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Grant Writing Mistake Part 5: Constantly Changing Data

Millionaire Grant Lady

We have been in the grant writing business for a long time, and one important shift we have seen over the last several years has been that funders are requiring more data from more nonprofits. Provide budget-to-actuals comparison through the last month. All of these questions indicate a need for data.

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Grant Writing Mistake Part 4: Not Streamlining the Process

Millionaire Grant Lady

Pro tip: Streamline the grant application process. Conclusion Grant writing mistake: Organizations who don’t streamline the grant application process. Gratitude is important in the nonprofit and grant writing space. Imagine you want to apply to a foundation where the average grant is $5,000.

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5 Tips for Grant Writing Readiness

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Readiness is all about preparing your organization to write a grant proposal and creating a strategy for ensuring you are pursuing the right funding sources to help your organization meet its mission. Here are 5 tips for grant writing readiness. Program/ Project: Describe your program or project in detail.

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The Secrets to Successful Nonprofit Grant Writing

Joe Garecht Fundraising

One of the most common questions I get asked by organizations is how to find and win more grants. For most fundraisers, nonprofit grant writing is incredibly frustrating: in many cases, it seems like a roll of the dice. Here they are, in no particular order: #1: Systemize Your Grant Fundraising Program.

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Grammar Kerfuffles Active Voice vs. Passive Voice in Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

We will explore fun grammar insights that elevate the power of the written word in grant writing. Consider the sentence “The budget was overspent” in contrast with “We overspent the budget.” Welcome to “Grammar Kerfuffles,” a blog series from DH Leonard Consulting that you will see here on the semi-regular.

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4 Ways that Grant-Writing Can Ruin Your Personality

ProposalPRO

4 Ways that Grant-Writing Can Ruin Your Personality I’ve written nearly 1,000 government grants over the past 25 years, so if I have a bad personality, you know why. But if you also are writing grants, and especially if you’re writing government grants, you are at risk of suffering the same occupational hazard.

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Introduction to Nonprofit Program Budgets

Grant Writing Made Easy

At our most recent Grant Writing Made Easy workshop, we did a deep dive into nonprofit program budgets. Of all the topics I teach inside the course, the budget is the one that students have the most anxiety and confusion around. (By Follow this 3-step process for creating nonprofit program budgets.

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