The fundraising toolkit built for rescues like yours.
You're saving lives every day. We'll help you fund it. Rescue Resources gives you the grant guides, fundraising playbooks, and expert tools you need to keep your doors open.
Win more rescue grants.
From your very first application to building a sustainable grants program — these resources walk you through the entire process, step by step.
Grant Writing Resources
Grant Writing Crash Course
A self-paced, six-week crash course that walks animal rescues through the entire grant process — from getting grant-ready to building the boilerplate language that makes every future application easier. Built by veteran grant writers who know what actually works for real-world impact.
Free Workbook
Grant Writing E-Book
Not sure where to start with grants? This free workbook walks you through core essentials: getting grant-ready and building your six core boilerplate components. Work through a readiness checklist and learn exactly what funders look for in a successful application.
Hands-on Support
Grant Writing Services
Grants aren't magic. They're won by rescues that are organized, know what they're asking for, and apply to funders who fund work like theirs. Grant Readiness is our starting-point service for volunteer-run and foster-based rescues who are new to grants. We'll help you see what you already have, build language you can reuse, and find funders actually worth your time. You walk away with a stronger case, a plan, and the tools to keep going independently.
Tools to raise more
Peer-to-Peer Toolkit
Your go-to overview for planning and executing a nonprofit event that hits its financial goals — from story to email drips.
Events Quick Start
A comprehensive workbook walking you through planning your calendar, donor segmentation, and high-conversion assets.
Fundraising Navigator
We take your current fundraising activities and map them onto a 12-month plan for financial sustainability.
Fundraising Services
Rescue Fundraising Navigator
The Rescue Fundraising Navigator takes what you're already doing and lays it out on a 12-month calendar, so you can plan for the money instead of scrambling for it. We build it with you, giving you a plan your volunteers can actually follow year after year.
Choose your level
- Quick Start: Single focused session for immediate direction.
- Full Navigator: A complete 12-month roadmap and custom templates.
- Navigator Plus: Full strategy plus long-term implementation support.
Quick Start
$275
One 90-minute working session to build your calendar together. Perfect for rescues needing an immediate plan of action.
Full Navigator
$525
We draft your full 12-month plan and customized templates, then walk through it with you across 3 to 4 weeks.
Navigator Plus
$695
Everything in Full Navigator, plus an extra review call and a 60-day check-in to ensure your plan is working.
Built by Giant Squid Group.
Giant Squid Group is a social impact consulting agency that works with nonprofits to help them build their fundraising capacity. We're moms and millennials who believe the nonprofit sector can change the world and we built Rescue Resources to bring that expertise directly to animal rescues.
Catherine Ashton
Founder & CEO
Catherine is on a mission to change the way nonprofits fundraise. She has raised millions of dollars through grants, major donor asks, and campaigns and loves helping others learn to do the same.
Madeleine Herzog
Manager of Operations & Community Engagement
Madeleine keeps everything running behind the scenes. A longtime cat rescue volunteer, she brings both operational expertise and a deep passion for animal welfare to Rescue Resources.