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About Roots Partners

Roots Partners helps organizations grow their funding through expert grant writing services 

so they can focus on what they do best -providing services and changing lives.

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Sierra F.H. Chao

Founder & CEO

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Jackie Perlmeter

Senior Grant Writer

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Hope Reeves

Administrative Assistant

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Hannah Harlan

Senior Grants Manager

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Lauren Schmalz

Junior Grant Writer & Editor

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Mr. Klaus

Chief Good Boy

About Roots Partners

At Roots Partners, we understand that you have fueled your organization through passion. Now, you are poised and prepared to bring in more funding to move the needle a little further. Your capacity to oversee your grant efforts might be limited, and you cannot afford to miss out on funding opportunities.

 

Roots Partners was established in the Summer of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, to fill a visible need for committed grant writing specialists to help nonprofits increase their funding. We work with growing organizations with extra-large dreams of serving the most vulnerable populations in our communities. We are passionate about the organizations we serve and their worthwhile missions. We have helped nonprofits like yours find and access the funding they needed to fully fund existing initiatives, start new programs, and cover operating costs that historically funded through individual donations. They have been awarded larger grants from existing funders and have tapped into funding they did not even know existed.

 

We have helped organizations obtain grants ranging from $5,000 to $9,000,000, and we are proud to share that in 2023 alone, we’ve helped organizations raise over $10million to support their worthy causes. That is the power of having a development partner who is committed to you and your mission – growth you never thought possible and capacity for the impact of which you have always dreamed!

WHAT ORGANIZATIONS SAY

Associate Director, Utah-Based Human Services Organization

In addition to being a supremely capable manager and facilitator of the grants and development process, Sierra is a gifted writer and conveyor of non-profit mission and messaging. These gifts have helped [or organization] to achieve an increase in foundation giving of more than 30% over two years and a success rate in obtaining funding from new first-time grant submittals of over 70%.

Executive Director, Utah-Based Human Services Organization

Roots has been crucial to our organization. We were so happy with the incredible insight and thoughtful proposals that we continue to work with Roots for grant writing and have already received awards. I am always incredibly impressed with their work ethic, product,
and ability to meet deadlines. I have and will continue to recommend Roots Partners to other nonprofits in our
community.

Executive Director, Virginia-Based Wraparound Services Nonprofit

[Roots] is fantastic!  [They] are professional and accountable. I trust [their] ideas and her judgements.  Each month since August 2020, we have submitted no less than four grant applications per month.  [They] are great with follow-up.  Some Days I forget that I am in Virginia and [they] are in Utah.

Board President, Utah-Based Children's Justice Nonprofit

Roots Nonprofit Partners has been by far one of the greatest partners the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center has brought on. [Roots Partners] was hired to focus on grant writing and proven [their] value multiple times over already.

Located in Salt Lake City, Utah
Serving organizations in multiple states.
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