Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And payroll and grant reporting are two areas of your financial processes where accuracy is non-negotiable. You want your staff paid fairly, and you want to maintain good relationships with your grant funders. But allocating your payroll and time to your grants can be a cumbersome, manual, and time-intensive process.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Google Ad Grants program, which started in 2003, is a transformative tool that offers nonprofits worldwide $10,000 per month for free to promote their missions and connect with target audiences. What Is the Google Ad Grants Program? Join thousands of other organizations to expand your digital presence.

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Strategic Grants

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

In honour of Mardi Gras, we are sharing some upcoming grant opportunities focused on initiatives supporting the LGBTQIA+ communities. Pride Foundation Australia Small Grants Program Open all year round with particular cut off dates throughout the year for assessment purposes. Maximum grant value is $2,000. Find out more.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Look for a preferred vendor list or marketplace to see if your grant management vendor has organizations they know work well with their system. Data visualization.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

First, joining the Grants Professionals Association (GPA) opened new opportunities, which led me to pursue a position with Assel Grant Services (AGS). Then, with the support of the Grants Professional Foundation, I earned my grant professional certified (GPC) credential.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Understanding how your organization makes grant submission decisions is critical. Do You Have Strong Support from the Grants Team?

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Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

An efficient grant distribution process builds trust with your grantees and improves transparency across your organization. Here are five tips for streamlining how you get grant awards to your recipients. This is also where you can set up your grant distribution process for success.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for local nonprofits seeking funding to support their missions. This blog will explore key strategies and tips to enhance your grant writing skills, helping your organization to secure the funding it deserves. Each grants comes with its own set of criteria, expectations, and reporting requirements.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Grant writing is a critical skill for securing funding for nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, businesses, and individuals. Understanding the average hours for grant writing can help you plan resources, set realistic timelines, and improve your chances of success. What Influences the Time Spent on Grant Writing?

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for nonprofits, artists, and educators in Atlanta, aimed at securing funding to enhance community projects and initiatives. This blog delves into the nuances of grant writing, exploring best practices, resources, and success stories from the heart of Georgia.

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When it comes to securing funding, nonprofits often encounter various types of grants, each serving a different purpose. Understanding the distinctions between capital, program, and operating grants is crucial for effectively managing your organization’s finances and meeting its goals. Capital Grants 1.1 Program Grants 2.1

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RBW Strategy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You are carefully researching different funding sources and feel strongly that federal grant funding will help provide the financial boost that you need to get things moving. For those who have spent countless hours preparing federal grant applications, you know that this isnt easy. Seems like a win, right?

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Fluxx

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Managing grants represents an important responsibility that spans community services to infrastructure development. For seldom fully resourced local governments, the administration of grant applications, compliance, and even reporting is immensely burdensome.

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Strategic Grants

MARCH 5, 2025

Last year the team at Strategic Grants helped write or critique close to 50 applications for the competitive Perpetual IPAP Grant. The post Applying a gender lens to grant applications (and why we should) appeared first on Strategic Grants. But, what do funders mean by this? Find out more about Team SG here.

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Strategic Grants

MARCH 2, 2025

In honour of this significant day, were sharing some upcoming grant funding opportunities supporting women and girls. More information: [link] Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ)Scholarships and Education bursariesongoing Various funds and grants available to apply for throughout the year.

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Fluxx

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

have the resources they need, the ASPCA offers the National Shelter Grants Initiative. In this blog, we’ll explore the key details of the ASPCA National Shelter Grants Initiative, including eligibility requirements, the application process, and how this funding can help your organization continue its vital work.

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Fluxx

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Local governments play an extremely important role in providing communities with a variety of essential services, and most have programs administered with grant funding. Grant management, however, can certainly be a rather complex process.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For those of us whose work is creative, focusing in particular on the grant writing work of our team, using AI represents an ethical gray area. ICYMI: The Grant Professionals Association has been talking about this on an ongoing basis and has this current statement about the ethics of AI for our field.)

