What winning grants do
Patterns distilled from funded CCSIF proposals - the structural choices, language, and content strategies reviewers reward. Use them as you write; the AI applies them automatically when it drafts and scores.
Concrete, observable choices that recur across funded CCSIF proposals - how they open, number their aims, quantify partner contributions, and prove impact.
The non-negotiables - the subset funded grants almost always include and rejected ones most often miss. Do these first; the AI weights them the most when it drafts and scores.
Make-or-break. Funded proposals almost always do this, and its absence is a common rejection reason. If you do nothing else, do these.
Strongly tied to funding. Reviewers expect it - skipping it weakens an otherwise solid proposal.
Polish that lifts a strong proposal at the margins. Worth doing once the critical and important patterns are covered.
Winning patterns
43Not generic writing tips - observable behaviours pulled from grants that received funding: how they open, how they number aims, how they cite a living wage, how they quantify partner contributions. The AI reinforces these as more funded grants are added to its knowledge base.