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Grant Writing: How to Build Credibility with Your Budget Narrative

Grants.gov

Need statements , program narratives, and discussions of impact aren’t the only parts of a federal grant application that require the touch of a good writer. The budget narrative – sometimes called the budget justification or budget detail – can also benefit from a skilled wordsmith.

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What Do You Need to Do to Get Government Grants?

GrantNews

Videos Grant Writing Basic s – “Tips for Proofreading Your Next Grant Application” and “Grant Writing: How to Build Credibility with Your Budget Narrative” are just two of the many topics that are covered. For more information, you can also visit the Gr a ntWatch FAQ page.

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Stormy to Calm: Thoughts on Navigating the Federal Grant-Writing Waters After NLFGT

Grant Professionals Association

I was comfortable navigating the relatively calm waters of foundation grants, but federal grants felt like I was treading water in an ocean of shark-like regulations, intricate applications, and stormy instructions. I enrolled in this course so that I could swim in these waters with confidence, strength, and clarity.

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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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Applying Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement (QA/QI) in Grant Management Strategies

Grant Professionals Association

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. Repository/library of supportive resources and tools — include standardized narratives (e.g., project narrative format/content/organization, budget and budget narrative and required attachments).

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FOA: What Is It and How Can It Help You Get a Grant?

GrantNews

Requests for Applications (RFAs) and Program Announcements (PAs) are the two types of funding announcements that nonprofits keep returning to again and again. RFAs (Requests for Applications): If your nonprofit needs funds for investigator-initiated research, an RFA is ideal. Which FOA Is Right for Your Nonprofit?

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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?”