Connecting grant writers with grant seekers is a shift in focus for Richmond startup Grantable Inc., whose founder and CEO Philip Deng recently refined the operation and brought on co-founder Robert Lee, launching after participation in the Lighthouse Labs accelerator.
Deng previously thought his venture would simply provide tools and resources for grant seekers.
“The tool is just one way that people want help with grants,” said Deng. “The main request from different organizations was ‘Do you know any grant writers? We have all these grants. We don’t have enough time.’”
Deng was inspired to start Grantable by his personal experience working as nonprofit founder who came up short on grants. He later found success as a staff grant writer with a large nonprofit as well as a freelance grant writer. The new emphasis for the company addresses feedback on how he said the grant-writing process is disconnected and opaque.
“We realized we should really focus on helping these two…
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