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Answers to the Most Commonly Asked Questions We Receive about Grants
What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?
Setting Yourself Up to Win a Foundation Grant Before the Funding Opportunity Comes Out
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Using Evaluation Criteria to Prepare a Stronger Grant Proposal
Is It Possible to Submit the Same Proposal to Multiple Funders?
Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One
The Fastest Way to Prepare a Compliant, Responsive Grant Proposal
How to Increase the Odds that Your Grant Application Will Be Funded
Tips for Creating an Organizational Chart for a Grant Proposal
How to Write a Grant Proposal Part II: What Will You Need to Prepare?
6 Strategies to Make the Grant Proposal Submission Process Less Stressful
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Three Options for Managing References in Grant Proposals and Other Documents
Track the Latest News Related to Nonprofits & Grant Writing without Cluttering Your Inbox
Productivity Tools to Stay On Top of Proposal Management Tasks
The Grant Writer’s Digital Toolkit for Writing, Researching, Creating & Collaborating
How Nonprofits Can Be Innovative without Changing What Works
How can you be innovative enough to keep the grant money flowing without changing your tried 'n true approaches to core services?One approach is to innovate around what's working. If your programs are effective, maybe you can bring innovation to the operations side and how you manage your programs. If your organization has strong service delivery programs and program management infrastructure, perhaps there are opportunities to be innovative in the way you approach the sustainability of your programs and services.
Making Sense of Cost Share
Cost share requires the applicant to contribute a certain dollar amount (or dollar equivalent) to support the budget and thus "share" the costs of the proposed project. This post is going to cover some of the basics around cost share including why it is required, why it matters when evaluating opportunities, and how you can come up with cost share.
Why Nonprofits Should Be More Like Corporations
Nonprofits would do well to borrow some of the corporate world's practices when it comes to resource management.
Preparing to Search for Funding Opportunities
Finding funding opportunities that are a good fit for your organization involves a few steps. Before you begin your search for potential funders, you'll first need to take an inventory of your project's needs and resources.Your inventory should include:
Researching Potential Funders: Tools for Prospect Research
When you start to research funding opportunities, ideally you'll have a budget to pay for a subscription to a foundation database to help you with your search. There are free options, however, paid tools are the way to go if you want to have access to the most comprehensive listings.Below are profiles of six databases for foundation research and one government-sponsored database for U.S. government grants.
Getting Started with Prospect Research
The last post reviewed free and subscription-based resources and databases you can use to research foundations. In this post, we'll tackle how to keep track of your research results.
Moving from Research to Proposal Preparation
This post is the last of a four-part series on the preparations to complete in advance of preparing a grant application.
Productivity Tools to Stay on Top of Proposal Management Tasks
Even for a relatively simple proposal, proposal work requires the work of many hands. This means that before you start working on a proposal you'll want to have systems in place to track the status of tasks, delegate work assignments, and communicate with team members. The list below is a collection of tools to manage tasks, email, notes, and workflow. All of the products on the list offer a free trial period so you can test them out to see if they work for you. Several also offer free versions.
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