GGOAT helps cultural nonprofits, municipalities, and community organizations secure funding for programs, public art, and complex capital projects. Our team provides strategic planning, project development, grant writing, and grants management from concept through implementation.
Christina Gast, Founder & Principal Consultant
Christina Gast is a development consultant and grant writer with more than 20 years of experience securing millions of dollars in government and foundation grants. She specializes in grant strategy, project development, strategic planning, and grants management, with experience in both strategic and facilities planning for cultural nonprofits and municipalities. She is an internationally exhibiting visual artist.
Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Project Manager & Grant Writer
Felecia Chizuko Carlisle is a project manager and grant writer specializing in grants management, public art, arts education, and disaster recovery. She has secured funding from major national foundations and managed complex federal grant applications and awards. She is an award-winning visual artist with public art commissions in museums and civic spaces.
Charity Anne Coleman, Grant Writer & Editor
Charity Anne Coleman is a grant writer, editor, and arts writer specializing in funding proposals for artists and cultural organizations. She has prepared successful federal, state, and foundation grant applications, and written exhibition catalog essays and criticism for Artforum, BOMB, and other leading arts publications. She is an editor of books, journals, and translations.
Jamie Isenstein, Research Specialist
Jamie Isenstein is a grant research specialist who develops targeted grant prospect lists and funding strategies for artists and cultural organizations. She is also a visual artist and writer whose work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
FUNDING SUCCESS
Thanks to our team, clients have received funding from major national fellowships, national foundations, federal, state, and local government agencies, arts councils, family foundations, and more, including:
- Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Art Matters Foundation
- Arts Mid-Hudson
- Brooklyn Arts Council
- Coby Foundation
- Empire State Development
- Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
- Florida Humanities Council
- Foundation for Community Health
- Foundation for Contemporary Art
- Frankenthaler Climate Initiative
- Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
- Furthermore Grants in Publishing
- Green Family Foundation
- HARPO Foundation
- Kirk Foundation
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation
- M.A.P. Fund
- Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
- Miami Foundation
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New York Department of Environmental Conservation
- New York State Council on the Arts
- Paycheck Protection Program
- Shuttered Venue Operator Grant
- Teiger Foundation
- Terra Foundation for American Art
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- WEGE Foundation
- Windgate Foundation
- & many more
HOW WE WORK
We support our clients from project development through grant implementation and reporting. Services are tailored to each organization’s needs and may include:
- Strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and project development
- Funding strategies for capital projects and programmatic initiatives
- Analyzing programs and projects to identify funding opportunities
- Grant research and customized funding prospect databases
- Grant proposal writing, fundraising letters, and press releases
- Coordinating grant application processes with organizational staff
- Navigating federal, state, and local funding guidelines, requirements, and submission processes
- Project management using Asana, Monday, Airtable, and other platforms
- Grant calendars, templates, timelines, and monitoring systems
- Document management and grant administration
- Program evaluation, data collection, and final reports
- Photo and video editing for grant applications and reporting