funder research · narratives · full packages
proposals written with the patience your funding deserves.
We read the guidelines twice, listen to how your program actually sounds in the room, and hand back a packet a reviewer can move through without friction — clean margins, honest numbers, a narrative that breathes.
who we sit down with
nonprofits and research teams who’d rather be doing the work.
two ways to spend a deadline week
the frantic packet, and the quiet one.
copied, pasted, and prayed over.
- Last year’s narrative dusted off with the dates changed
- A budget that doesn’t quite reconcile with the ask
- Attachments uploaded at 11:52pm, still smelling of panic
- A rejection letter with no notes to learn from
slow enough to be right.
- A fresh narrative built from a real conversation about your program
- Line items that add up and match the story sentence by sentence
- A full checklist cleared days before the portal closes
- A debrief either way — funded, or ready to try the next door
how a packet comes together
from a first phone call to a submitted portal.
Five stretches of work you can watch happen. Nothing gets uploaded until every box on the funder’s checklist is ticked and initialed.
- 01
the listening call
Forty-five unhurried minutes on your program — who it serves, what it costs, and the change you can actually point to. We take notes; you do the talking.
- 02
funder hunt
We comb federal, state, and foundation calls for the ones that fit your mission and your timeline — then rank them by odds and effort, so you chase the right doors.
- 03
the narrative draft
Need statement, approach, outcomes, and evaluation — written to be read aloud, plain where it should be plain, vivid where it earns it. You mark up two rounds.
- 04
budget & attachments
A budget that reconciles to the penny, plus letters of support, logic models, and every appendix the guidelines demand, formatted to spec.
- 05
the clean submission
We assemble the packet, run the checklist twice, and file it with margin to spare — then send you a copy of everything that went in.
packages · billed per funded application
pick the amount of us you need.
the narrative
- Full narrative to the funder’s page and character limits
- Two revision rounds with tracked changes
- Abstract and executive summary polish
the full packet
- Funder research and a ranked opportunity shortlist
- Complete narrative, budget, and reconciling justification
- Attachments assembled and filed in the portal for you
- Post-decision debrief, funded or not
research teams
- NSF / NIH / DOE narratives and specific aims support
- Coordination across PIs, subawards, and sponsored programs
- Compliance, biosketches, and data-management plans
Prices are starting points for a single application; complex or federal work is quoted after the listening call. We invoice on submission, with a success fee due only when an award lands.
before you write a word
“the deadline was three weeks out and the guidelines read like weather — hesperian handed it back clear.”
— what we hope you’ll say afterward
Tell us the funder, the deadline, and the program. If there’s a call for proposals already open, drop the link — we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s worth your week.