Projects

Arts & Accessibility

Clovernook Center’s Braille Printing House is the largest braille printing house in the world. Through their Arts & Accessibility Initiative they support cultural institutions and museums throughout the United States, ensuring that individuals who are blind and visually impaired have high-quality accessible experiences alongside their sighted peers.

Thanks to the generosity of a local grant-maker, institutions such as The Met and Carnegie Hall will now receive an array of materials including braille, large print, tactile graphics in multiple formats, audio, print/braille, and signage, as well as accessibility consulting to evaluate an exhibit/gallery space, through Clovernook Center’s Arts & Accessibility Initiative.

Arts & Culture

Signs & Wonders is a short subset of Now. Here. This., a film celebrating the diversity and resilience of a Walnut Hills, a community boasting of a rich history: from its heyday in the 1900’s, to its near collapse as Interstate-71 split the neighborhood in two, to the quiet renaissance of today.

This film is collaborative effort between composer, producer, and Grammy nominee Ric Hordinski and award winning Photographer Michael Wilson, best known for his work in magazines like Fast Company and Mother Jones.

Major funding for the project is provided by ArtsWave and a LISC Grant.

Film and Television

For over 40 years, Film Cincinnati has been bringing film and television production to the Queen City. Their mission is to maximize the area’s economic potential by attracting, promoting, and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. 

They are credited with securing major motion pictures, including Miles Ahead, staring Don Cheadle and Ewan Mcgregor; Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara; Hillbilly Elegy, produced by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close; Bone & All, starring Timothee Chalamet; and most recently Shirley, written and directed by John Ridley, and starring Regina King.

Grant Writer Etc. has had the privilege of supporting Film Cincinnati’s grant seeking efforts by identifying and securing grant funding to move their mission forward, expand the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, and increase diversity within the local film industry.

Afterschool Programs

Rothenberg Rooftop School Garden is just one of the many non-profits that GWE has conducted prospect research for.

Rothenberg Rooftop Garden is an outdoor garden classroom that aims to enhance students’ development of critical thinking and 21st Century skills through hands-on application of classroom curriculum.

The garden integrates math, science, and language arts, to enhance students’ learning, develop critical thinking skills and foster stewardship of their surroundings and community.

Science & Research

GRI Disorders are rare genetic conditions with severe life-limiting consequences. CureGRIN Foundation strives to improve the lives of people around the world living with GRI Disorders, through research, education, and support. They support research in the following areas: Gene Therapies, drugs targeting NMDARs, and drugs targeting symptoms/downstream.

CureGRIN drives collaboration between scientists, clinicians, researchers, biotech companies, and patient advocates, sharing theories and results, animal models, and technologies. Through the GRI Research Accelerator Fund, CureGRIN provides millions of dollars toward GRI research.

Grant Writer Etc. had the privilege of conducting prospect research, developing a multi-year grant seeking strategy, and creating a compelling and comprehensive grant template to support their grant-seeking efforts.

Pediatric Health

This Pediatric Low Vision Clinic is the only one of its kind. Provided in partnership between Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the clinic offers comprehensive support and rehabilitation for children between the ages of 3-21 years old, who are living with permanent irreversible vision loss.

Their work is to enhance each child’s remaining vision and provide access to the visual environment inside the classroom and throughout daily life.

Grant Writer Etc. has help secure over $1 million in community-based foundation grants, to support the Clovernook Center’s Pediatric Low Vision Clinic.