Tangible products
Amy Willis ~ Focus Consulting partners with clients to produce a wide range of business communications including:
- Grant proposals
- Letters of interest
- Business proposals
- Reports
- Website content
- Brochures
- Health care communications
- White papers / research papers
- Articles
- Letters to the editor
- News releases
- Resumes
Sample projects
- Grant development and writing, resulting in:
- A $1,000,000 state grant for treatment of adults with chronic diseases
- A $1,000,000 state grant for treatment of infants born with opioid addiction
- A $170,000 state grant for a corporate employee training program
- A $650,000 federal grant for safety training classes for commercial fishermen
- More than $1,000,000 in foundation and corporate grants for non-profit organizations serving at-risk youth, children with disabilities, adults with diabetes, seniors, and veterans
- Proposal writing, resulting in a lucrative new line of business for a private company
- Creating website content
- Researching and writing a report comparing unemployment benefits in various states
- Writing a published article on the experiences of a first responder to a mass shooting
- Editing of:
- A 300-page report, written by more than 60 physicians
- Issue briefs on health care topics
- Technical health care documents
Editing
Amy Willis works with many clients who have begun to draft a report or proposal but need help organizing their information and putting it all together. Sometimes multiple authors have contributed to a document, and their voices need to be unified into one, clear writing style. Editing may include some or all of the following improvements:
- Moving text around to achieve a more logical flow of information
- Creating appropriate sections, subsections and subtitles to make the document easier to understand
- Identifying areas in which information may be unclear and working with the client to address those issues
- Ensuring that the language has the desired tone and is appropriate for the target audience
- Unifying the writing styles of multiple authors
- Finding a pleasing font and layout design
- Addressing spacing issues, margins and other visual details, and ensuring consistency across multiple sections of a document
- Correcting grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and spelling errors
- Ensuring use of the active voice