Your Strategic Partner in Funding, Compliance, and Impact
About Us
At Proposal and Grant Writers, LLC, leadership is grounded in a rare integration of strategic intelligence, conceptual rigor, narrative mastery, and operational discipline.
Our firm is led by professionals with decades of combined experience designing, managing, and executing complex projects across business development, funding strategy, and organizational growth.
Rather than offering transactional proposal writing, we function as strategic partners. We help businesses, entrepreneurs, and creative industries align their growth objectives with funder priorities, market realities, and long-term sustainability.
OUR MISSION:
Our mission is to enable sustainable growth through strategy-driven, compliant, and impact-oriented proposals and grant submisisons.
We support organizations and entrepreneurs in accessing capital, scaling operations, and strengthening their strategic positioning by aligning vision with structure, creativity with discipline, and opportunity with execution.
Raquel Torres-Arzola, Founder & Lead Strategist, is a Proposal and Grant Writer specializing in federal (RFP, RFQ, NOFO), philanthropic, private-sector, and startup funding opportunities. Her expertise centers on compliance, strategy, and impact-driven narratives. Raquel has successfully led and secured major initiatives across federal, philanthropic, and private funding streams. As Lead Strategist at PGW, she integrates rigorous technical compliance with compelling storytelling, leveraging innovative AI-driven tools to design competitive, high-quality proposals that transform vision into measurable, sustainable impact.
Juan M. Fernandez, MBA, CPO, SMC is the Co-Founder and Operations Director, with over 29 years of global experience in project management, logistics, and supply chain strategy. Juan provides the operational backbone of Proposal and Grant Writers LLC. His career includes managing multimillion-dollar programs, optimizing logistics networks, and ensuring flawless execution in high-pressure environments.
Paula Isabel Arzola, Lead Connector, is an experienced professional dedicated to cultivating meaningful relationships with entrepreneurs and organizations in the creative and food industries. As Lead Connector, she opens doors, listens to client needs, and bridges them with PGW’s proposal and grant writing expertise. With a natural talent for communication and engagement, Paula helps transform ideas into funded opportunities, expanding PGW’s impact across two of the most vital and dynamic sectors of today’s economy.
Together, we lead a Lean-Agile team that delivers high-scoring proposals for clients in Puerto Rico and across the United States.
At Proposal and Grant Writers, LLC, we transform your business vision into winning strategies that meet compliance, tell your story effectively, and maximize success.