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Grant Writing: 3 Tips for Crafting Need Statements in Federal Grant Proposals

Grants.gov

In this space, we have previously shared tips about the pre-writing phase of completing a federal grant application – for example, the importance of reading (and re-reading) the grant announcement, and the importance of understanding the criteria by which your application will be evaluated. These tips are adapted from the U.S.

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How to learn as a nonprofit professional

Grant Writing Made Easy

As I’m in the business of teaching grant writing online and I want my students to have incredible success , I think a lot about how to learn as a nonprofit professional. Since I started in 2016, I’ve had the opportunity to teach thousands of nonprofit leaders. Not all the grant writing advice on the Internet is good.

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Finding Donors: Where Donor Research Can Make a Huge Difference

Qgiv

He has worked in capital campaigns, major and planned giving (including charitable gift annuities) grant writing and donor research. In 2016, he received the CFRE designation. Strawhecker, Inc. in 2017, Ryan raised funds for the United Way of the Midlands (Omaha, NE), and Omaha Home for Boys.

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

Kisumu, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kisumu. Kakamega, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kakamega. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Kampala, Uganda: Story Makers 2016. April 19, 2016: Producing a Successful Video Story from Sound to Screen with Aaron Bramley of Lights.Camera.Help. Friday, April 1.

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Grant Professionals as Advocates

Grant Professionals Association

In a 2016 blog article , Barbara Floersch, Chief of Training & Curriculum for The Grantsmanship Center , referred to the grant professional as a “rain-maker, a change-maker, and a social activist”. Good advocates are excellent communicators who can frame even the most complex issue in a way most people understand.

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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

Harnessing the passion of different grant partners is the secret to effective collaboration, and when done successfully can yield significant dividends. But do I know deep down in my grant-writing soul that collaboration is often necessary? Do I still roll my eyes when I hear the word “collaboration”? I’ll let you be the judge.

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Interest rates are up and venture capitalists (VCs) are hurting, so companies are suddenly interested in government grants

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Federal grants could still be attractive in the low-interest-rate 2010s environment —the linked post is from 2016—since those grants were non-dilutive and could fund some projects much earlier than VCs typically would.