Company Profile
Elevate
Company Overview
Elevate works with effective and ambitious nonprofit organizations with the goal of making life easier for their leaders, improving their program outcomes, and building more sustainable organizations capable of doing the hard, day-to-day work of meaningful social change.
We work with nonprofits to research, draft, and submit grants to private, corporate, and public agencies. Our team of 60+ full-time staff has extensive experience with grant writing, prospect identification and research, as well as crafting meaningful cultivation, stewardship, and development strategies.
Company History
Elevate was founded by CEO Alayna Buckner in January 2013. As an experienced grants consultant, she saw the need for an improved contract grant writing experience that was more affordable.
At the time, she was mentoring enthusiastic, intelligent, early-career writers who wanted to use their skills to help nonprofits and wanted to figure out a way to serve organizations of all sizes—who desperately needed hard working, talented grant writers.
Building and maintaining an effective grant writing program requires strategy and deep knowledge about nonprofits, program design, funders, and the sector—as well as massive attention to detail and lots of administrative work: tracking deadlines, and creating, compiling, and updating attachments.
The solution: a team of people. Segmented and shared responsibilities. Talented, but less experienced, professionals being mentored by experts—making the grant writing product more affordable and more effective—with more people thinking about strategy, more people identifying opportunities, and a lot more capacity.
Now more than seven years in to this experiment, Elevate has grown from a single desk in a shared workspace, to a team of over 60 — including exceptional institutional fundraising strategists, talented grant writers, project coordinators, and training professionals.
Across our entire team, you’ll find a deep, authentic passion for the success of our clients. We are excited to help them grow and committed to them achieving their missions.
Benefits
We believe a compensation package is more than just a salary.
Our benefits include, but not limited to:
- Flexible scheduling
- 15 paid vacation and 5 paid sick days annually
- $500 annual professional development stipend
- Health/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k) with 2% match
- STD/LTD/Life insurance
- Up to $50 monthly reimbursement for phone/internet costs
- $100 annual home office stipend and additional $100 home office set up stipend
- All staff are currently working remotely during pandemic!