What we do

Firefly delivers comprehensive, strategic grants expertise at a cost that enables long-term client relationships, even for small and midsize nonprofits. These relationships, in turn, increase our ability to engage deeply, work efficiently, and guide an organization’s operations to maximize fundraising ROI.

Since our founding, we have operated on the belief that “grant writing” should be spelled “grant wrighting,” like “playwrighting” traditionally is. Grant proposals are not things to be written, but things to be wrought. Depending on good writing alone is like counting on a good coat of paint to make a house stand up, rather than good engineering. For grants, this means a robust rhetorical and logical structure built equally across needs data, program plans, objectives/metrics, budgets, and timelines. Generating well-structured LOIs, proposals, and reports at the scale of a grants calendar, in turn, requires complex project management across a nonprofit’s leadership and departments. Firefly is an industry leader across these offerings.

In addition – because our team has always engaged with clients to strengthen program structures – Firefly Fundraising evolved to now offer a wide spectrum of services, from team building workshops to board development and organizational restructuring, but we still specialize in grants strategy and execution, including:

• Program development and planning;

• Reframing existing programs to open new funding streams;

• Strengthening program plans and metrics;

• Target research to find private, corporate, and government (city, county, state, and federal level) funding sources;

• Managing the grants side of capital or other large-scale strategic campaigns to purchase or renovate facilities or launch new initiatives; and

• Writing and editing of grants through all phases, from relationship building to research, LOI creation, proposal submission, reporting, and more.

New as of 2025, we are exploring the unique opportunities that AI presents to leverage our top-quality, original source material into even more submissions for our clients, while protecting client IP.

Finally – in collaboration with with our sister company, Firefly Theater & Films – we craft film content for nonprofits, like these pieces for Theatre Communications Group, the Genesis Prize, and the Walton Family Foundation.