Raising Your Success

I wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying the grants class. It has been extremely helpful.
- Maria Thompson-McSperrit , Victim Resource Coordinator, Peace at Home Family Shelter, Arkansas

Welcome to The Kester Group, formerly Thomas-Forbes & Kester, LLC. The Kester Group provides a full range of grants services for non-profits, faith-based organizations, higher education and municipalities/counties. If you are wondering who is out there to apply to or if your workload is just too heavy for you to write the proposals you need to write, then contact us.

 Our services include:

  • Customized research to find the best funding matches for your organization
  • Grant proposal preparation
  • Grants training
  • Conference speaking

Click on the clients link to see a sampling of successfully funded proposals.

Check out our services, learn about us, or sign up for our free monthly newsletter with grantseeking tips and articles. Then feel free to contact us when you are ready to expand your organization's ability to seek and obtain grants!

From Our Blog

It's the Opportunity, Stupid
Posted on 01/23/2012

With apologies to a presidential candidate some of our readers are too young to remember, we urge grant professionals everywhere to adopt this new mantra. (Ok, my mother would never allow her children to call anyone stupid, so you can drop that part, but be sure to keep the opportunity part.)

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Unsolicited LOIs
Posted on 12/02/2011

One of the grant professions' perennial challenges is how to get foundations to know you exist and get on their list of people they do accept applications from. This blog post was written in response to a question posted on a professional discussion forum (AFP on LinkedIn): how to break into those foundations who state they do not accept unsolicited applications.

We welcome your comments and your own experiences.

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