How it works
Three steps.Two of them are ours.
Your school’s time is the scarcest thing in the building, so we take every step we can.
What’s the catch?
There isn’t one. This should have existed a long time ago.
- 01You
Tell us what you need.
A short form or a 20-minute call. Vague is fine: “Our paras need training” is a complete answer.
- 02Us
We do the legwork.
Research, eligibility, writing, budget, filing. Every two weeks you get a list of what we filed for you, with a copy of each.
- 03Us
The money goes to work.
The funder pays your school. We send an award plan and handle the reports.
GuideEvery step and hour we take off your plate:What a Grant Really Takes
What you don’t need
- A grants office or development director
- Any grant-writing experience
- A funder in mind
- Board approval just to ask us
If your district needs board approval to apply or accept, we plan around your board’s meeting dates.
- Tell us the need
- Approve your grant plan once
- Sign one agreement
- Find funders that fit
- Confirm eligibility
- Track deadlines
- Write the narrative
- Build the budget
- Gather attachments
- File on time
- Write the reports
How funds are handled
Your school is the applicant.The money goes to you.
Legwork never holds award money. If a funder will only pay a nonprofit, or pays an educator directly, we explain the options and put it in writing before anything is filed.
What you sign
Only the decision maker signs: the educator for their own grant, or the principal or district for a school grant. One short agreement and one grant plan cover every application. It gives us no power to accept money or sign contracts for you.
If the answer is no
We tell you why, what the funder said, and whether to revise and try again.
Reporting
We draft the reports, gather what we need from you, and file them on time.
We can’t promise funding.Nobody can.
We promise a straight answer, a professional application, and the follow-through to try again.