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Training Junior Grant Writers—Without Losing Your Mind or Missing Deadlines

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Youre deep in a federal proposal, juggling 10 stakeholders, two budgets, and a narrative that still needs serious polishthen your inbox pings: Hey, can I shadow you today? Welcome to the wild world of mentoring junior grant writers. Sure, its rewarding. Once its in place, it saves hours of explainingand re-explaining.

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You Won the Grant—Now What? Mastering Post-Award Chaos Without Losing Sleep

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Budget tracking. Logic models. Include: Key reporting deadlines Required data collection points Budget monitoring schedules Compliance checklists Use project management software (like Asana, Trello, or ClickUp) or a specialized grant management system to set reminders and assign tasks. Oh, just the real work a.k.a.

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Chaos Kills Proposals: Lock the Program Design Before You Write

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

One day its a youth mentorship initiative, the next its a workforce development projectand nobody seems sure which population theyre serving or what the heck the budget looks like. Use a simple logic model to guide the conversation: Inputs: What resources do we already have? Sound familiar? Yeah, its the worst.

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The #1 Grant Writing Headache? Your Own Team.

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Your heart is racing, your inbox is a graveyard of unanswered pleas, and youre still waiting on a budget breakdown, an updated program description, and that one elusive staff bio written in something resembling human English. They guess at the logic model based on what makes sense. Sound familiar?

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The Competitive Advantage and Head Start of Pre-planning for Large Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

The order in which our team recommends you approach pre-planning is to create drafts (not finalized, not set in stone, but working documents that are a starting point for the real application) of the three following elements: Logic model – A draft of the key elements of your program/project design.

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Too Many Fingers in the Pie? Here’s a Surefire Recipe for Cross-Agency Grant Work

Grant Professionals Association

Who constructs the budget? If Charlie was supposed to get the logic model to you two days ago, you need to be empowered to go to his boss about it. Who fills out the SF-424 application? Divide up the narrative sections but then pick one person to put the final polish on it all to make sure it reads as a coherent whole.

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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. These inputs are discussed in the project description and budget sections of your proposal. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve?