creative grant writing services llc

We position nonprofits for grant success .

We offer custom grant solutions for nonprofits at all stages.

How we can help

GRANT READINESS ASSESSMENT

We will conduct a comprehensive review of your organization and provide a detailed action plan to help you become grant-ready.

GRANT RESEARCH

We will research funders that align with your mission and programs. Our goal is to provide your organization with up to 20 prospective funders.

GRANT STRATEGY & PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT

This service includes prospect research, developing strategies for funding, and building relationships with funders. We will also write a concise proposal detailing your organization's impact on your clients and community.

GRANT MANAGEMENT

This overall management plan includes all of our services listed above plus managing your grants calendar and completing grant reports.

GRANT COACHING

We will train your development staff to establish and grow your grants program. We will work with your organization to develop a compelling story for funders, design a grant management system, and review existing grants.

GRANT TRANSITION SERVICES

We will provide short-term grant services to your organization during an employee leave or during the hiring process for a full-time staff grant writer.

Our mission is to connect nonprofits to the philanthropic community by effectively sharing the organization's impact on the people they serve. We have raised millions of dollars by telling each organization's compelling story with a focus on the people they serve.

Scribe, LLC is dedicated to helping each client achieve their fundraising goals. Some clients come to us without having ever submitted a grant before while others have thriving programs. Our work is centered around the individual client's needs and goals for their organization. 

Scribe was founded in 2011 by Autumn Keck, a fundraising expert with over 20 years of experience in the areas of grant writing, major gift solicitation, event management, and communications.

Autumn, a graduate of North Carolina State University, began her fundraising career at Neighborhood House, a nonprofit in Wilmington, Delaware. She went on to work at the American University Washington College of Law, The JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University, and Girl Scouts of North Carolina Coastal Pines.

Headquartered in North Carolina, Scribe has been assisting nonprofits with grant writing services since 2011. Scribe raised millions of dollars by telling each organization's compelling story with a focus on the people they serve. ​

Grant Writer

Jess Pastore

Jess Pastore has been supporting nonprofits as a skilled writer and fundraiser for over 15 years. She holds a Masters in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors in Urban Studies from Bryn Mawr College, and is passionate about advancing social justice, gender equity, and literacy access for all. Prior to joining Scribe, she directed fundraising at an environmental elementary school, advanced donor engagement at the national headquarters of the ACLU Foundation, and designed and implemented literacy programming at the Free Library of Philadelphia and youth writing nonprofits. Originally from rural Virginia, she currently resides in Philadelphia.

Ryan Rattliff

Ryan Rattliff, MSW, is a Grant Writer with Scibe, LLC. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri's Social Work program with a special interest in Policy, Planning, and Administration. She has a background in mental health services and creative writing. In alignment with her personal and professional values, she is committed to increasing access to vulnerable populations through social justice and racial equity frameworks.

Sara Cortes

Sara Cortes is a strategic storyteller with a decade of experience in nonprofit development and communications. A graduate of Harvard University, she helped shape institutional messaging to engage donors and cultivate a culture of giving during the school’s $9.6B capital campaign. At Austin's Blanton Museum of Art, she expanded proposal development by 65% during COVID and led the museum's first successful proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a fundraising consultant, she's led change management and corporate partnership strategy, structuring stakeholder outreach to drive these partnerships to sustaining support. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Emerson College.

Shakira O'Kane

Shakira O'Kane is a graduate of Binghamton University and Emory University School of Law. She was admitted to the Illinois Bar and served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago in the Torts Division until she could no longer ignore the call to serve and give back to her community in a more substantial way. Shakira moved back to her hometown, New York City, and received a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University, and the rest was herstory. She is an expert in program development and management and an experienced grant writer receiving six figure awards. She is not only a big idea person but also loves process and is a self proclaimed Data Junky. She believes that her mission is to help as many people as possible who have ideas to change the world, go from idea to implementation, making sure that they continue to put mission first.

Alicia Jones

Alicia Jones started as a journalist and shifted into grant writing soon into her career, but both share the roots in compelling yet concise storytelling. She started at a small nonprofit seeking local government contracts and ended at a civic engagement affinity group working alongside some of the biggest names in philanthropy before transitioning into freelance consulting. As a grants consultant since 2022, she has helped raise more than $1,000,000 from public and private sources, including an ambitious capital campaign. Her specialties are social service programs and the arts, but as someone who loves learning new things, she enjoys the challenge and growth that comes from writing in new fields. She loves having the ability to aid programs and projects she believes in to grow and better serve their community.

Rebecca Immanuel

With over five years of fundraising and grant writing experience in human services, Becca has a track record spanning both public and private grants. Becca has gained a Master's degree in Grant Writing Management and Evaluation and brings a unique blend of academic knowledge and practical expertise including  grant management, budget development, and impactful proposal and report writing. Becca loves to help nonprofits tell their stories and gain the funding needed to create impact and change in their communities.

