Start Here Project Development specializes in fundraising, copywriting and editing, and government contracts. We present your vision irresistibly!
Start Here’s fundraising expertise takes many forms: We write grant proposals and private requests, and also help with capital campaigns. Our copywriting feats range from press releases, to entire newsletters, to feature articles. We edit annual reports and other business and technical documents. We write e-mail newsletters and manage lists of subscribers, fans, or political constituencies. If it’s a government contract you’re after, we prepare your bid for you!
Our client list includes foreign businesses that, courtesy of Start Here, now hold U.S. government contracts; international and local foundations; science and technical journals; nonprofits; university departments and advancement offices; business development organizations; theaters and other arts organizations; grassroots groups; and more. There’s a place for you!
Founder
Christopher Schultz wrote his first two grant proposals for a nonprofit his mother ran while he was in college. She’d lost her development director and asked Chris to help her out. Three months later, she was awarded nearly $300,000, about ten times her prior annual budget.
After graduating from Duke, Chris spent four years as a logistics officer in the Navy, learning the ins and outs of government contracts. He lived in New York after the Navy, where he made his living as a writer and editor. In 2002 he moved to Oxford, Miss., where he co-founded Easy Laundry, a laundry and dry-cleaning delivery service. Chris founded Start Here in 2004 after preparing a successful government contract bid worth over $5 million.
In addition to helming Start Here, Christopher Schultz has written for The New York Times, Esquire, Men’s Journal, Spin, The New York Sun, and Shenandoah.
