Anchored support for mission-aligned giving.
Harborline Grants provides part-time grantmaking operations support — experienced, organized, and ready for a busy cycle or the projects you've set aside.
Many foundations, trusts, and scholarship programs steward significant charitable resources with volunteer trustees or lean staff. Whether a funding cycle is peaking or a project keeps slipping down the list, the work can outpace the hours a lean team has to give it.
A full-time program officer costs $90K–$120K+ annually. Most organizations need that expertise in focused bursts — a busy cycle, an interim gap, or a specific project — not as a year-round salary.
RFP drafting, intake, eligibility screening, reviewer coordination, and board-ready packets.
Full lifecycle award processing, budget and risk review, monitoring, closeout, and audit support.
Impact synthesis, dashboards, annual snapshots, and board-facing materials.
Seasonal reinforcement, staffing-gap coverage, and rapid-response fund administration.
SOP development, grants-management/CRM selection and setup, data migration, and serving as your point person for grants software.
Market research to validate genuine need, gap analysis against existing funders, and fit-testing a proposed new grant against your mission and parameters.
Reviewer calibration, grants management guidance, and board onboarding.
Screening, scoring, ranking & board summary for high-volume cycles.
Reviewer calibration, comparative analysis, and decision-ready board packets.
End-to-end: RFP through closeout, with reporting & learning synthesis.
Ongoing partnership or targeted support, scaled to your needs.
13+ years across community development, sustainability, nonprofit work, federal contracting, grantmaking, grant writing, monitoring & evaluation, and international relations. Most recently managed USAID-funded portfolios serving 120+ NGOs and ~$29M in annual funding. M.S. Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University. Active secret security clearance.
A full-time program officer costs $90K–$120K+ annually. Harborline provides that same expertise — only when you need it.
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