My Grant Copilot

06/01/2026

🚨 Nonprofit Leaders: Stop Chasing Every Grant

One of the biggest mistakes we see is organizations applying for grants simply because they’re available.

The strongest funding strategies focus on:

✅ Mission alignment
✅ Funder fit
✅ Organizational readiness
✅ Relationship building

A $50,000 grant you’re well-positioned for is worth far more than ten opportunities you’ll never realistically win.

At My Grant CoPilot, we help nonprofits spend less time searching and more time pursuing opportunities that make strategic sense.

Want to talk about the future of funding, technology, and community wealth-building?

Join us during CT Tech Week for a free community conversation:

🎟️ https://luma.com/15h12cvf

Community FinTech: How to Build Financial Infrastructure for the Creative Economy

📍 Mercado Popular, Hartford, CT
🍎 Local farm-raised refreshments
🍺 Spiked cider
👥 Limited seating

What grant strategy challenge is your organization facing right now?

www.mygigtok.com www.mygrantcopilot.com www.mercadopop.shop The conversation is inspired by “The…

05/31/2026

💡 Small Team? You Don’t Need More Work. You Need Better Systems.

Many nonprofits, community organizations, and startups are operating with teams of 1–5 people.

That means one person may be handling:

• Fundraising
• Program delivery
• Reporting
• Marketing
• Partnerships
• Administration

The answer isn’t working harder.

The answer is building systems that help small teams focus on high-value work.

That’s one reason we built My Grant CoPilot—to help organizations organize funding opportunities, track deadlines, and make smarter decisions about where to invest their limited time.

If you’re interested in how technology can strengthen local economies and support mission-driven work, we’d love to meet you.

Join us during CT Tech Week:

🎟️ https://luma.com/15h12cvf

Community FinTech: How to Build Financial Infrastructure for the Creative Economy

Let’s discuss the future of funding, trust, and community infrastructure together

www.mygigtok.com www.mygrantcopilot.com www.mercadopop.shop The conversation is inspired by “The…

05/30/2026

🚨 Nonprofit Leaders: Stop Chasing Every Grant

One of the biggest mistakes we see is organizations applying for grants simply because they’re available.

The strongest funding strategies focus on:

👏🏼Mission alignment
💲Funder fit
💼Organizational readiness
🙋🏽‍♂️Relationship building

A $50,000 grant you’re well-positioned for is worth far more than ten opportunities you’ll never realistically win.

At My Grant CoPilot, we help nonprofits spend less time searching and more time pursuing opportunities that make strategic sense.

Want to talk about the future of funding, technology, and community wealth-building?

Join us during CT Tech Week for a free community conversation:

🎟️ https://luma.com/15h12cvf

Community FinTech: How to Build Financial Infrastructure for the Creative Economy

📍 Mercado Popular, Hartford, CT
🍎 Local farm-raised refreshments
🍺 Spiked cider
👥 Limited seating

What grant strategy challenge is your organization facing right now?

www.mygigtok.com www.mygrantcopilot.com www.mercadopop.shop The conversation is inspired by “The…

05/29/2026

Fiscal sponsors are quietly powering some of the most innovative work in America.

Artists.Community organizers. Farmers. Youth programs. Healing justice initiatives. Creative entrepreneurs.

Yet many sponsorship organizations are overwhelmed by the administrative demands of supporting dozens—or even hundreds—of projects.

My Grant CoPilot was designed with this reality in mind.

Imagine being able to:
• Match projects to funding opportunities
• Track grant deadlines
• Monitor proposal progress
• Maintain institutional knowledge
• Scale support without scaling staff

Technology should strengthen relationships, not replace them.

That's the philosophy behind everything we build.

How are you helping sponsored projects navigate today's funding landscape? Let’s discuss during CT Tech Week! RSVP 👇🏼

https://luma.com/15h12cvf

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05/28/2026

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Artists, organizers, and community builders are constantly told to “do more with less.”

Less funding.
Less support.
Less institutional access.

Yet these same communities are often the ones holding neighborhoods together culturally, emotionally, and economically.

My Grant CoPilot (https://mygrantcopilot.com) was built from a simple belief:

Access to funding intelligence should not be a luxury product.

At CT Tech Week, we’ll be exploring how AI tools, creative economies, and local ecosystems can help communities build more sustainable pathways to opportunity.

Not just for venture-backed startups.
But for artists, cultural workers, nonprofits, educators, and grassroots builders too.

Because innovation also lives in community spaces, food hubs, local art scenes, and mutual support networks.

05/12/2026

Most people think the future of work is just AI.

I don’t.

I believe the future belongs to platforms and ecosystems that help people access opportunity more intelligently, more equitably, and with greater strategic clarity.

