Library Grants

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This program creates a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all states and U.S. The maximum award amount is $325,000 with an estimate of ten awards. Prior recipients may apply for subsequent NDNP awards to further newspaper digitization efforts.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Their findings were published in the Fall 2020 Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, showing a gap in available information as well as initial research indicating more than three in four grant professionals experience physical symptoms, socio-emotional symptoms, or both, of burnout. However, sometimes it is a great fit.

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iGrantWriters

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Publish articles on relevant industry blogs, keep up with news on new developments, lead webinars on new federal or state initiatives that affect grant writers, or present at conferences and meetings sponsored by reputable organizations like the National Council of Nonprofits. Develop workshops and presentations to share your expertise.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

Education organizations, both institutions and those organizations focused on education, comprise a little over 15% of nonprofit organizations in the United States and represented over 13% of participants in the State of Grantseeking survey published by GrantStation and PhilanTech in November 2011. What is going on here?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Community Improvement and Capacity Building: Fewer Grant Awards. of survey participants cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011 by GrantStation and PhilanTech). As always, if you use staff time to try to secure grant awards, staff have to leave behind their daily duties.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Budgets include the personnel required for a grant project (consultants, percentage of salary and benefits for existing staff, etc.) Project Budget.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Teespring offers consultation services to help organizations with shirt design, marketing strategy, and account management. I have updated Stephanie’s pieces a bit.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

If you want to explore new areas of the grants profession, such as grant management, you may do a quick read of the Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards (just kidding, there is nothing quick about this!). The Post Award Grant Management and Compliance pathway is available now, with more in development.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

Several published articles, like this humerous classic by Vu Le , illustrate grant practices that do more harm than good. It can be uncomfortable to commit to a timeline, line-item budget, or project plan, but your grant professional is asking for these because organizations that include details are more likely to win awards.

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GrantNews

MAY 6, 2024

The first published photograph of a UFO was taken in Seattle, Washington after Frank Ryman took a picture of a flying saucer from his front yard in 1947. Applicants must consult with program staff prior to submitting an application. The first Starbucks opened in Seattle on March 30, 1971.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Funders have a limited amount of dollars to award and, therefore, want to fund effective projects. Drafting the Evaluation Budget Your first step in drafting an evaluation budget is to consult with finance staff and program staff. document transfer, accuracy in post-award fiscal and activity reporting).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

Despite many challenges, nonprofits retain a sense of optimism about the next six months according to the survey results cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011). And it gets particularly interesting when you start looking at the responses from arts, culture, and humanities groups. What does that mean?

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 28, 2021

While some databases focus exclusively on a subset of funders, such as private foundations, many databases include entries for all types of funders and award mechanisms, from traditional grants to prizes for innovative ideas to in-kind donations. current or past grantees), or by sponsor/grantmaker. Screenshot of GrantForward’s landing page.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. The Non-profit Consultant. Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Additionally, not all foundations that award external grants actually accept applications; instead, they rely on an “invitation-only” model to identify the organizations they will fund. With grants, foundations publish the solicitations, which are the requests for grant applications. Emails like this are unlikely to be successful.

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Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

If the solicitation directs applicants to submit any questions by a specific date, this almost always means that the funder will publish the questions received—often verbatim—along with the answers. Personnel Questions Is it allowable to bid consultants for the key positions? Is it allowable to put “TBD’ for some positions?

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

Of every philanthropic dollar awarded, it is estimated that only 6 cents goes towards racial equity work and a single cent towards racial justice work. The awarded funds are a drop in the bucket, given that “ less than 1% of venture capital funding goes to businesses owned by Black and Hispanic women.”

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of the requirements of the bill is that evaluation criteria (weve often written about evaluations ) be published in the RFP, although many federal grant-making agencies already do so. Each grant-making agency is charged with ensuring its awards use the data standards for future information collection requests.

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