Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In addition to the successes, thoughtful consideration of the challenges faced can help you gain insights into areas where you need more training or different systems to ensure smoother grant processes. Discern what you can from unfunded grant proposals and feedback from grant reviewers or program officers to determine areas of improvement.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Challenge One of the most significant pain points in grant writing is the time commitment required. Crafting a compelling proposal demands thorough research, meticulous writing, and often, coordination with various team members. Understanding Grant Guidelines 2.1 Misalignment or errors in the budget can jeopardize your proposal.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then, keep track of your Grant View History using My Grant Views. Use this feature to view the GrantWatch ID#, deadline date, and the date you viewed each grant. Finally, personalize your My Grant Calendar to plan out your future grant applications and organize upcoming deadlines.

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GrantNews

MAY 15, 2024

In the United States alone, there are more than 750 community foundations dedicated to providing grant funding sources. While many of them operate through competitive grant processes and issue Requests for Proposals, they also manage numerous donor-advised funds. Applying for grants is hard work.

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Additionally, avoid those who guarantee you will receive the grant being sought. Just applying for a grant does NOT guarantee you will win the funding. Grants have specific requirements in order to apply. Once submitted, your proposal still needs to undergo a review by the funding source, in what is often a competitive process.

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GrantNews

JULY 10, 2024

Stay Organized and Meet Deadlines Use a calendar to track milestones. Understand the Needs of the Grant Provider Put yourself in the shoes of the funder. Understand their goals and craft your proposal to align with their objectives. Seek Feedback If your grant isn’t accepted, ask for feedback.

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GrantNews

JUNE 9, 2024

Hide Ineligible Grants Say goodbye to clutter with GrantWatch’s Hide Grants feature. Click the eye icon to hide irrelevant grants and focus on the opportunities most relevant to your organization. Personalized Grant Calendar Keep your grant applications on track with My Grant Calendar from GrantWatch.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 1, 2024

Grant Calendar: Create a grant calendar that lists all potential funding opportunities. Benchmarking: Benchmark your client’s projects against successful grant applications in similar fields to refine your proposals. This can help you tailor each new application to better meet funder expectations.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Taking every new opportunity – create a process to identify a good prospect to avoid jumping at every new opportunity when the grant calendar is already full. Create a go, no-go matrix to evaluate new grant opportunities that will help inform leadership or board members when it’s not a good fit.

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Strategic Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

When we build a customised GEMS ( Grants Expertise Management System ) for our clients, we customise their grants calendar from over 6,500 funding opportunities our research team maintains. They had developed a system to quickly submit many smaller regional council grants to fund their community work.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Budgeting Creating a grant budget that aligns with your nonprofits annual budget is essential for maintaining financial stability and ensuring resources are distributed effectively. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The client felt confident putting the funder on their own grant calendar for the upcoming year, allowing me to focus my time on another funding priority because they were sure that the foundation would continue its support. Some funders require a letter of inquiry (short or detailed) before inviting full proposals.

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 11, 2024

So, your grant application was rejected. There are a lot of reasons grant proposals may be denied funding and most of them are because of simple mistakes. When you are learning to write grants there is quite a learning curve. Do not be surprised if your first or even your tenth grant proposal is not awarded.

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 11, 2024

Was your grant application rejected? There are many reasons grant proposals are denied funding. When you are learning to apply for a grant there is a learning curve. Do not be discouraged if your grant proposal is not awarded. Contact the grant funder if you need to ask for any specific details not listed.

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Grant Consulting Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Grant development is a process that involves multiple steps. When you’re writing a proposal for a grant, your goal is to explain the need in the community and your organization’s vision to solve the need to the potential funders. After reviewing and submitting the proposal, there is still a waiting period for the determination.

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PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

AUGUST 28, 2020

Grant Prospect Research: Eight Places to Look Author: Judy Riffle, Ed.D This sage advice applies to grant prospect research also. When researching and making a fundraising plan of attack, a grant calendar should be created and updated regularly. Most public libraries allow you to browse FDO for free.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 7, 2023

After extensive prospect research, we had identified this opportunity and added it to the grants calendar. It wasn’t the right time for that particular grant, but we agreed to prepare for next year’s cycle and focus on other smaller-scale proposals with shorter grant cycles as they ironed out details on the huge facility project.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

" Successful grantseekers adore consistency, at least when it comes to developing a grant strategy, maintaining a grantseeking calendar, and gathering and polishing the basic documents for grant writing. will help you prepare the basic documents needed to write compelling letters of inquiry and grant proposals.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2017

It offers guidelines on creating a grantseeking calendar, and how-tos on all facets of the application, from developing a letter of inquiry to using appropriate tone and style. will help you prepare the basic documents needed to write compelling letters of inquiry and grant proposals. Make your grant proposals sparkle.

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Grant'd

MAY 31, 2020

We also recommend creating a grants calendar using our six steps so you can avoid those 11th hour grant writing sprints! Solution: Make sure that your budgets match with what you’re proposing. Solution: Never make up funding asks on the fly. This will empower you in building a crystal clear case for funding.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 1, 2022

Today I want to share why you need to take the time to track your grant pipeline (and by that I mean all the opportunities you want to apply for, the ones you have applied for, the ones you’ve been awarded, and even the ones you had rejected). with grants. And one of these actions is tracking your grant pipeline.

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Grant'd

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In additions to supporting both pilot and existing programs, Perpetual also offers capacity building and operational funding – an opportunity rarely seen in the grant-making sector! Make no mistake; this is one of the most tantalising opportunities on the yearly grant calendars of many non-profits.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough. Reference your proposal and reporting plan. Collect necessary and relevant data.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

You need a “yes” to each one before adding that funding prospect to your final prospect list and your grant calendar – thus, meeting the 3-Way Fit Test. Sometimes that one phone call can give you a leg up when it comes time for the funder to review grant proposals. This may be a city, region, state, or country.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

For example: “acquire 100 new donors this year” or “write 10 grant proposals before March.” Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. Here’s how you create those SMART goals: S = Set specific goals for your fundraising activities.

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