Virginia Christian Grant Writing Consultancy Celebrates 10 Year Milestone

Front Royal, VA -- Here-4-You Christian Grant Consulting, a northern Virginia-based company that provides funding development and grant writing services mostly for Christian churches and ministries, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month.
To mark the occasion, the business is offering discounts on all its services in the first three months of 2010. This includes its Jump Start, Grant Catalyst, Grant Ready, and Full Service Packages, its Grant Feasibility and Grant Market Analysis, and its Christian Funding Directory.
Here-4-You Christian Grant Consulting was founded in February 2000 by Jeffrey Rodman initially on a part-time basis. By 2004, however, he had developed enough of a client base to leave his full-time job as a nonprofit executive director to devote all of his working hours to his company.
Mr. Rodman, a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and a certified Grants Specialist (CGS), is a nationally-respected authority on grant writing for Christian ministries and churches as well as a sought-after speaker. But he didn’t originally plan to make Christian organizations the sole beneficiaries of his expertise.
“Right after I quit my job the Lord spoke to my heart and told me that my grant writing company should be a grant writing ministry and should focus exclusively on Christian ministries and churches. I thought this was a terrible idea…but I was obedient and changed my focus. By the time I left my job I had already hired two part-time staff members to help with the ministries and churches I was serving. I now have three full-time staff members in the U.S. and part time staff members in the UK.”
Here-4-You Christian Grant Consulting has served churches and ministries in 40 states and 30 countries. At this time it is working with clients in 17 states and five foreign countries -- Uganda, South Africa, the Philippines, Canada, and India.
“The Lord has truly blessed my ministry,” Mr. Rodman said.
It is nominally a business, but it might as well be a nonprofit, Mr. Rodman emphasized.
“Although we are legally a for-profit, we operate on a break even basis and function like a nonprofit. The company has never made a profit and when profits were realized, as they were in late 2009, we decided to offer specials and discounts and make our services available to more ministries,” he said.
Mr. Rodman said the services his firm offers explain its growth.
“Here-4-You Christian Grant Consulting is the only grant writing company specifically focused on Christian ministries and churches. Additionally, we have developed a Christian Funding Directory, which is now the world’s largest directory of funding sources for Christian ministries and churches with over 7,500 funding sources listed. And our website, www.npfunds.com, has become the web portal of resources for Christian ministries and churches. It lists dozens of articles, sample grants, and other content.”
Mr. Rodman plans to offer more services in the future. As one example, “Our goal is to add a bookstore focused on grant writing and development resources relevant to Christian ministries,” he said.
Here-4-You Christian Grant Consulting specializes in offering affordable services as a Christian fundraiser. It staffs a team of specialists to research funding sources and write grant proposals to help secure funds. They can be reached toll-free at 866-HERE-4-U-1. The purpose is to help the organizations it serves develop in strength, longevity, and efficiency and “to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, for building the body of Christ” (KJV Ephesians 4:12).