We help ambitious, tech-comfortable nonprofits build the grant infrastructure to scale beyond $1M.
This is for organizations that want to replace scattered grant chasing with repeatable infrastructure through a vetted funding plan, a Ph.D.-crafted Standard Grant Narrative, and a custom AI Grants Hub™ in Notion your team will rely on for years.
Notion is required for all Grant Launch clients. We build and customize your Hub inside Notion and train your team to use it.
This is for organizations that want a system, not just submissions.
If you want one-off writing without adopting a grant workflow and shared tools, we will not be the right fit.
If you are honest, you probably do not have a “grant program.” You have a grant scramble.
If nothing changes, the next year looks like more of the same.
More reactive decisions. More rewrites. More missed-fit opportunities.
Grant Launch is built to create the opposite: clarity, reuse, and momentum.
We design and implement future-ready grant programs powered by strategy, systems, and AI.
We do not start by writing. We start by understanding how your organization works.
Up front, we complete a robust intake and systems discovery to understand your current process, tools, documents, and bottlenecks. Then we design the workflow and build the infrastructure around your real operations.
What makes our approach different
Online learning experiences designed for aspiring and seasoned grant writers alike.
Perfect if you want to build skills in-house and move faster with clearer systems.
Customized trainings to enhance your grant writing skills and strengthen grant readiness, workflows, and AI-enhanced processes.
We've worked with over 100 clients across 30 states and 9 countries.
Countries: U.S., Syria, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, and Somalia
“We’ve won over $3.6 million in federal workforce development grants by working with Krista and her team of grant writers. Once they helped us get that first $1.3 million grant, it opened the doors to a world of opportunities for our new nonprofit.
Now our programs are rapidly expanding and government officials and academic leaders are asking to work with us. Most of all, we’re training hundreds of West Virginians to get high-paying jobs that make broadband widespread in our state.
We love working with Krista and her team. They’re all sharp and incredible writers. We couldn’t have done any of this without them.”
-Darrell Pepper, Executive Director, Connec Train Corp, Client of 5 years
"We’re a small organization serving our Pacific Islander community through a culturally specific approach. Krista Kurlinkus, LLC understands our mission and values and in less than a year has helped us grow our housing assistance program and expand our youth development programming beyond Portland to southern Oregon.
We started with 1 staff and are now 10 statewide. We meet regularly to review our strategies and our awesome grant writer is very attentive and flexible with our often full schedule.
We highly recommend them if you’re looking to grow or even sustain your organization.”
-Jacinta Galea’i, Ph.D., Executive Director, Samoa Pacific Development Corporation, Client of 2 years
"We are so thrilled to be working with Krista Kurlinkus on our grant process. We have worked with other grant writers before, but Krista has made the process easy and professional. Krista has helped us get international grants from 4 different governments, the U.N., and private foundations to help fight human trafficking in Southern Africa. She is a delight, incredibly smart, and easy to work with! I highly recommend Krista!"
- Jennifer Crow, Executive Director of Beautiful Dream Society, Client of 6 years
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Grant Launch is intentionally hands-on. We build and customize each organization’s system and Hub, then train the team for real adoption. Because of that, we only take on a limited number of Grant Launch clients at a time.
If you want to see whether this is a fit, the best next step is to start with Grant Launch.
Or, if you already know you want a system-built approach and your team is ready for Notion. Fill out our brief form to request a discovery call with us.
Notion required. Tech-comfortable teams only.
