Grant Writing • Strategy • Change Management
TRQ helps nonprofits, schools, and small businesses move to the Top Right Quadrant, where funding grows and visions flourish.
Who We Are
Our name, TRQ, refers to the top right quadrant of a Cartesian plane, and was inspired by Andy Crouch’s book, “Strong and Weak” where he argues that true flourishing is attained when one has reached the top right quadrant of a matrix measuring authority and vulnerability. We believe this framework applies to the personal, but also to the corporate, and that all organizations benefit when they have found balance in these areas. TRQ aligns business decisions and actions with four core values: Equity, Belonging, Beauty, and a belief in the possibility of mutual Prosperity.
Our vision is captured by these words from Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
Whether in working with your team to compete for a grant, guiding your administration and board through leadership training, or implementing your organization’s strategic goals, TRQ Solutions is committed to helping you and those around you flourish and succeed.
What We Do
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Grants Readiness & Prospecting
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TRQ Solutions partners with you to assess your organization’s capacity to compete for grants and suggests improvements that will help you win. After an initial discovery session, we tailor a scope of work to your organization that includes identifying winnable opportunities to pursue and working with your team to ensure the necessary elements of a winning grant proposal and even the possibility of a sustainable grant pipeline.
Strategic Visioning
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TRQ Solutions has created and trademarked the innovative COST™ Framework. By examining Culture, Offerings, Satisfaction (Sometimes Staffing), and Time, TRQ partners with leaders to better understand the value of what their organization does and to create efficiencies to better execute the organization’s mission. Through the use of professional development, a COST™ assessment, and surveying, we hone the organization’s vision into an executable plan for the future that values tradition, that values a growth mindset, and that values sustainability.
Grant Writing & Project Management
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TRQ Solutions brings its extraordinary track record of winning grants to help your organization develop and submit highly competitive proposals to national, regional, and local funders. We tailor this service to your specific organization, partnering with your team to navigate the intricacies of grant portals and fine-tuning your message to have the best chance of securing funding for your project or operations. This service can also be packaged with a readiness assessment and prospecting.
Professional Development
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TRQ Solutions works with your organization’s leadership team, staff, and/or board to create a true corporate adherence to mission, to a vision and execution of servant-leadership, and to a deeper understanding of work-life balance and how they feed one another. Using the Authority-Vulnerability Matrix and other proven approaches, TRQ helps you leverage institutional and individual strengths, plan for growth, and take hold of hidden opportunities.
Retained Grant Consulting
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TRQ Solutions is retained by your organization on a contract basis to provide ongoing identification of grant opportunities, consultation on strategic approaches and sustainability, and submission of competitive grant proposals. This is a concierge level service, with TRQ and your organization identifying clear goals and the path to ensure those goals are met; it’s designed for an organization that is ready to aggressively develop grants funding revenue.
Change Management
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TRQ Solutions supports organizations who are working toward a significant change in execution of mission, or whose vision is emerging. Consultation ranges from assisting the organization with designing who they are and where they want to go, to assisting with the recognition of when there is a need for change and the subsequent management of that growth.
