additional tailored suggestions from each reviewer to help you fine-tune your proposal.

Step 3: Q & As

We’ll respond to any clarifying questions you have on your report to ensure you’re feeling 100% clear on all feedback and recommendations to help ensure your final draft maximizes its score.

Meet The Experts

Our review panel comprises seasoned AmeriCorps grant professionals, each with over 10 years of experience. The team includes prominent consultants like Kerry Ose, Amanda McSwine, Samelia Okpodu-Pyuzza, Brian Blahnik, and other experts recognized for their excellence in AmeriCorps program development and compliance.

Kerry Ose

Amanda McSwine

Samelia Okpodu-Pyuzza

Brian Blahnik

Cole McMahon

Kay Emerson

Proven Results

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Enhancing Grants

“McMahon Consulting Group made our application sing. They fixed the red flags. Without them, I wouldn’t sleep at night.” – Cindy Nickerson, New England Science & Sailing

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Scaling Programs

In the last funding cycle MCG helped six clients create 890 new member positions.

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Securing Funding

Since 2012, MCG has helped clients successfully apply for over $60M from AmeriCorps.

What Programs Have To Say

MCG has advised on our grant writing strategy, strengthening several of our grant applications. Because of MCG’s support, I believe LFA is significantly better positioned for strong and sustainable relationships with federal grantmakers.

Reed Shafer-Ray

Lead For America

MCG has a rare combination of deep technical knowledge and experience coupled with a refreshing willingness to be visionary. It’s important to know the rules, but you gotta use moral imagination. MCG does that about as well as anyone I’ve ever worked with.

Fagan Harris

Co-Founder & Former CEO Baltimore Corps, Member of the Board, AmeriCorps

Pricing

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$2,500

For everything covered on this page.
Special pricing opportunities for programs using the Impact Suite!

Let’s Maximize Your Points!

Make your AmeriCorps application soar above the competition.

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