Spectrum Grant Lab (SGL) partners with clients to design, prepare, and submit applications for Federal, state, and private grant funding. SGL offers the following services:
- Designing and conducting needs assessments
- Facilitating project design / planning activities
- Facilitating development of key partnerships between clients and community, state, and national organizations
- Writing grant proposals (in part or in full; more or less independently or in partnership with clients' in-house grant-writing staff)
- Submitting grant proposals
- Managing post-submission communication with funding agency staff
SGL writers hold degrees in technical writing, journalism, communication, and instructional technology. Over the past ten years, SGL writers have developed proposals that have secured over $150 million in Federal funding. We have helped clients submit applications to the following competitions:
- Arts in Education (ED)
- Advanced Placement Incentive (ED)
- Advanced Placement Test Fee (ED)
- Carol M. White Physical Education (ED)
- Community Based Abstinence Education (HHS)
- Communities Empowering Youth (HHS)
- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) (Justice)
- Congressional Academies (ED)
- Early Childhood Educator (ED)
- Early Reading First (ED)
- Elementary Counseling (ED)
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ED)
- Full Service Community Schools (ED)
- Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (ED)
- Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (ED)
- GREAT (Gang Resistance Education and Training) (Justice)
- Healthy Marriage Initiative (HHS)
- Improving Literacy Through School Libraries (ED)
- Magnet Schools Assistance (ED)
- Parent Information and Resource Centers (ED)
- Safe Schools / Health Students (ED/HHS)
- Services to Refugees (HHS)
- Smaller Learning Communities (ED)
- Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Children with Disabilities (ED)
- Toyota Family Literacy Grant (Toyota)
- Transition to Teaching (ED)
- Teaching American History (ED)
- Well-Integrated Screening & Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) (CDC)
| Abbreviation Guide |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control |
| ED |
U.S. Department of Education |
| HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| TOYOTA |
Toyota Family Literacy Program / National Center for Family Literacy |
| JUSTICE |
U.S. Department of Justice |
In addition to these projects, Spectrum grant writers actively seek new grant competitions to address the changing needs of their clients.
SGL Leadership
Seth Johnson, Grant Lab Director
Megan Wilcken, Opportunities Development Manager