My name is Katie LeDoux and I am the Founder and Executive Director of Sunflower Grant Writers, a unique company based out of Omaha, NE. My friends would describe me as dedicated, creative, diligent, and festive. At Sunflower, my team and I provide highly personalized grant research and grant writing services to primarily large organizations –both nonprofit and mission driven for-profits. And through our Grant School 101 we help smaller organizations looking to do more of the work themselves achieve success on their terms.
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Vision
To provide exceptional grant services that equip changemaking organizations to strengthen their communities.
Mission
To help purpose-driven leaders win funding with smart strategy, bright storytelling, and a collaborative, joyfully festive approach to every grant.
Sunflower Values
Integrity
We are honest, transparent, and ethical in our recommendations, our writing, and our stewardship of client information and funds.
Innovation
We adapt quickly, think creatively, and design grant strategies that respond to changing funding landscapes and community needs.
Accountability
We own our work, meet deadlines, and maintain strong internal quality controls so clients can rely on what we deliver.
Dependability
We show up consistently, communicate clearly, and stay with our partners throughout the funding lifecycle.
Collaboration – We listen deeply, co-create solutions with clients and partners, and honor the language and lived experience of the communities they serve.
Joyful Flair
We add warmth, wit, and a celebratory touch to the serious work of securing grant funding.
What drives us
Customer service: At SGW, we are dedicated to simplifying the grant writing process, ensuring it is both effective and enjoyable for all our partners. We tailor our approach each time, focusing on securing the funding you need to advance your important goals. Consider us your newest team member, committed to your success from start to finish.
Giving back: Sunflower Grant Writers is committed to pledging 1% of profits every year back to a nonprofit in the way of donated grant writing services. In 2024, our nonprofit partner is RISE.
More about Katie
I grew up in Saint Louis, MO and as a public policy graduate from Duke University (BA) and George Washington University (MPP), I put my research and writing skills to work right away. I spent the first 18 years of my career living and working in Washington, DC, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and then at the Kennedy Center. While at these amazing places, I spent many hours getting grants for and working on programs and public art projects. Some of the special projects I worked on were: helping to secure funding and planning the highly acclaimed Clarice Smith Lecture Series, organizing and managing the Wall of Remembrance, a large public art project dedicated to the memory of 9/11 victims, planning and securing all public programs and the first ever audio tour for a major exhibition on George Caitlin, and being instrumental in planning the Kennedy Center’s first ever complete Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
My husband and I moved to Omaha in May of 2017, and we are very happy to call this area home. Since launching my own company in 2019, I have been able to secure grants that helped to fund wish lists for our clients including arts programs, city expansion, youth development, agriculture, health care projects and more. We have also secured grants in several other states, including Florida, New York and Kansas. We have assisted organizations and small businesses obtain federal funding and state funding and have a dedicated federal grants specialist on our team. To date, Sunflower Grant Writers has raised over $17 million in funding.
- Katie was featured in the December 2021 issue of the AAUW Omaha Newsletter
- Nebraska Business Development Center – Sunflower Grant Writers profile
