Before You Ask for a Dime: Building the Infrastructure That Funders Want to See

Before You Ask for a Dime is book 4 in the Inspired Logic Consulting Book Series. It covers the work that comes before the application. Being grant ready means your organization is built to hold up when a funder, a bank, or a partner looks you up. Your name is clear. Your records match. Your numbers hold together. Your story and your paperwork say the same thing. Learn how to structure a business that can be funded, assess the infrastructure you already have, set up your financial systems and stay compliant, build your documentation library, write an honest organizational narrative, get your board and leadership ready, design a program with a logic model behind it, build a grant budget, set up evaluation and measurement, handle your technology and data, build real partnerships, and pull all of it into an action plan you can work at your own pace. The last chapter is an AI prompt library you can use the day you open the book. The prompts walk you through your budget, your bylaws, your policies and procedures, your operating agreement, your base narrative, and your tracking sheet, with a human in the loop on every one. You do not have to be a nonprofit to apply for grants. For profit businesses qualify for funding too. This book is written for both, side by side, and where the two paths split it stops and shows you each one. Donna Minton Williams is a Certified AI Consultant and Certified Grant Writer with nearly 40 years of executive level management experience. She writes the way she works, plain and direct, and she gives away what she paid to learn.