Grant writing is the signature. It is not the whole practice.

Alta Vista Education Partners provides strategic consulting to schools, school districts, charter organizations, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and community based organizations. The work below spans more than twenty years across K-12, charter schools, higher education, workforce development, curriculum and instruction, and organizational leadership.

Six areas. Grant development is the specialty, and the rest is the reason the grants get implemented once they land.

Signature specialty

Grant writing and funding development

Support across the whole funding lifecycle, from identifying opportunities and developing competitive proposals through to the systems for implementation, compliance, evaluation and sustainability.

Grant research and identification of federal, state, foundation, corporate and community funding opportunities
Grant readiness assessments
Competitive grant proposal development and writing
Needs statements and organizational narratives
Program design and theory of change development
Goals, objectives, activities, outputs and measurable outcomes
Grant budgets and budget narratives
Letters of intent and concept papers
Grant application review and editing
Grant implementation planning
Compliance and performance monitoring
Grant reporting and evaluation support
Sustainability and continuation planning
Development of funding pipelines and multi-year grant strategies

Grounded in direct experience writing, securing, implementing and managing multimillion dollar initiatives, including work as grant writer and manager on a Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant, foundation and community grants, and leadership of a City of San Antonio Ready to Work grant at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. See the record, with sources.

Districts, charters, nonprofits

Educational leadership and school improvement

Consulting and executive level support for traditional public schools, charter schools, educational nonprofits, and organizations building new educational programs.

Strategic and campus improvement planning
Charter school planning and program development
School start-up and organizational readiness
Instructional leadership
School turnaround strategy
Leadership coaching and capacity building
Performance management and accountability systems
Program implementation and monitoring
Data-driven continuous improvement
Student intervention and acceleration systems
Bilingual and multilingual education
Parent and family engagement
Special projects and educational initiatives

Teaching and learning

Curriculum, instruction and professional development

From bilingual classroom teaching through campus administration to district curriculum leadership, help with the quality and consistency of teaching and learning.

Curriculum development and alignment
Curriculum audits and gap analyses
HQIM implementation support
Assessment development
Instructional coaching systems
Professional learning design
PLC and data-cycle development
RTI and intervention systems
Bilingual education programming
Professional development for teachers, instructional coaches, principals and organizational leaders

Infrastructure

Strategic planning and organizational development

Organizations often need more than a strong program. They need the organizational infrastructure to sustain it, and a way to move from vision to implementation.

Organizational strategic planning
Mission, vision and goal development
Organizational needs assessments
Program design and implementation planning
Policies, procedures and operational systems
Organizational structure and staffing recommendations
Partnership and MOU development
Board and leadership planning
Budget and resource alignment
Performance measures, KPIs and dashboards
Sustainability and growth planning

Education to economic mobility

Workforce development and college and career readiness

Drawing on leadership of education-to-career initiatives, programs that connect education with economic mobility.

Workforce program design
Career pathway development
Industry and employer engagement
Work-based learning strategies
Adult learner programming
Industry-recognized credential pathways
College and career readiness programs
Wraparound support models
Education, employer and community partnerships

Reach and sustainability

Community engagement and partnership development

Partnerships that increase an organization's reach, resources and long term sustainability.

Stakeholder engagement strategies
Community needs assessments
Partnership development
Employer engagement
Family engagement
Nonprofit and higher education partnerships
Community outreach
Recruitment and marketing strategies
Development of MOUs and collaborative agreements

What ties it together

From vision, to funding, to implementation.

Rather than treating grant writing as an isolated service, the work supports clients across the full life of an initiative: fundable ideas backed by real programs, measurable outcomes, working partnerships and a plan for what happens after the money lands.

01Identify the need
02Develop the strategy
03Find the funding
04Write the grant
05Launch the program
06Monitor performance
07Demonstrate impact
08Build for sustainability

She has not only written applications. She has designed programs, secured funding, managed grants, supervised implementation, monitored compliance, built partnerships and evaluated results.

Start with a conversation.

She will ask what you are trying to fund, what you have already been told about it, and where the organization is trying to get to.

Start the inventory connect@altavistaeducationpartners.org (214) 755-0155