Grant Writing

Westar Trade Resources has successfully obtained over $2 million in grant funds for clients from public and private sources. Sources of funding for your project include:

• Government funding at the local, regional, state and national levels.
  
• Private foundation and corporate resources.

Services for our clients include:

• Development of program concepts and implementation strategies that adhere to guidelines detailed in grantor requests for proposals.
  
• Assembly of information (including project nature, objectives/outcomes/deliverables, implementation, methods, timetable, staffing, budget, standards of performance, and evaluation) to meet all requirements of the request for proposal guidelines.
  
• Drafting, revising and editing of proposal documents.
  
• Ability to meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information gathering, document preparation, document review and approval.

"Westar Trade Resources has served as an excellent resource for our energy projects, providing high level useful contacts and information.  Thyfault's facilitation skills have directly resulted in multi-million dollar contracts/grants for our group."

M. Joseph Ahrens, PhD
Sr. VP Technology and Business Development
United Power Company, LLC