You don’t have to do it all.

Grant support for busy people.

Over $18 million in grant funding secured.

Hi, I’m Briana.

Grant Consultant

I work in partnership with nonprofit leaders creating equitable, vibrant, and sustainable communities to secure competitive funding and build grant development capacity.

I help you get back to where you are needed most: working with your community to realize a vision – not sitting at your desk buried by grant applications or trying to figure out how grants work.

I'm here for you if

You’re a first-time Executive Director at a small underfunded nonprofit where you wear many hats. You haven’t worked on grants before and you’re not sure where to start.
Your creative ideas to wine and dine are legendary. Spending time writing grants isn’t going to help you cultivate the donors you need to reduce your organization’s reliance on grants (and there’s that gala you have to plan…).
Your grant writer left and all the funder information and deadlines walked out the door with them. They left you a folder with some old proposals and three spreadsheets though.
You’re spending a lot of time administering a lot of small grants for one-time programs or projects but have to scramble to find money for operating expenses.
You’re canceling all your evening and weekend plans for the next two months because a state or federal grant application has landed on your desk.
You’ve gone down the rabbit hole of grant writing boot camps, templates, worksheets, quick guides, how-to webinars, tips and tricks, workshops, blogs, and even learned 101 ways to answer the sustainability question from 101 different experts. Countless hours, a folder full of marketing freebies, and many mailing list subscriptions later, you’re ready for hands-on help focused solely on getting you where you need to be.

Let's make grants work for you.

The most common thing I hear from people asking for help is that they just don’t have time for this. This isn’t what they do. They’re too busy building a better world.

My goal is to help you get you the money you need, for what you actually need it for, as simply as I can.

Together, we will:

Reduce stress and deadline pressure
Save time by creating efficiencies in grant writing, for a single project or across many years
Optimize funding potential to meet prioritized needs
Build a portfolio of consistent funders
Position your state or federal grant application for success in an extremely competitive award environment
Demystify grant development

And yes, it is possible to get grants for general operating support!

Services

Grant research
Foundation grants
Government grants
Grant strategy
Grant education
Grant capacity building

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Client Testimonials

When I was hired as Executive Director of Grassroots Gardens WNY in 2018, I was tasked with "growing the organization up" while keeping its activist roots. Our budget at the time was under $200,000. I spent my first year writing grants around the clock while also trying to learn the organization and put systems into place to support it. It was exhausting and I knew we needed help. Our board agreed to invest in a grant consultant. Once we started working with Briana, I was amazed by how quickly things turned around. Briana not only shares grant writing responsibilities with me but she has found us numerous new funders including national foundation support and federal grants. By the end of 2019, we had revenue over $400,000 for the first time and this year, we are on track to generate over $500,000. Briana is easy to work with, so incredibly organized and she kept me on track with my goals. Numerous funders have mentioned to me that our grant applications she has written are "the best of the bunch." Grassroots Gardens would not have grown so well these last 3 years without Briana Popek.

Jeanette A. Koncikowski

Exective Director, Grassroots Gardens

Working with Briana has been a Godsend for our organization. As a group that is 98% volunteer run we all have to do a little bit of everything to serve the community today, but we want to do more tomorrow. Though we knew how we wanted to grow, the timeline on which we wanted to grow, and how we wanted to fund our growth, the problem was finding the time to create the funding requests to support that growth. Briana gave us that time. After a short strategic engagement Briana provided an expanded, highly curated, list of funders from which we could seek support, her research found previous funders that had fallen out of touch, and she gave us a great toolkit to manage our funders going forward. If you make one investment in your future this year, invest in a relationship with Briana.”

Will Mondschein

Board President, GiGi's Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Centers