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Too Many Fingers in the Pie? Here’s a Surefire Recipe for Cross-Agency Grant Work

Grant Professionals Association

If Charlie was supposed to get the logic model to you two days ago, you need to be empowered to go to his boss about it. Divide up the narrative sections but then pick one person to put the final polish on it all to make sure it reads as a coherent whole. Most important: set interim deadlines and enforce them.

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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. You can learn the basics of creating logic models for your programs in Candid’s Introduction to Measuring Your Impact course.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

Blackbaud

In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be. If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?”

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Hard and Fast Proof: The Quest for Demographic Data

Grant Professionals Association

Keith supports nonprofits and small and large businesses with professional grant writing and digital content writing needs and challenges, including county, state, federal, and foundation grants as well as web pages and online articles and blog posts. measurable data points for long-term program and impact assessments.

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Juicing up Your Federal Grants to Engage Reviewers

Grant Professionals Association

The logic model. Developing a logic model before I start writing tells me who my characters are, what’s going to happen, and what the end result will be. I definitely fall into the former category when creating fiction, but I am firmly among the latter when I write a grant. My outline? Don’t forget emotion : Emotion?

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Writing About Need so Funders Will Get It

Grant Professionals Association

In addition to having a deep love for logic models and need statements, Amanda is passionate about cats, birds, and random trivia. Now, she balances writing proposals for large nonprofits while still helping smaller nonprofits and new grant “pros” launch their professional careers in grants.

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What Makes a Successful Grant Writer?

Grant Training Center

appeared first on Grant Training Center Blog. When combined with the universal ingredient of enthusiasm for their project and it’s positive outcomes, a grant writer becomes truly successful. The post What Makes a Successful Grant Writer?