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Your Comprehensive Nonprofit Guide to Getting Started with NEA Grants

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

You probably aren’t ready for federal grants at all. When you are in a good place to apply for federal grants, the information you've absorbed here will keep you on the right path. Like GAP, you must submit the grant in 2 parts (Part 1 is submitted via grants.gov and Part 2 is submitted via REACH).

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Peer Review Panels and the Federal Grant Application Evaluations Process

Grants.gov

When preparing your federal grant application, you would do well to put yourself – and your team – in the shoes of the people who will be evaluating it. In this post, we will look specifically at grant opportunities that are evaluated (at least in part) with the aid of a peer review panel (Note: Not all are evaluated in this way).

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Demystifying Funding Opportunity Announcements on Grants.gov—Grant Writing Basics

Grants.gov

It is easy to be intimidated when you first encounter a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on Grants.gov. Break it down into its component parts – budget data, narrative and storytelling, standard form data, etc. Do you have other tips for first-time federal grant applicants? There are the four tabs of content.

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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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I Signed up for What?! A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness

Blackbaud

In addition to risk, federal government agencies are asking applicants/recipients to demonstrate their ability to manage federal grants through a robust internal controls policy and procedures manual (sometimes during the pre-award stage) that outlines how organizations will be good stewards of government funding.

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Learn How To Apply For A Grant

GrantNews

Grant-seekers are often surprised to learn that anyone can apply for a grant. While grant applications may require additional items like a budget, a grant application is normally just a series of questions to be answered in your own words. Your grant application will be thrown out if you are not eligible.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Ive been writing grant proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth and have seen various attempts to reform the federal grant-making process. 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.