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Your Comprehensive Nonprofit Guide to Getting Started with NEA Grants

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

Because these grants are smaller and have a less complex application process, they are usually an org’s first NEA grant before they jump into the deep end with the NEA’s larger grant opportunities. You will need this to create your SAM registration in the next step and you can also use it to access the grants.gov portal, too.

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Meet the Experts: Interview with TechImpact’s Sam Chenkin

Tech Soup

Sam Chenkin is someone who has advised many people on what to do – in an understandable non-jargony way. Sam’s philosophy is that there shouldn’t be an expectation for busy nonprofit people to be experts in technology, but it is important that they be self-sufficient. ” Here’s my conversation with Sam.

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Tell Us Your Sources - Without Telling Us Your Sources

ProposalPRO

You may not see it this way, but Uncle Sam sees your leap into hyperspace as a way to add information beyond the allowable page limit. Even if this does not reveal the reviewer’s exact identity, one could make an educated guess as to whom the application is assigned based on the institution from which the IP address originated.” #3.

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The Advantages of Asymmetric Information

ProposalPRO

Same Information, Different Understanding Uncle Sam provides information about grants for free. You have access to the grant Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), application instructions, forms, Frequently Asked Questions, and webinars. So how does asymmetric information work in the government grants space?

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Summer Reading and Federal RFPs

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Let me tell you, reading a Request for Proposal (RFP), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), or whatever acronym the funder calls its grant application guidelines is not NEARLY as exciting as the next great novel. This ensures all your i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed.

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Grant Writing Basics: 3 Tips to Avoid Last Minute Problems

Grants.gov

On top of strategizing, conducting meetings, and writing a compelling proposal, there are other little-but-necessary tasks on the path to successfully submitting your application that you should do well before the closing date. If your SAM registration is out of date when you attempt to submit, your application will not be accepted.

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TechSoup Global Cloud Survey Results and Cloud Donations for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

While a lot of NGOs are using at least one cloud-based application, deeper use of cloud tools is relatively low. Find a recent TechSoup webinar on backup and disaster recovery presented by Sam Chenkin of npCloud. What Didn't Surprise Me. We found that lack of knowledge is the biggest barrier to deeper cloud computing adoption.

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