Grant Writing
Secure Funds and Lift Community
Supporting Leaders with Grants
You face significant challenges in your crucial leadership role.
The demands on your time can make the complex process of researching, preparing, and submitting grant applications overwhelming. That's where we step in to support.
Our dedicated team align with your community's unique goals and projects and work to secure the essential funds and resources you need. We support you to focus on what truly matters—leading and uplifting your community.
CEO of the Chard Métis Nation and the Chard Métis Dene Group of Companies, Justin Herman, speaks how Axioma helped his community.
I have known Rolando for close to 15 years and I highly recommend him. Not only has he shown to be very effective in securing funding but his dedication to communities along with his understanding of the many challenges Settlements and Nations face provides a solid foundation for him to support in securing strategic grants.
Alex Okinczyc
Manager, Community and Indigenous Affairs at Cenovus Energy
Effective Grant Writing
Welcome to Axioma, where your unique needs and aspirations come first.
Our grant writing services are tailored to minimize your financial risk, ensure transparency, and build long-term partnerships for sustainable growth. We only succeed when you do!
While we specialize in supporting Indigenous Communities, we are also serve Non-Profit organizations.
Benefits of Our Approach
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Your community's success is our top priority. We achieve this by aligning our fees with successful grant applications, ensuring that you face minimal financial burden.
Rest assured, if grants aren't secured, your resources are safeguarded with our minimal, monthly fees, giving you peace of mind as you focus on your mission and goals. We are committed to supporting your community every step of the way.
We only succeed when you do.
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Our success-based payment model provides clear expectations for both parties, outlining specific roles, responsibilities, and deliverables at each level. This approach ensures a transparent and fair process throughout our partnership, helping to foster mutual understanding and collaboration.
By clearly defining each phase and the success-based payment structure, we aim to build trust and achieve shared goals efficiently.
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We aim to build stronger, long-lasting relationships with Indigenous communities by fostering open communication and mutual respect. Our goal is to provide personalized services tailored to the unique cultural and social contexts of your community.
Through collaboration and ongoing dialogue, and participation at community events, we strive to develop a deeper understanding of your needs, ensuring our efforts are aligned with your values and aspirations.
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Our incremental success-based payment model incentivizes us to secure as much grant funding as possible, ensuring your community benefits from our continued performance.
We only succeed when you do.
Why Choose Us?
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Understanding your community's unique needs and goals is our focus, ensuring our grant proposals align with your distinct stories and aspirations.
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Understanding your financial constraints, we provide a low-risk model with minimal upfront costs designed to support your success.
Our success is directly linked to the success of your grant applications.
We only succeed when you do.
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Building long-term relationships with you is a key goal. By ensuring personalized and effective services tailored to meet the unique and evolving needs of your community.
We strive to understand your specific goals and challenges, allowing us to provide solutions that foster growth and success over time. By maintaining open communication and collaboration, we aim to create a partnership that addresses current requirements and anticipates future opportunities.
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We maintain strict confidentiality with any information shared with us, ensuring your community's data, documents, and discussions are secure throughout the grant process.
How it Works?
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We arrange an onboarding session to understand your current level of grant readiness, identify your community’s top priorities, review the fee structure and terms, and address any questions you may have.
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We identify the most suitable grant opportunities that align with your community’s needs and goals.
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Our team collaborates with you to develop compelling grant applications, ensuring all supporting documentation is assembled.
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We handle the submission process and follow up with funding agencies to maximize your chances of success.
We also schedule monthly "check-in" meetings to talk about priorities, upcoming grants, and provide an update on progress.
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We understand the crucial importance of interim and final reporting in the grant cycle and how it can be a demanding and time-consuming process.
Our team will handle many aspects including preparing your team for evaluations/data collection, completing the analysis, and draft the reports. Your team will be responsible for preparing financial documentation.
This value-added service is at no extra cost so long as we remain on a retainer. Once the retainer ends, so does the report writing service.
Frequently Asked Questions
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After a contract is signed and before you first meet with us, we will send a checklist of items we need (i.e. our onboarding package).
After our first meeting, we will develop a plan of potential grants to apply for. Once you approve that, and we have gathered all the required items, we will start.
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If we can submit the application, we will. If you are required to submit it, we will give you step-by-step instructions. It’s very important to let us know once you’ve done that so we stop checking-in with you.
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Axioma’s name is not on the application because we will communicate using the email address you assign to us (e.g. grants@yourcommunity.ca). Again, this is helpful to funders to show that we are representing your community’s interests. Most often it is this email receiving notifications.
Usually, it takes between three to six months before we hear back from funders.
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It’s part of our commitment, so long as we remain on retainer and there are no outstanding invoices, to lead the reporting requirements. That said, your team will need to complete the financial reporting. We will send calendar reminders and schedule meeting invites, with plenty of advance notice, to ensure ample time to get the work done.
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Our comprehensive report writing service is exclusively available as part of our monthly retainer agreement.
For as long as we are on the monthly retainer, we are pleased to offer our support in preparing and submitting these reports, with assistance from your team.
Should the retainer services cease or any invoice is outstanding, this value-added service will terminate.
About Us
Axioma Consulting Limited (Axioma) focuses on working with Indigenous communities and other organizations wanting to progress work with Indigenous People.
Axioma was founded by Rolando Inzunza in 2019. Rolando, originally from Chile, S.A., came to Canada as a political refugee. Rolando has 15 years of experience working directly with Indigenous communities in various roles. He also has 25+ years of experience developing and leading successful strategies related to business development, communications, and engagement.
Rolando has worked with many First Nations, Métis communities, and Indigenous organizations across the country, including Driftpile Cree Nation, Fort McMurray 468 First Nation, Fort McKay First Nation, the Athabasca Tribal Council (ATC), The Métis Nation of Alberta, McMurray Métis, Lac Ste. Anne Métis Community Association, the Northeastern Alberta Aboriginal Business Association (NAABA), Temagami First Nation, Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), the Fireweed Fellowship, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, and more.
Axioma is Spanish for axiom. The word axiom was chosen as one definition is "a starting place for conversation," reflecting our belief in respect, humility, a willingness to ask questions and learn, and the courage to speak wisely.
