Good work deserves strong funding.
Lauren Villa Consulting helps nonprofits identify the right opportunities, tell their story clearly, and build grant programs that can grow with their mission.
Support across the full grant lifecycle.
From finding the right prospects to final reporting, Lauren can step into one project or serve as an ongoing extension of your fundraising team.
Prospect Research
Identify funders whose priorities, geography, and giving history align with your programs, so your team spends time on credible opportunities.
Grant Writing
Develop clear, persuasive proposals that connect your mission, outcomes, budget, and story to what the funder needs to understand.
Grant Reporting
Translate program results, financial information, and impact data into thoughtful reports that strengthen long-term funder relationships.
Funding Strategy
Build a practical plan around organizational readiness, existing relationships, priorities, deadlines, and realistic funding opportunities.
Ongoing Grants Management
Keep the pipeline moving with research, calendars, proposals, reporting, follow-up, and coordination across the entire grants lifecycle.
Focused experience in mission-driven work.
Lauren works with nonprofits, with especially deep program knowledge and funder familiarity in four areas.
Youth Development & Youth Sports
Transition-Aged Foster Youth
Environmental Causes
Mental Health Services
“I’ve worked on both sides of the funding relationship.”
Lauren came up through nonprofit grant work, so she understands tight budgets, competing priorities, and what it takes to get a proposal out the door.
She has also worked inside corporate giving programs at companies including Apple and Patagonia. That perspective helps her think about proposals through the lens of how funders evaluate priorities, partnerships, and fit.
Most importantly, she gets curious about the work. The goal is to understand the program well enough to communicate what makes it worth funding, not simply drop information into a template.
Practical, collaborative, and built around fit.
The process starts with understanding where your organization is today, then building the right level of support around it.
Understand the organization
Get clear on your programs, outcomes, funding history, capacity, and what your team is trying to accomplish.
Assess grant readiness
For newer organizations, identify what needs to be in place before investing heavily in grant applications.
Prioritize the right opportunities
For established organizations, assess the current pipeline and focus energy on funders with credible alignment.
Execute and manage
Move from research to proposals, reporting, deadlines, and ongoing funder stewardship with a clear process.
Experience navigating respected Southern California funders.
Lauren has grant experience involving organizations such as:
Organizations listed reflect grant-related experience and are not presented as consulting clients or endorsements.
Start with where you are.
A discovery call is a chance to understand your current grant program, determine what support would be useful, and see whether working together makes sense.
Book a Discovery CallWe’ll look at whether you’re grant-ready and what needs to be in place before you begin pursuing funding.
We’ll look at your current funding approach, pipeline, funder relationships, and where stronger opportunities may exist.
Let’s talk about your grant program.
Prefer email? Reach Lauren directly at hello@laurenvilla.com.