The Open Door Sprint · A 2-Week Live Workshop

The door to grant funding was never locked. Nobody showed you how it opens.

In two weeks of live, hands-on sessions, you will build your own AI grant system — in your own account, with your nonprofit's own numbers — and leave with a real application, drafted and verified, ready to submit. Not a lecture. A working room, led by someone who runs this exact system for her own nonprofit, on a standing search every two weeks.

$397 $497

Talk-audience price — $397 for 48 hours after the talk only, then it returns to $497. One payment at checkout via PayPal — and if you need to spread it out, PayPal offers Pay Later right there at checkout. One $10,000 grant is more than 25 times this fee.

Claim My Seat — $397

No seat limit — the deadline is the limit. This is the founding cohort: be in the first room, and build your system alongside the first group of founders doing this work.

48-Hour
Talk Price
A workshop leader teaching a room of nonprofit founders, with handwritten flip charts listing what their community needs
The Sprint meets live on Zoom — but the spirit is this: be in the first room, with real founders, and the actual work in front of you.
4 sessionsTuesdays (2 hrs) & Thursdays (90 min), live on Zoom
7 live hoursWorking time with Kass — not recordings, not webinars
48 hoursTalk price is $397, then it returns to $497 — the deadline is the limit
1 real applicationDrafted, verified, and submission-ready before you leave

The Problem

Small nonprofits don't lose grants on merit. They lose them before the writing starts.

You heard it in the talk: grant funding feels closed to organizations like yours — the founder is also the program director, and some days the janitor. But the money is real. What's missing is a system, and someone in the room when the questions come up. Sound familiar?

The Solution

The same five-stage system from the talk — built by you, in the room.

You will not be logging into anyone else's tools. You build your own grant agent, in your own AI account, loaded with your nonprofit's data — from the same blueprint Kass uses for her own 501(c)(3). When the Sprint ends, the system stays yours.

Stage 1

Find

A standing profile of your nonprofit, then a real search — run live in Session 1 — that returns a shortlist ranked by fit, not by size.

Stage 2

Qualify

The gates checklist, worked on real opportunities: entity, geography, population, financials, deadline. Park the fails early, on purpose.

Stage 3

Draft

A real application written to the funder's own scoring criteria, inside their exact limits, with a budget that sums to the penny.

Stage 4

Verify

Every fact about your organization checked against a real document. The AI proposes — you dispose. Never let a machine invent your numbers.

Stage 5

Submit & Track

Submission-day logistics done right, plus a 12-month tracker that turns every application into next year's pipeline.

How the Two Weeks Run

Four sessions. Seven hours. You leave with the work done.

Week 1 · Tuesday · 2 hours

Session 1 — Find

Your completed fact sheet goes into your own AI account while Kass demos hers live. Then your first real search runs in the room, per focus area, and you name your top three fits before you log off.

You leave with: your profile loaded, an agent that can search, and a ranked shortlist of real funders.

Week 1 · Thursday · 90 minutes

Session 2 — Qualify

The gates checklist, worked live on real opportunities — then on yours. You'll say out loud why the fails get parked, and choose the one target worth your next two weeks.

You leave with: one qualified target — or an honest park and a strong second choice.

Week 2 · Tuesday · 2 hours

Session 3 — Draft

The drafting lab. Guidelines and rubric first — no writing before them — then a full working session on your real application, with Kass circulating and troubleshooting live. Volunteers read sections back against the rubric language.

You leave with: a real drafted application — narrative plus a line-item budget that sums exactly.

Week 2 · Thursday · 90 minutes

Session 4 — Verify, Submit & Track

The verify pass: compliance against the guidelines, then every organizational fact checked against a document. Then submission logistics — the draft-offline rule, portals that can't save halfway, the two-contacts rule — and your tracker, set up with decision dates.

You leave with: a submission-ready application, your own running grant agent, and a 12-month tracker.

Why Believe This Works

This isn't a course about a system. It's the system, running.

A speaker addressing a community audience with a microphone at a public meeting
The work happens in rooms like this one — founders, neighbors, and the organizations that serve them.
"I don't use AI to write magic words. I use it the way a smart executive uses a good chief of staff — to research, to organize, to draft, to check my work, and to never let a deadline surprise me."
  • A $500,000 letter of inquiry, drafted with this exact system. While Kass was preparing the talk you just heard, her system pulled a national foundation's real RFP, checked its eligibility gates county by county, and drafted the letter of inquiry to its published scoring criteria — strategic alignment, feasibility, potential for impact — inside its exact character limits.
  • A brand-new $2 million RFP, caught before it closed. Her standing search flagged funding — grants of $100,000 to $250,000 — that any deadline calendar would have missed entirely.
  • Taught by a founder who does this herself. Cassandra A. Carter is Founder & CEO of ComplxSimple™ and founder of ITEquity Works Inc, a 501(c)(3) expanding access to technology education for Black and Brown communities across New York State. She runs this grant system for her own nonprofit — the Sprint teaches her actual desk practice, not theory.
  • Your data never leaves your hands. You build your agent in your own AI account. Nobody logs into Kass's agent, and nobody takes home her nonprofit's data — you take home yours.

Enroll — Next Cohort

Enroll in the Sprint

This is the founding cohort — be in the first room. No seat limit — the deadline is the limit: $397 for 48 hours after the talk, then it returns to $497.

Open Door Sprint — 4 live sessions, 7 hours, Participant Kit included$497
Talk-audience discount (48 hours)− $100
Your price today$397
Prefer installments?Pay Later at checkout

Your admission ticket: enrollment includes the nonprofit fact sheet — your legal name, mission, budget, contacts, and one program you've run. Fill it in when you enroll and bring it to Session 1. In a two-week sprint there is no session to spare hunting numbers — that sheet is what lets your first search run live, in the room.