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Fluxx

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Colorado Trusts Building and Bridging Power Grant offers critical financial support to groups working to strengthen their advocacy efforts and build bridges across diverse communities in Colorado. In this blog, we look at what the grant will fund, the eligibility criteria, and how to apply for funding to support your advocacy work.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming grant writing across industries, particularly for technology-driven companies, drug developers, energy innovators, defense contractors, and health systems. What other AI platforms are you aware of, or use, that may be helpful to the grant industry? Contact at asosa@reoftech.com.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges. Understanding and addressing these common pain points can significantly enhance your nonprofit’s success in securing grants. Understanding Grant Guidelines 2.1 Time Constraints 1.1 Meeting Deadlines 6.1

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

Grants Management is smoother when its a team effort. Managing the grants process from the application stage through the final reporting works best when there is collaboration from many staff members! These staff members go above and beyond their daily responsibilities to help you successfully manage grants that support their programs.

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Fluxx

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Colorado Trust’s Building and Bridging Power Grant offers critical financial support to groups working to strengthen their advocacy efforts and build bridges across diverse communities in Colorado.

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Fluxx

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Whanganui Community Foundation provides Quick Response Grants. Since this is handled within a streamlined application process with clearly identified priorities, these grants should lay the groundwork for funding to be made available as quickly and realistically as possible to organizations.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 9, 2025

Grammar Kerfuffles: Second Installment ( View the other installments here ) Welcome to installment #2 of the grant writing blog series Grammar Kerfuffles, presented for you by DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services! First person singular (I or me) feels awkward (at best) in most grant writing. Why would they?

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Will 2025 be the year you earn your Grant Professionals Certification (GPC)? For many grant professionals, 2025 has been a year of rapid changes and a testament to our ability to pivot as needed, learn quickly, and help lead our teams. Make sure you set aside time to review the application questions and draft your responses.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

Data is a key component of any strong grant application. When grant applications call for evidence that your proposed intervention works, citing scientific articles can strengthen your case. When emailing, introduce yourself as a grant writer working to secure nonprofit funding. Relevant data can be found on pages 16 and 19.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I have been a member of the Grant Professionals Association for 17years (though it was the American Association of Grant Professionals when I joined!) Do the grant activities I regularly engage in match in relevant ways to others at the conference? and each year I wonder if the GrantSummit will be my last.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It's also an opportunity for the grant writer to shine. Its so easy to see a grant opportunity, bring a bunch of people to the table, and cobble something together. Who will write the grant? If more than one organization has a grant writer on staff, thats fine many hands make for lighter work. Be proactive.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 17, 2025

A fresh year has our team collecting and reflecting on 2024 data, which leads us to want to share the top 6 blogs that YOU, our incredible reader, have chosen as our top-read blogs of 2024. Our team loves sharing our knowledge when it comes to the 5 Rs of grant writing , and we cant wait for another year of resources to share with you.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Establish Multiple Grant Pathways When you identify a different need that still fits within your mission, a new grant pathway allows you to stay flexible while also maintaining your core funding program. Identify Other Low-Cost Resources Providing relief isnt always about giving a cash grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

There is no degree in grant writing. Typically, grant professionals learn on the job through trial and error, plus there are vast numbers of classes, webinars, and articles to read on writing grants. I'm Allison Jones, the CEO and Founder of Spark the Fire Grant Writing Classes. in Adult Education. but do not.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Have you encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal? This article will briefly describe Tuckmans framework and then apply these ideas to grant proposal development. Usually, a grant professional will hustle off to the next project. Take heart. This is normal.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This includes a grants manager to handle day-to-day implementation tasks, as well as consistent leadership to support the change. If you don’t have the right people in place, you may consider postponing the move to a new grants management system. Make sure you have the right people in the right roles to manage the switch.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 17, 2024

With so many foundations out there, many nonprofit grant writers will find themselves applying to 5, 10, 15, or more foundations each year. At Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates, we know how much time it can take to repurpose and reformat content. Ignoring the grant application requirements can get your application rejected.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

One of the things I love about the grant profession so much is the diversity of backgrounds that bring people to the field of writing grants. If you talk to five different grant writers/grant professionals, you will hear five different stories of the paths that brought them to the work they do today.

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Strategic Grants

MARCH 30, 2025

Endowment seems to be the buzzword around the Strategic Grants (virtual!) “Can we get a grant for an endowment?” In light of the great questions weve been getting, were taking to the blog to share some Endowment 101 with you all. office lately. ” “How do we grow our endowment?”

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