Full-service grant and fund development for nonprofits doing essential work in health, mental health, environment, housing, workforce development, and education.
A curated, qualified funder prospect list matched to your programs. We analyze actual giving histories, not just stated guidelines, and deliver a focused list of funders whose money already moves toward work like yours.
Purchase Grant ResearchFull-service grant development from strategy and funder targeting through narratives, budgets, and submission. We handle foundation, corporate, state, and complex federal applications, built around your program model and community data, never boilerplate.
A reusable master application built around your organization: master narratives, budget architecture, logic models, and an attachment vault your team deploys cycle after cycle. Built once, used for every application that follows.
Post-award support that keeps your grants in good standing: compliance tracking, progress reports, budget monitoring, and funder communication. Ideal for organizations managing multiple active awards.
Our flagship engagement. We step in as your fractional fund development department, building and running your fundraising operation alongside your leadership. That means diversified revenue strategy, individual donor development and pipelines, major gifts cultivation, campaign design, and board fundraising coaching, working alongside your team, not around it. Engagements scale with where you are, whether you're building dedicated fundraising capacity or leveling up an operation that has outgrown its systems, so your funding grows beyond any single grant cycle.
Compliance consulting for organizations managing grant funds. We are not your auditor, your accountant, or your tax preparer; we are the team that gets you ready for all three.
A structured engagement that reviews your financial documentation, grant files, internal controls, and reporting practices. We identify gaps, build remediation plans, and prepare your team, whether or not we wrote your grants.
Capacity building training scoped to your team, covering grant development, fundraising, operations, and board governance, with practical AI skills woven through all of it. Delivered as live workshops with pre-work and post-session materials, for a single team or your whole organization.
Ready-to-use AI skill packs, templates, and training content built for nonprofit grant, fundraising, and operations work. Founding member spots open soon, and the waitlist hears first. Join below for early access.
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"I've had the greatest experience working with Nichole and her expertise has brought great success to our nonprofit! She is extremely knowledgeable about the structure of nonprofits, budgets, fundraising campaigns, fundraising events, board structures, and so much more. She is extremely creative with ideas and I consider myself fortunate to be able to drink from Nichole's fountain of knowledge and creativity which has led to tremendous growth for our nonprofit. Nichole tailor-made services that fit with the mission of our organization and she is always committed to our success while always delivering what she promises. I am most grateful to Nichole for helping our organization grow and I highly recommend her services!"
"Nichole is excellent to work with! As a small nonprofit that provides information and resources to Seniors, Caregivers and Professionals regardless of income level, RI Elder Info sometimes finds it challenging to find funding that fits. Nichole was able to locate grants that were not well known that fund in the areas that RI Elder Info works in. She was able to identify functions that RI Elder Info could restructure to create stronger grant proposals that could potentially be funded in the future. Her professional insight was invaluable and she was excellent to work with! I highly recommend her!"
"Nichole is an excellent fundraising consultant! She helped us improve our fundraising strategy with great advice, new tools, and practical tips. Nichole learned our organization quickly and offered creative solutions to our current challenges. Her work was timely, thorough, and on-point. So glad we had the opportunity to engage with her!"
Funding in Reach is a full-service grant and fund development agency working with organizations across the United States. We specialize in helping health, human services, environmental, and community-focused nonprofits build the funding infrastructure they need to grow, and the compliance infrastructure they need to sustain it.
Funding in Reach was founded by Nichole Albanese, MPA, GPC, who brings 20+ years of experience securing federal and foundation funding across the full spectrum of human services. We bring the same rigor to a $10,000 grant as to a $20 million federal award.
"We don't just write grants. We build the case, the compliance, and the capacity that make funding sustainable."
One call diagnoses where you are: grants, fundraising, compliance, or team capacity. We listen first, then recommend the right path, whether that's a single funder list or a full-service partnership.