If you have an idea for a program, GBA will research funding opportunities, link your organization with the best leads, and help you effectively approach funders. We have experience working on corporate, foundation, and government grants. Our staff provides grant management services, such as reviewing requests for proposals and providing a checklist of application requirements. GBA will support your grant development efforts, from reviewing and providing feedback on your grant application to writing full grant proposals designed to fund the services your community needs.

GBA provides grant writing training and technical assistance in partnership with other organizations to enhance the capacity of nonprofits, community-based organizations, Tribes, and tribal organizations. We provide the tools and resources to support organizations in building their internal skills and capacity to write competitive grant applications and support grants management.

GBA will work with your team on new and renewal applications, including initial designation applications (e.g., New Access Points) to renewals, such as Service Area Competitions and Renewals of Designation. For current and prospective Federally funded health centers, We support annual progress reports (e.g., Non-Competing Continuations, Annual Certifications), Operational Site Visit (OSV) preparation, Changes in Scope, and Federal Tort Claims Act (i.e., enrollment, redeeming applications, and compliance). We also help current and planned FQHCs and Look-Alikes with annual service area analyses, Uniform Data System (UDS) data collection and reporting, strategic planning, and consultation on potential geographic areas for service expansion.

We conduct qualitative and quantitative program analyses, including process and outcome evaluations, formative assessments to ensure compliance with goals and objectives, and quality improvement activities. Our reports give you a strategic edge when seeking future funding. We will manage your required assessments to satisfy contractual obligations while providing you with insight into the services you are providing. We will also recommend adjustments to maximize funder investment in your organization. 

We facilitate strategic planning processes involving board members, managers, and other stakeholders to help you develop a written strategic plan for your agency. This often includes conducting a thorough needs assessment and compiling data for presentation in tandem with facilitated meetings where responses to unmet needs and ideas are considered for charting your organizational future. We will draft, edit, and produce a final written strategic plan with metrics that guide your organization with purpose through the coming years.

We help you to establish a California nonprofit organization, including filing Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State and preparing applications to the Internal Revenue Service, Franchise Tax Board, and the California Department of Charities and Trusts. Services include determining an acceptable nonprofit name77, creating bylaws, and supporting documents as part of the application designation process.

We advise and draft applications for obtaining a California Community Clinic license to operate a nonprofit health center. We also help you prepare for the on-site inspection and provide written policies and procedures.

We will help you develop surveys to meet your organization's needs, programs, and services. We have experience assessing client experience/satisfaction, Board of Director assessments of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Board of Director self-assessments on their involvement in Board-related activities, employment engagement and staff morale surveys, behavioral health integration surveys, and more. Our services include the development of customized survey instruments and written reports on findings and presentations.

We will prepare a rigorous, representative needs assessment for any community, neighborhood, or jurisdiction. Our methods can include a combination of secondary data collection, community survey development and dissemination, focus groups, and key informant interviews based on your needs. Our analyses include resource mapping, subpopulation analysis, and perceptions of need. We will mine the data we compile to get the answers you need to assess current and potential new service opportunities.

We take a systematic approach to practical inquiry to inform projects that improve quality of life, address social challenges, and gain knowledge helpful in meeting community needs. We utilize rigorous social science methods of data collection and analysis. Our staff analyst will assess markets for existing or expanded health services, social services, and infrastructure requirements. We specialize in identifying potential markets for your services and framing your social and economic impact in ways that stakeholders understand your organization’s value to the community.

We use mapping programs and proprietary geographic databases of community demographic information to enable agencies to visualize their service delivery reach and potential areas for expansion, and to identify disparities within underserved populations and communities for potential expansion.

GBA works with Native American organizations and Tribes providing grant writing, needs assessment, and program evaluation services.  In addition to serving as program evaluators for several federally funded Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) grants to Native organizations, GBA has written applications and provided evaluation services for state-funded initiatives.  Additionally, GBA serves as an evaluation consultant as a subcontractor to the Indian Health Services (IHS) and the Agency for Native Americans (ANA), working with grantees from across the country on local and cross-site evaluations.  We are also acquainted with the literature by scholars, leaders, and providers discussing the impact of historical and intergenerational trauma and unresolved grief on the health and well-being of individuals and families. GBA principals also have published referred journal articles on conducting evaluations within Native American communities.