The Scribe Tribe

What clients say, working with scribe, llc was a tremendous help to our organization. in just a few months, autumn was able to help source new funders, provide robust research, and assist with grant writing styles. her extensive knowledge of funders and grant programs provided our team with eye-opening information, taught us new communication tactics and showed us different ways of approaching requests. with autumn’s help, we have already increased our planned grant applications for the year and improved communications with some of our dedicated funders. autumn’s warm personality and great dedication made her a pleasure to work with. we truly appreciate the time she took to understand our mission and purpose and help us best communicate it to supporters..

Hospitality House of Charlotte

We have loved working with Scribe LLC over the last two years!  Working with Scribe provides us with more capacity to attract resources we need to carry out our mission.  I can focus on building relationships with current and prospective donors.  Autumn and her team are knowledgeable, professional, and a pleasure to work with.

Amanda Schnieder

Right Moves for Youth

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Autumn Keck of Scribe LLC during my time at KIPP Charlotte Public Schools.  Autumn is the grant writer every Director of Development dreams of working with because she is an excellent thought partner, team player, and advocate.  Honestly, grant research, writing and reporting are my least favorite aspects of fundraising.  I knew I needed to hire someone who was not only strong in grant writing and management, but also loved doing it. Autumn was the perfect fit! She elevated our grants program with her detailed research, strategic thinking, and organizational skills.  Autumn helped us uncover new sources of revenue, as well as strengthen current relationships with foundations, which resulted in more dollars raised for our organization. She breathed new life into our grants program. Without a doubt, our grants program would have suffered if it wasn’t for her expertise and wealth of experience. This world needs more champions for non-profits like Autumn Keck!

Heather Moeller

Children's Home Society

Scribe has been a life saver for us and such a godsend as we can now focus on the mission of the program.  We spent so much time researching and writing and with all of the additional work this program requires, we were drowning.  Scribe has created the space we need to continue with the success of the program and opened us up to multiple opportunities and possibilities.  

Jillian Longsworth

Theatre Gap Initiative

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Guidestar features the most up-to-date information on more than 2.7 million nonprofits. It can help you find important data and research behind the nonprofits you are looking into.

The Grant Professionals Association is the unifying body for all of those working in the grant writing field. From ethics to certification to mentoring, the GPA is an amazing resource for those getting started in grant writing.

The Foundation Directory gives the most up to date and detailed information about professional grant makers and the grants they’ve made. The Foundation Directory is a valuable resource for grant writers as it gives details that you might not be able to find anywhere else.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a magazine that covers the entirety of the nonprofit field. It can help you stay up to date on all the important happenings in the nonprofit world, and it can be a valuable resource in providing data and research.

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) advances philanthropy by enabling people and organizations to practice ethical and effective fundraising. The core activities through which AFP fulfills this mission include education, training, mentoring, research, advocacy and certification programs.

The Foundation for the Carolinas is a valuable resource for Carolina-local grant writers and nonprofits. It features valuable resources from data to grant listings.

SHARE Charlotte is a valuable community hub for Charlotte based nonprofits and grant writers. The site gives up to date information on the happenings of the nonprofit industry within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region.

The North Carolina Center for Nonprofits is a great resource for NC local grant writers to stay up to date and informed with. From event listings to business finders, the NC Center for Nonprofits is a valuable tool for any grant writer.

Kids Count Data center is the premier source of data on children and families. The site allows users to filter and search through data that could be invaluable in writing grants or conducting nonprofit research.

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Just Look Left - Creative Grant Consulting provides a robust and tailored suite of grant writing & consulting services to impactful non-profits.

A Pacific Northwest-based, women-owned firm able to help you and your organization thrive no matter where you do your amazing work.

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In grant funds secured for clients in 2023, a sampling of our happy clients.

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Your mission is my mission:, grant writing & nonprofit consulting to start, grow, & sustain your organization, start, grow, sustain.

Your Mission Is My Mission

Whether you're just starting out or a veteran nonprofit leader or grant writer, I can help you maximize your chances for long-term success by developing the right growth strategies, finding the right grants, and writing the right narratives for your organization. I will make it easier for you to meet grant deadlines, build new partnerships, and access new resources to start, grow, or sustain your organization.

Idea Brainstorming

Budget Development

Program Development

Fundraising Plan Development 

Leadership Development

Capacity-Building

Grant Readiness Assessments

Grant Prospecting

Grant Writing 

Best Practices Research

Program Evaluation Planning 

Strategic Planning

Executive Coaching

Asset Mapping

Donor Relations

Grant Reporting

Partnership-Building/ Collective Impact Design

Board Development

Social Impact/ Program Evaluation

Success Story Documentation

Policy Analysis

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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of human history.”

--Mahatma Gandhi