Cain Nonprofit Solutions

MARCH 4, 2021

If you’ve ever read any of my other articles you probably already know how much importance I place on being “grant ready”. For those of you who don’t know, I recommend reading up on grant readiness, particularly if you are a newer or smaller nonprofit. You can use my Grant Readiness Toolkit to help you get it done.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Acknowledge and honor the expertise of the grant professionals on staff. 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. Their expertise in program and budget planning is invaluable.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

Aided by Kessler and Cassidys Writing to Win Federal Grants and Writing to Win Federal Grants: The Workbook, participants are guided through the entire federal grant writing process, including developing needs statements, crafting budget narratives, building partnerships, and navigating the submissions process.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2024

FIRST, Are You Indeed Grant-Ready? Assess your grant readiness Assessment take a moment to discover what type of grants you are eligible for. After all, there is no reason to apply for a grant you are not eligible for. Click on the link on the grant detail page. Need More Help?

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. Ensure Eligibility – Are You Grant-Ready?

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

For example, a master GRANTS folder might have multiple folders within it, each labeled by the funder name. Then, each of those grant funder folders will have subfolders organized by year. Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. Registration is live!

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To get started: Before applying for grants, assess your organization’s level of grant readiness. Grant readiness is your organization’s ability to apply for, manage and report on funding. Find your local chapter of the Grants Professional Association (GPA). Attend every free webinar you can find.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

To get started: Before applying for grants, assess your organization’s level of grant readiness. Grant readiness is your organization’s ability to apply for, manage and report on funding. Find your local chapter of the Grants Professional Association (GPA). Attend every free webinar you can find.

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Sharpshooter Communications

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Are you grant ready? As a 35+ year veteran of nonprofits, including the last 17 years as a full time grant consultant, I have celebrated many successes and cried over some spectacular failures. There are some specific reasons and I break them into two main categories: Grant Readiness and Grant Strategy.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

After more than 28 years in grants and fundraising, I have found that about 20% of grant writing is actual writing. Much of the remaining 80% goes toward wrangling attachments of required documents, hashing out budgets, and designing meaningful goals and objectives.

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Grant Writer Team

JULY 25, 2024

With a professional team of experienced grant writers, GrantWriterTeam makes researching and applying for grants easy! You need a solid business model and budgeting plan. To get grant ready as a nonprofit, start by clearly defining your mission and goals.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

After reviewing your award letter or agreement: Make sure you and all staff or volunteers who will be working on the grant project understand the project goals and proposed implementation plans. Review the project budget and how your grant fits into that financial structure.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 23, 2023

So, what should you expect when you hire a grant consultant? Certainly, your mileage will vary depending on your organization’s grant readiness and fundraising goals, as well as the methodology your consultant employs to kick off the work. Second, everyone thinks their organization is grant ready.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

And while having an official grant writer on staff is not a prerequisite to receiving grant funds, it is difficult to juggle the rules and regulations, deadlines, and application requirements on top of your typical workday duties when you are fighting fires, shaping young minds, running programs, balancing the budget, or leading your community.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 14, 2023

The grant proposal and its many components, such as the workplan, objectives, evaluation metrics, and budget, will serve as the blueprint for measuring post-award progress and set important perimeters for project completion. She specializes in grant readiness, research and tracking, management, reporting, and compliance.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I have created tons of tabs to help you manage different things like funder logins, program funding goals, prospect research & strategy, awards, report deadlines, program budgets and more. If you have the budget, go for QuickBooks. If you don’t have the budget, use Wave. You can get your copy here.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I get more questions about budgets and nonprofit financial information than any other component of grant writing. And while it may seem intimidating at first, it doesn’t have to be any more complicated than reaching out with an email or a phone call and introducing yourself. 5: Keep your finances in order.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

*Diane’s note: You are used to our team talking about how both pre-award and post-award work connect to create an organization’s overall grant readiness. In fact, we were just talking about this in our most recent webinar about How to Be Exceptionally Grant Ready with Lucy Morgan from MyFedTrainer.com.

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Grant Consulting Services

MARCH 28, 2024

We are sharing our proprietary assessment tool that is designed to help you take a deep look at your organization to determine your grant readiness and ability to take on the arduous process of applying for grant funding. The Feasibility study analyzes the potential for your organization to successfully secure grant funding.

