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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. What Is a Budget Narrative?

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Why the Budget Matters

Grant Consulting Services

One word: budget. In the land of grantmaking, it’s essential to have a budget in place because grantmakers want to know that your financial situation is reasonable and how you plan on spending the money if awarded. Because it is deemed a plan, you can use it to effectively map out goals for tracking purposes.

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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

The goals of the funder’s RFP align with your grant proposal and organizational goals  Grantseeking is always about need, but as Candid’s educational programming manager Lori Guidry says, “it’s not about your organization’s need; it’s about the need of the people or cause you’re serving.”

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

Grant Professionals Association

Quality Assurance Tips An organizational standard grant application process might include the following quality assurance elements: Prospect vetting process — reviewing potential sources of funding for alignment with your organization’s strategic and programmatic goals, objectives, and capabilities. Post-funding decision debriefings.

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

GrantNews

Tufts, Office of the Vice Provost of Research, Understanding a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA ) Other questions deal with the document specifications, budget, narrative structure and review criteria. Moreover, the goal is to provide opportunities to students in the careers of population and ecosystem dynamics.

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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?” Have there been multiple instances where this was effective? You better believe it!

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Grants & AI: The New Normal

Grant Consulting Services

In my most recent Grantegy class, I purposely tested the viability of ChatGPT to help create a sample budget and corresponding budget narrative. Ultimately, the goal of ChatGPT is to “generate text based on patterns and structures it learns from input data.

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