Our Keystones



PHD Vision has fourteen years of experience in managing, designing, and evaluating grants in diverse areas, such as: health, education, business, and labor. We believe the key to our grants' success, lies in the degree in which the grant, following initial funding, is managed and nurtured by its recipients. The following are some of the keystones we incorporate into every winning PHD Vision grant design.





Creativity and Customization



PHD Vision begins the grant writing process by establishing a Design Team, consisting of PHD Vision staff and stake-holders (e.g. grantees and board members). The Team is then familiarizing the team with the prospective area and those circumstances unique to the area through research, then proceed toward customizing a design that is feasible, unique, and sustainable. All grant designs include experts in the field who, through a facilitative process, can best express possible solutions for the local problems sought to be addressed by the grant. A grant model cannot succeed unless those working out in the field actually running the grant, believe it can work and take ownership of the product.



Higher Education and Workforce Focus



PHD Vision believes that seeking higher education should be a major goal for all individuals and that through higher education anyone can achieve a greater standard of living. We also think that people should have the opportunity to work in a field where they feel comfortable and content. By the grants that we design we enable people to have opportunities to enjoy better working conditions and pay.


Holistic and Family Approach - Not all problems can be solved by a single method so in our customized grant designs we try to overcome obstacles through holistic planning and try to encourage family involvement in solving educational and workforce problems.



Partnerships and Leveraging Resources



It is not pride or recognition that we seek as a business, but the promotion of the general welfare to those individuals who will be directly and positively impacted by the projects that we take on. We strongly believe that organized and active teamwork is necessary in order to make the most positive impact on an individual, city, region, or state.



Best Practices and Research Based Methodology



In our pursuit of grant funds for entities, we believe in working hard as well as smart. We take practices that have been recognized as the best through research and implement them in a customized fashion into all of our grant proposals. It is a waste of time to reinvent the wheel each time we start to create a new grant design so we research what works and fit it into the geographical region to be impacted.



Refinements and Evaluations



Winning grant designs are good but hardly perfect. We feel that it is absolutely necessary to refine aspects of programs during operation so as to strive toward perfection in order to cover all possible angles or to prevent problems from occurring. PHD Vision feels that an external evaluation is critical in the operation of any business or program to ensure unbiased results. All grants that we are involved with are given a thorough evaluation of all aspects of the grant.



Organizational and Fiscal Agent Support



In order for grants to be successful, part of our philosophy includes clear roles for individuals from management to hourly workers with an abundance of goals to remain organized and focused on the tasks ahead. We believe that all partners should cooperate and receive support from the fiscal agent by sharing information and program findings.



Quality Management and Training



PHD Vision’s philosophy also includes superior training of all staff that will be involved in the operation of grants to ensure quality programming. We feel that it is necessary to have management and staff involved in grant programs that will be sensitive to the needs and struggles of all targeted participants. We believe that well- rounded, educated, professionals should be a part of the management team in the implementation of grant programs.



Sustainability and Replication



PHD Vision believes that sustainability is one of the most important factors in any grant project. One of our main goals is to create an independent grant program that begins as a dependent grant project. We do sufficient tracking of all program evaluation results in order to ensure the possibility of replication of certain aspects of projects that we have been involved with.