Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Winning grants, especially in 2025, requires organizations to operate at the highest level of excellence and strategy. Todays environment demands more than just a well-written proposal. Shavonn also serves as President of the Grant Professionals Association. Grant Writing Training and discounted services here.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 26, 2023

Celebrating 8 Years of Innovation: Special Discount on AI-Powered Grant Writing Course As we celebrate the 8-year anniversary of our business this June, we’re offering a special $80 discount on our revolutionary AI-powered grant writing course using the code: 8YEARS. What is Chat GPT and How Does it Work?

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 9, 2024

As grant professionals, we have dedicated our careers to mastering how to write grants and completing competitive proposals. They may find it overwhelming to learn and use the same grant writing approach as professional grant writers. If this is accomplished, congratulations.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 9, 2024

As grant professionals, we have dedicated our careers to mastering how to write grants and completing competitive proposals. They may find it overwhelming to learn and use the same grant writing approach as professional grant writers. If this is accomplished, congratulations.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 21, 2024

During the aftermath of the George Floyd murder in 2020, according to the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity , funding and financing of racial equity and racial justice totaled over $4 billion. In the past five years, there was hope for a significant change. Pledges were estimated at $200 billion.

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Grants4Good

JUNE 17, 2023

Philip: Grantable is a world-class grant writing assistant for any organization, powered by generative AI language models. It has the ability to help take existing written content and quickly draft responses to grant proposal prompts, and to rework responses to adjust things like length and tone. Want to learn more?

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 16, 2023

(Originally posted June 2020 and updated October 2023) I've never "met" a nonprofit organization that had an excess of money to spend on hiring staff or paying a consultant. The myth of the guaranteed grant No grant writer, whether a full-time employee or contractor, can guarantee successful grant requests.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If you’re a fundraiser or grant writer looking for articles about using generative AI tools in their work, here are a couple of places to start: Elevate your nonprofit grant writing success with expert tips. The top 3 benefits of AI for fundraisers.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? Discover three ways your CFO can help your nonprofit through the grant application process. Donations dont have to be a one-sided thing!

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

In her work, she has fulfilled many different fundraising roles and has served as a grant reviewer to determine who received grant funding. Her knowledge of every side of the grant-winning game positions her and her team to assess proposals for effectiveness and fundability. Is AI writing right? So does it work?

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you have not yet had any “ah-ha moments” when it comes to learning how to write grants, you are in for a real treat. Learning the difference between goals, outcomes, and outputs is key to writing competitive proposals. This is the holy grail of grant writing. Save this for the outcomes).

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 19, 2022

There is nothing worse than being three or four weeks into writing a proposal and you realize you have less than six weeks to fundraise new money to meet a match requirement. Opportunities to invest in your nonprofit can include strategy, marketing, organizational effectiveness, grant writing and fundraising.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

You might be tempted to paste the narrative part into your grant proposal as is!) is a former K-12 educator and, since 2020, the owner-operator of EdPro Communications. GPC Competency: 4 Identify and cite accurate and appropriate data sources to support proposal narratives Author Bio: Keith Nickolaus, Ph.D.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

In 2020, three grant professionals ( Bachman, Planton, and Rodgers) set out to identify the prevalence of burnout among the grant profession. It’s a new year, and grant professionals constantly see an upcoming deadline, a great new opportunity, or a need to raise more money. And that “the flow of work never stops.”

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

Yes, surprising grant applications will fall from the sky (hello, so many new funding opportunities in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 Pandemic). Yes, you should always consider adding new grants if they fit your organization’s mission, need, and focus. Do we have a need that meets the grant? If yes, then….

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Sharpshooter Communications

MARCH 12, 2021

We made it through the dumpster fire that was 2020, and we’ve kicked off 2021 with a renewed excitement for our work. From health and human services to arts and communication, writing grants for these clients gives us a deeper understanding of the services they provide, along with the circumstances that created these needs in the first place.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 13, 2022

In September 2020 I penned an article entitled Battling Burnout as a Grant Professional where I shared several resources to help overcome the struggle. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 5 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 14, 2022

For most nonprofits looking for grants, this is not great news. In addition to people moving jobs every few years and it’s good to have a few relationships at any one organization, gaining insight on your proposal from a few different folks works wonders. Many nonprofit leaders may feel discouraged but fear not.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 27, 2021

Here are four mistakes to avoid when writing a grant yourself: Trying to write a grant in a silo Writing a grant takes coordination between your Board of Directors, Executive Director, program leads, and those responsible for finance and accounting. Don't beat yourself up over it.

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Grant Training Center

JUNE 27, 2022

Increasing support infrastructures for grant writing: In the wake of COVID-19 many sponsored research offices have reduced staff and administrative support services previously given to faculty. The results of the survey were as follows: Stress Levels. Extremely. Not at all.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It's because I believe doing the work of a logic model is the difference between a winning proposal and an unfunded proposal. How and when outcomes are measured totally depends on the organization and how long it will take to see the proposed change. Learn more at www.thinkandinkgrants.com

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

billion on disaster relief in 2020, and many nonprofit organizations are also heavily involved in response efforts (reliable expenditure data on nonprofit disaster response are not available). The post Hurricanes Helene and Milton reveal a major issue for nonprofits in disaster areas appeared first on Seliger + Associates Grant Writing.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Did you know that social media posts were the number one driver of charitable giving in 2020? In order to secure a grant, you’ll have to start by applying for it. This includes writing a proposal that helps you stand out from the crowd. Go into the writing process with a plan to guide you so you stay on message.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I took the helm as President of the Grant Professionals Association on January 1, 2020. But you already know the ending to this timeline – March 13, 2020, hit, and the world stopped in my corner of the country thanks to COVID-19. And isn’t that what grant professionals do? Our membership was climbing.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MAY 15, 2024

With a 10-fold increase in only a decade, one would think S + A would be doing lots of proposals for migrant services, but this is not the case. ” The combo of the COVID-19 epidemic, border / migrant crisis, and climate change Green New Deal has created an unprecedented tsunami of federal funding starting in 2020.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Nonprofits have long called for more unrestricted funding, and since 2020, many foundations have committed to making grants as flexible as possible. In the 2023 Foundation Giving Forecast Survey , 90% of respondents awarded some general operating support (GOS) in 2022, but fewer than 5% said all their grants were GOS.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

APRIL 19, 2023

of Education proposal, although you’ll need to be judicious in your choice of quotes—which is almost always true when you’re questioning orthodoxy, however mild the questioning may seem. Says : Coca cultivation rose 35% from 2020 to 2021, new report says.” appeared first on Seliger + Associates Grant Writing.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 17, 2024

I stopped writing the proposal I was working on to watch the chaotic news coverage, not on CNN or Fox, but on X, which is now the best news source. Now that you’ve gotten this far, you may be wondering what all of this has to do with grant writing, since I intentionally “buried the lead.”

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