Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

Across the nonprofit sector, countless small nonprofits and grassroots organizations do life-changing work with limited staff, tight budgets, and never enough daily hours. Instead, seek out funders who explicitly welcome first-time applicants, smaller budgets , or grassroots initiatives. You’re not alone. Start local. and availability.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Offer to write letters of support for proposals and be flexible when needed to sign grant documentation (e.g., indirect costs, matching funds, supplanting). Grant professionals are not merely writers but often content experts, team builders, budget gurus, and the first point of contact for an agency in the funding community.

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Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints. A nonprofit can make better budget decisions for grant writing services by knowing these payment models. This setup helps everyone – organizations can budget exactly, while writers get rewarded for working efficiently.

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Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

A strong grant proposal has sections about the organization’s background, project details, story, budget, and ways to measure success. Grant writers serve as documentation specialists and salespeople for their organizations. List personnel costs (salaries/benefits), travel, equipment, supplies, and indirect costs when allowed.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

For example, donors who supported a capital campaign might receive a report outlining progress toward construction milestones, complete with photos and budget updates. Restricted Gift Compliance Your reports should document how donor-restricted funds were used in line with their intended purposes.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

The pros know this and form a strike team early a small but mighty group that includes: Budget and finance staff (get them moving immediately on match, line items, and cost-sharing). Pro tip: In the draft stage, literally paste the funders questions into your document and write answers beneath them. You can delete the prompts later.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. There are four major documents that you may need to create if your nonprofit is looking for funding. Your budget should show your credibility and impact with numbers.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2022

Budgets can be one of the most intimidating aspects of grantseeking and nonprofit management, especially for new projects or organizations—most of us don’t have accounting degrees after all! The good news is that budgets aren’t as complicated as most people fear. What is a proposal project budget? Don’t know where to begin?

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Identify a place to store documentation, including applications and relevant policies, in a place where everyone has access, such as within the grant record within your fund accounting software or a cloud storage tool. Tip 4: Calculate your indirect cost or make an intentional decision to use the de minimis rate.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

Managing your grants within your fund accounting system will allow you to budget by grant, report on budget vs actuals, and review grant activity, so you can quickly and easily answer these questions. Fund accounting software can allow you to accurately curate grant reports to track restrictions, set budgets, and audit grant awards.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

We’ll start by discussing the “why” of these changes, why the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided to make them now, and how they align with larger changes happening in the federal government. The new guidance states that cognizant federal agencies will uphold these indirect rates and pass-through entities (PTEs) must do the same.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. Lead a Revenue-Wise Strategy Session As a financial leader, you touch all areas of your nonprofit organization through budgeting, forecasting, and expense management. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? Look at it this way: If you’re not spending at least 15% of your budget on fundraising, you may be standing in the way of your own success. You may find yourself spending money on the tech tools.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Project budget Here you’ll get down to the dollars and cents required to address your need or problem. Your project budget will ideally mirror the associated direct and indirect costs of the items outlined in your project description, such as staffing, rent, supplies, promotion, and the like.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are several exciting times of the year for nonprofit finance professionals—budget season, audits, year-end close. They will also touch on the developments happening with AI-powered document intelligence that will make invoice scanning and automation a breeze. But one of our favorites is right around the corner: bbcon 2024!

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Below, we provide more detail about this document and why it plays such a key role in successful financial management. Nonprofits use the Statement of Cash Flows in several key ways: Planning and Budgeting: Forecasts cash needs and plans for future expenses. How Do Organizations Use the Statement of Cash Flows?

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. The original document became effective in December 2014. What is Uniform Guidance?

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 27, 2023

The established CESU Program indirect rate is 17.5%. A full proposal and budget are not required at this stage. Award decisions will be based on mutual agreement and acceptance of the terms and conditions outlined in the request for proposal and the recipient's CESU Master Agreement.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2017

One of the participants asked this question, which I feel sure is on the top of your mind as well: "Program grants have a budget directly related to them, and for the most part do not cover operations or overhead costs. Indirect and administrative costs remained the same or decreased for 70 percent of respondents.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2024

Budgeting Your nonprofit’s annual budget is a key financial planning document that guides your organization’s spending and fundraising efforts. Most nonprofits break down the revenue side of their budget by source. These categories may include: Individual donations of all sizes and varieties.

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iGrantWriters

JUNE 22, 2023

The established CESU Program indirect rate is 17.5%. Please note that at this stage, a full study proposal and proposed budget are not required. Funding: Approximately $213,260 is expected to be allocated for the base period of 36 months, which includes 2 full spring and summer seasons.

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Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

The areas where questions typically come up tend to fall into one of six buckets: (1) eligibility, (2) formatting, (3) scope, (4) personnel, (5) budget, and (6) partnerships. What documentation is acceptable to document compliance? Hyperlinks Are hyperlinks allowed in the document?

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. That is, are you proposing a project so you can generate data, or are you collecting evaluation data to document the results of the project? Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mandates nonprofits disclose detailed functional expenses on federal Form 990 (a publicly available document), reinforcing the necessity for accurate and honest financial disclosure to maintain tax-exempt status and public confidence. The occupancy costs (i.e.,

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