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GrantNews

MAY 23, 2024

Overall, capital funding grants provide general operating funds for a business. Moreover, these grants are often mostly unrestricted dollars. Capital funding grants are commonly used to pay for costs the programming budget cannot pay for. What Else Does a Capital Grant Fund? Happy hunting!

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Grant'd

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The key voices in this tsunami were those from hundreds of DV and advocacy organisations — and here’s the interesting thing — they weren’t always the big guys with million dollar budgets. It’s actually easier than you think and by no means does it necessitate a drain on already strained budgets! So how can you do that?

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Defining Small Nonprofits: Whether a nonprofit or not-for-profit , a charitable organization’s “size” is not determined by its facility, number of staff, or services to the public but by the size of its operating budget. The six-session course focuses on key elements that will prepare a new or small organization for grant readiness.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

Beyond Grant Writing: How AI Can Transform Your Nonprofit Leadership But AI doesn’t stop at grant writing. If you’re leading a nonprofit, AI can be your virtual assistant, handling everything from setting up meetings to managing budgets.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2022

Small nonprofit leaders, watch this video to find out: + The #1 piece of advice that I give to folks who want to work with me who have budgets under $50k (and which they sometimes don’t want to hear.). + Why I recommend that leaders of small nonprofits spend 50% of their time learning to write grants and then writing grants.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

While many grants still place limitations on how much they will fund administrative expenses, there is a simple work-around. I tell this to folks in Grant Writing Made Easy all the time. The portion of staff salary that corresponds to hours spent in programs can be included in program budgets.

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Grant Consulting Services

MARCH 26, 2023

Being grant ready is essential if you want your organization to positively affect change by utilizing its resources to access available funds through corporate, Foundation, or the government sector. Are the organization’s finances in order?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

You’ll never fully fund your budget with lots of little events, so don’t try. Grants are not a good option for new nonprofits because 99% of funders want to see several years’ worth of data showing the impact your programs have. So skip grants until you reach year 3 or 4 and are grant ready. Rich people.”

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

This includes writing outcomes into an application that the organization is capable of tracking or has a plan in place to do so if awarded, a process for tracking time and effort of grant-funded staff, and following the organization’s policy for soliciting bids related to the project.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 19, 2023

Example Prompt: “ChatGPT, please help me draft an outline for a grant proposal focused on providing clean water solutions. Include a statement of need, program design, budget, and summary.” ” Step 5: Editing and Refining After drafting your proposal, you can use ChatGPT to help with editing.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

One of the questions I get the most from y’all is whether I know of any nonprofit start-up grants. The need for nonprofit start-up funding is huge, and today’s post is your guide to finding it. On the one hand, I love getting this question because I know the folks asking are brimming with passion and excitement and plans.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2023

Have you ever felt like you’re navigating a complicated maze when it comes to grant writing? You’re not alone. The process can often involve hours of understanding the application requirements, brainstorming, drafting, and then revising—only to face potential rejection at the end.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

“Can I really stabilize my nonprofit’s finances with grants? If you’re not having the grant success you want, if you’ve been struggling to piece together a successful grant strategy or trying to learn to write grants through tedious trial and error. you are NOT alone.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 21, 2023

With AI’s rapid advancement, the landscape of traditional roles is changing, not least in technical and grant writing. Here’s how you can ready yourself for the coming changes and ensure your skills remain relevant. The unstoppable march of technology continues to forge new pathways, creating a dynamic shift in the job market.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a seasoned grant writing consultant, I’ve been privileged to learn the ropes of this unique, highly-demanding, and satisfying profession over the years. Today, let’s tackle a subject that I frequently encounter: How to get started with your very own grant writing business?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 7, 2023

The world of grant writing has evolved with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. AI-based language models such as ChatGPT have been assisting grant writers with their tasks, making the process more efficient and effective.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 30, 2022

I want to help you write successful grants because I know the work you do matters. And I know that a lot of the grant writing advice out there isn’t going to get you the results you want. Because it’s piecemeal. It elevates one or two actions as quick fixes.

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