Milly Grant Writing Academy · Cohort 2 · Summer 2026
The money is waiting. You just need the words.
There's funding out there for organizations exactly like yours. The problem was never your mission. It was never your community. It was the framework — and nobody taught you one. Until now.
You've sat in front of a blank page for hours, writing and deleting, writing and deleting — not because you don't know your work, but because nobody gave you the language.
You've written proposals that felt desperate instead of confident — listing every problem your community faces, hoping that showing pain would open wallets.
You've applied to funders who were never going to say yes — wrong geography, wrong focus area, wrong size — because nobody taught you how to research before you write.
You've gotten rejections that stung — not because your work wasn't worthy, but because the funder couldn't see what you see. You just didn't have the words yet.
Five principles. One complete proposal. Built in honor of a woman who proved that the right words — written with intention — change everything.
She came to this country with no framework, no cohort, no grant writer. She had a pen, a kitchen table, and the understanding that the right words open doors.
Mervis "Milly" Mills · Teacher. Strategist.
Milly arrived in America in the 1960s and worked as a housekeeper. She wrote a letter — one letter — and because of what she wrote, her entire family was sponsored to come to this country.
Everyone who is here is here because of what she wrote.
Rosalee Daley — CFC®, founder of this academy — is her granddaughter. First-generation American. And living proof that a single well-written document can change the trajectory of an entire family.
The MILLY Method is built in her honor. Every framework. Every phrase. Every door it opens.
Written for a brand-new 501(c)(3) workforce development nonprofit.
Two grants. Two funders. The same framework you'll learn in Cohort 2.
This organization came with a powerful mission and no grant history. No development director. No prior awards. Rose wrote both proposals herself — applying the full MILLY Method: asset framing, a data-backed Statement of Need, and funder alignment research done before a single word was drafted.
The result: a funded grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — and a second award shortly after. $17,500 total for an organization in its first year of existence.
The framework that won those grants is the same one she's teaching in Cohort 2. That's not a coincidence — that's the point.
90 minutes each Wednesday. Not a recorded course you'll never finish — a live room where real feedback happens in real time.
Session-by-session fillable workbooks built around the MILLY Method. You leave every week with a completed section of your proposal.
Learn to find funders who are already looking for organizations like yours — before you write a single word. Leave no dollar on the table.
Your actual draft reviewed in the room. Not vague encouragement — specific, strategic feedback from a credentialed grant professional.
A private community of nonprofit and small business leaders doing the same work at the same time. Accountability you can't manufacture alone.
Templates, LOI boilerplates, budget narratives, and a curated funder database — everything you need to keep writing after the cohort ends.
Before Cohort 2 enrollment opens, get instant access to our Week 1 session recording — the full foundation session on mindset, identity, and asset framing.
You'll also be first to know when Cohort 2 enrollment opens in Summer 2026 — and first access means founding-member pricing.
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I'm Rosalee Daley — a credentialed grant professional, first-generation American, and the granddaughter of the woman this academy is named for.
I built the MILLY Method because I watched too many organizations with powerful missions lose to organizations with better language. The work wasn't the problem. The framework was.
I've secured over $250,000 for clients across nonprofit and for-profit sectors — writing proposals myself using the same methodology I'm now teaching. A brand-new workforce development nonprofit I wrote for won two grants totaling $17,500, including one from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, before finishing their first year of existence.
The MILLY Method isn't something I developed in theory. It's what I use every time I sit down to write. Cohort 2 is me handing you the framework directly — so you can do it yourself.
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