Your TL;DR: We are reintroducing the EBHC Resources page as a growing library of guides, white papers, templates, and practical tools created by our team. The collection already includes resources covering grant readiness, compliance, federal grant language, SBIR/STTR staffing, letters of support, and more. We will continue building the library, and beginning with our monthly newsletter, we will regularly highlight resources worth knowing about and using.
There is a lot of information available about grants, non-dilutive funding, proposal development, and federal requirements. Finding information is rarely the problem. Figuring out which information is useful, what it means for your organization, and what you should actually do with it is considerably harder.
Over the years, the EBHC team has created a substantial amount of content to answer the questions we hear repeatedly from founders, small businesses, researchers, universities, nonprofits, and organizations across the innovation ecosystem. Some of those resources grew from conversations with clients. Others came from patterns we kept seeing during funding research, proposal preparation, or evaluation work. Often, we created something because we found ourselves explaining the same complicated issue and realized there should be a practical resource people could return to when they needed it.
We are now bringing more of that material together in one place and giving it the attention it deserves: the EBHC Resources page.
A Resource Library Built From the Work We Actually Do
We want to be clear about what this page is, particularly as it continues to grow. This is not a referral directory, and it is not a collection of ecosystem partners or outside organizations we have brought into the fold.
These are EBHC-created resources.
The guides, white papers, templates, diagnostic tools, and other materials on the page are built from the subjects our team works with every day. They are intended to make complicated funding questions more manageable, give organizations a better starting point for decision-making, and provide practical tools that can be used before, during, and around the pursuit of non-dilutive funding.
If you are considering a funding opportunity, preparing for a future application, or simply trying to determine whether your organization has the infrastructure to compete effectively, the Resources page is worth adding to your own funding toolkit.
What You Can Find on the Resources Page Right Now
The library is already taking shape around several areas where we consistently see applicants needing greater clarity. The current collection includes eight resources spanning grant readiness, compliance, proposal development, and SBIR/STTR considerations.
The Federal Grant Language Screening Guide addresses language that may warrant additional consideration as federal agency guidance, requirements, and review practices continue to evolve. This is an area where applicants need to remain attentive without allowing concern about individual words to replace sound proposal strategy. The guide provides a practical resource for reviewing language with greater awareness.
Our Grant Compliance Organizer tackles a much less glamorous part of grant preparation, although anyone who has discovered an expired registration or missing account information close to a deadline knows exactly how important it can become. The organizer is designed to keep federal registrations, compliance requirements, accounts, and other key information together so organizations can maintain application readiness rather than reconstructing administrative details every time an opportunity appears.
Grant readiness is another major focus of the collection, and intentionally so. A compelling idea does not automatically mean an organization is ready to pursue competitive funding. Team capacity, organizational infrastructure, technology development, market understanding, compliance, partnerships, and the ability to execute the proposed work can all affect whether pursuing an opportunity makes sense.
That is why the library currently includes several resources approaching readiness from different angles. The Grant Readiness Playbook provides a practical, founder-focused way to identify gaps and strengthen the foundation for a competitive application. The Grant Readiness: Building a Stronger Foundation for Funding white paper examines the factors that influence readiness in greater depth, while the Grant Readiness Diagnostic Tool gives organizations a quantitative way to surface gaps, risks, and competitive positioning.
Together, these resources address an important gap we see repeatedly: organizations often begin asking how to write a proposal before they have fully examined whether they are positioned to pursue the funding in the first place. Spending time on readiness earlier can change the quality of the decisions that follow, including which opportunities deserve your time and which ones should be left alone.
Practical Tools for the Details That Can Shape a Proposal
Some of the resources are intentionally narrower because seemingly small proposal components can carry significant weight.
The Letter of Support/Commitment Template, for example, focuses on making partner letters more substantive by clearly addressing roles, commitments, resources, and alignment with project objectives. A generic letter saying that a partner enthusiastically supports a project may technically satisfy an attachment requirement, but it does very little to demonstrate what that partnership will actually contribute. The resource is designed to move applicants toward letters that add credibility to the proposal rather than simply adding another PDF to the submission package.
For companies considering SBIR/STTR funding, we have also included two resources addressing readiness and staffing. The Readiness Rubric provides a quick way to assess readiness across the business, team, market, and technology, while the SBIR/STTR Staffing Guide examines how employee and contractor relationships can affect principal investigator eligibility, workshare, budgeting, and compliance.
Those questions are much easier to address before proposal development is underway. Discovering late in the process that a staffing structure creates an eligibility or workshare problem can force significant changes at exactly the point when a team has the least time available to make them.
This Page Is Going to Keep Growing
Eight resources are a starting point, not the finished library.
We intend to continue adding EBHC-created guides, white papers, templates, tools, and other practical materials as we identify areas where a useful resource can make a complicated funding issue clearer. The goal is not to create content simply to make the library larger. A resource should earn its place there by giving someone something useful to understand, evaluate, organize, or apply.
That distinction matters to us. Our work gives us a close view of where applicants lose time, where requirements create confusion, where organizations discover readiness issues too late, and where a relatively small amount of preparation can prevent a much larger problem later. Those experiences will continue informing what we build next.
As the collection grows, readers can use it as a place to return when a funding question emerges rather than waiting until a solicitation deadline turns that question into an emergency.
You’ll Also Start Seeing Our Resources in the EBHC Newsletter
Reintroducing the Resources page is only part of what we are changing. We are also creating a dedicated place for EBHC resources in our monthly newsletter.
Each month, subscribers will have an easier way to discover something from the library that may be relevant to the work they are doing. Sometimes that may be a newly released guide or tool. Other times, we may bring an existing resource back into view because a funding cycle, policy change, recurring application challenge, or common question makes it particularly timely.
Our newsletter already serves as a way to share knowledge, funding opportunities, and developments across the industry. Adding a regular resources feature gives us another way to make that information actionable rather than simply interesting.
It also solves a practical problem: useful resources have a tendency to disappear into browser bookmarks, old emails, and that mysterious downloads folder where PDFs go to contemplate their life choices. Bringing them into the newsletter gives readers a regular reminder that the library exists and continues to expand.
Built to Be Used
We spend a great deal of time talking with organizations about readiness, strategy, proposal development, compliance, and evaluation. Some questions require a nuanced conversation and organization-specific guidance. Others can be addressed much earlier with the right information and a practical tool.
The EBHC Resources page is where we want more of those tools to live.
You can explore the EBHC Resources page now, download the materials that are relevant to your work, and return as the collection grows. We will keep creating, refining, and adding resources based on the questions and challenges we encounter through our work across the innovation and non-dilutive funding ecosystem.
The library is back in focus, and we have plenty more planned for it.