Build My Grant System

You'll build your own AI grant agent, in your own AI account.

Secure PayPal checkout — $397. Pay in full via PayPal, or choose PayPal's Pay Later at checkout. Your enrollment is confirmed when your PayPal payment completes.

Payment
Pay in full — $397 One payment at checkout via PayPal (the “Build My Grant System” button above takes you to PayPal) — need to spread it out? PayPal offers built-in Pay Later right at checkout, and your enrollment is still fully covered once your PayPal payment completes.

This form creates a summary for your own records — it doesn't reserve a seat, submit anything, or send an email. Your enrollment is confirmed when your PayPal payment completes — use the “Build My Grant System” button above to pay via PayPal now. PayPal offers built-in Pay Later if you'd rather spread the $397 out.

Your summary is ready.

Complete payment with PayPal — $397

Keep the summary with your fact sheet — together they're your Session 1 starting kit.

Cover of The Grant Fit Finder workbook — a leader with a key walking toward an open door in golden light
The Grant Fit Finder
Cover of The Funding Story Builder workbook — an open book whose pages rise into a golden staircase
The Funding Story Builder
Cover of The Submission Confidence Kit workbook — a finished, sealed stack of documents ready to send at sunrise
The Submission Confidence Kit

The Second Door · Start on Your Own

Not ready for the Sprint? Start with the workbooks.

The Mission Meets Money Grant Action Bundle is the quieter second door: the same system from the talk, distilled into three workbooks you work at your own pace, at your own desk — no live room, no schedule to keep.

  • The Grant Fit Finder — $19 on its ownFind better matches, check the gates first, and choose your next application — before you write a word.
  • The Funding Story Builder — $27 on its ownBuild your story on the spine reviewers score: People, Problem, Change, Proof, Plan.
  • The Submission Confidence Kit — $29 on its ownVerify every fact, check against the guidelines, and press submit knowing the work was checked.
$47 $75 separately Save $28

All three workbooks together for $47 — $75 if bought separately on the store.

Get the Bundle — $47

Delivered automatically as downloads right after payment via Payhip — pay, download all three PDFs, and start with the Fit Finder today.

Questions, Answered Straight

Before you ask

What exactly does my $397 cover?

All four live sessions (7 hours on Zoom with Kass), the complete Participant Kit — profile template, agent blueprint, gates checklist, drafting worksheet, verify checklist, and grant tracker — and a drafted, verified, submission-ready application for one real grant, built by you during the Sprint. The talk price of $397 (regular $497) holds for 48 hours after the talk. It's one payment at checkout via PayPal — and if you'd rather spread it out, PayPal offers a built-in Pay Later option right at checkout.

How is my organization's data protected?

Your nonprofit's information goes into your own AI account — entered by you, housed there, and reached only under your own login. It never goes into Kass's account or anyone else's, and Kass and the instructors never keep or store a copy of your data — anything you show during live troubleshooting is your choice to share. You decide what your agent sees, you verify every fact it uses, and your data stays under your account's control. It is never shared with other participants — nobody in the cohort sees your numbers unless you volunteer to share a section in a read-back.

I'm not tech-savvy. Will I keep up?

This workshop was designed by a teacher whose whole career is explaining technology so it connects. Everything is demonstrated live, in plain language, and the live, hands-on format exists precisely so your questions get answered in the room — not in a help forum afterward.

What is the fact sheet, and why is it required?

It's a one-page fill-in sheet: legal name, mission, service area, budget, tax status, two contacts, and one program example. It's your admission ticket because the Sprint moves fast — Session 1 runs your first real search, and an agent can only search and draft as well as the facts it's given. Gathering those numbers is the work that stalls founders working alone; here, you do it once, up front, with the sheet in hand.

Does the Sprint submit the application for me?

No — and be wary of anyone who offers. You leave submission-ready: a drafted, verified application, the submission logistics worked out, and a tracker with your target's deadline and decision dates. If your grant's deadline falls after Session 4, you submit on schedule with everything ready. Your name is on the building — you press the button.

What if I want it done for me instead?

That's the Grants Desk, below — Kass's team runs the same system for a small number of organizations. The Sprint exists for founders who want the skill in-house, permanently. The Desk exists for founders who'd rather hand it off.

Not Ready for the Sprint?

Two other doors, honestly priced

The Starter Kit Bundle

$47

The Mission Meets Money Grant Action Bundle — all three workbooks (The Grant Fit Finder, The Funding Story Builder, and The Submission Confidence Kit) for founders who want to work the system at their own pace, without the live room. $75 if bought separately — save $28.

Get the Bundle — $47 →

The Grants Desk

$1,500 setup + $299/mo

The done-for-you tier: the same five-stage system, run for your organization — profile, scheduled searches, qualification, drafting support, and tracking. Capped at 5 organizations so the work stays real.

The door was never locked.
Let's build the system that walks you through it.

Two weeks from now, you can still be finding grants the way you found this talk — by chance. Or you can have a system, a shortlist, a drafted application, and a pipeline. Forty-eight hours at $397.

Claim My Seat — $397

Regular price $497 · one payment of $397 via PayPal, Pay Later available at checkout · fact sheet included at enrollment

"Nobody has shown them — and explained it. That's the whole job."

Cassandra A. Carter · Founder & CEO, ComplxSimple™ · Founder, ITEquity Works Inc (501(c)(3)), Binghamton, New York