For too long, grant funding has operated like fragmented infrastructure:
- overwhelming databases
- hidden relationships
- scattered information
- consultant gatekeeping
- endless searching without strategy

That’s part of why I built My Grant CoPilot.

MGC is not just a grant search tool.

It’s an evolving funding ecosystem designed to combine:
• AI-powered discovery
• strategic interpretation
• emotional intelligence
• ecosystem understanding

Because organizations don’t just need more information.

They need:
- clarity
- alignment
- guidance
- visibility
- and systems that reduce friction instead of increasing it

As AI continues reshaping labor and access, I believe one of the most important questions we can ask is:

“How do we build technology that still feels human?”

That question matters deeply for:
- artists
- grassroots organizations
- entrepreneurs
- healers
- nonprofits
- and underresourced communities navigating increasingly complex systems

The future is not just automation.

The future is intelligent coordination.

And the organizations that thrive will be the ones that can combine technology, relationships, and strategic insight into real ecosystems of opportunity.

If you’re building community-centered work and looking for aligned funding opportunities, I’d love for you to explore MGC and share feedback as we continue evolving the platform.

Visit:
https://mygrantcopilot.com

04/24/2026

🚨 Most grant proposals get rejected before a funder even finishes reading page one.

Not because the work isn't real. Not because the organization isn't qualified.

Because the proposal doesn't clearly answer the questions a funder is actually asking:

→ Can this organization actually do what they're claiming? → Does the budget match the scope of work? → Is this the right funder for this project? → What's missing that I need before I can say yes?

Most grant writers don't get honest feedback on any of this until after the rejection letter arrives.

That's the gap we built the Proposal Strategy Advisor to close.

Upload your draft to My Grant CoPilot. Graham — our AI grant advisor — reads your proposal and gives you a full strategy report before you submit. Not cheerleading. Not generic tips. Specific analysis: what's working, what's missing, which funders to approach first, and the one thing that could cost you the award if you don't fix it.

It's the review you should have gotten before you hit send.

Log in at MyGrantCoPilot.com and run your proposal through it today.

Because a rewrite before submission is a lot less painful than a rejection after.

Visit mygrantcopilot.com to view your grants dashboard or book a 30-min call to discuss your grant writing needs at
https://calendly.com/mygrantcopilot-info/meeting. ✅

04/21/2026

Two Free Workshops. Limited Seats.
May 19 · June 10 · Virtual (Zoom)

I've moved our spring workshops — and made them free.

If you've been meaning to sharpen your grant writing, now is the time. Both sessions are hands-on, and designed for people doing real work with limited staff and tight deadlines. No fluff. No generics. Just the structure and strategy that actually helps proposals get funded.
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🟦 Workshop — Free
Grant Writing Bootcamp: Foundations & Frameworks
📅 May 19, 2026 · 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET · Virtual (Zoom)

A focused three-hour session on the core structure of a competitive proposal — problem statement, goals and objectives, budget narrative, and evaluation plan. Bring a real project. You'll leave with a working draft outline and direct feedback.

For: First-time grant writers, nonprofit staff taking on fundraising responsibilities, and organizations preparing for a major funding push in 2026.

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🟦 Strategyclass — Free
Funder Alignment: How to Match Your Mission to the Money
📅 June 10, 2026 · 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET · Virtual (Zoom)

Most grant rejections aren't about the quality of the work — they're about a mismatch between the proposal and what the funder is actually funding. This session covers how to read an RFP strategically, identify the right funders before you write a word, and build genuine alignment without copying the funder's language back to them.

Includes a live proposal review. Bring a draft or a funder you're targeting.
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Both of these workshops came out of conversations with grant writers who know their work but struggle with the structural side of applying — not because they lack knowledge, but because no one has walked them through a repeatable process.

That's what these sessions are built to do. And because I want the people who need them to be able to attend, they're free.

Space is limited by design. I keep these small so real work can happen.

👉 Register at mygrantcopilot.com or email [email protected] to reserve your seat.

— Ira Revels
Founder, My Grant CoPilot · mygrantcopilot.com

Helping nonprofits and small businesses secure funding with AI and human strategy.

04/19/2026

Most people don't lose grants because they're bad writers. They lose them because they found out too late.

My Grant CoPilot lets you save your search criteria — focus area, location, organization type, funding range — and get notified when new matching opportunities come in. You set it once. The platform watches for you.

That means when a foundation opens a new cycle that fits exactly what your organization does, you're not finding out from a colleague three days before the deadline. You already know.

Discovery isn't a one-time search. It's an ongoing process. Build it into your workflow.

👉 Set up your saved searches at MyGrantCoPilot.com

Helping nonprofits and small businesses secure funding with AI and human strategy.