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Stormy to Calm: Thoughts on Navigating the Federal Grant-Writing Waters After NLFGT

Grant Professionals Association

Before taking GPAs Next Level Federal Grants Training (NLFGT) course, my approach to federal grants could best be described as the sink or swim method. NLFGT is a year-long training course taught by the federal grant whisperer Cheryl Kester that is designed for both experienced and newbie grants professionals.

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Boost Your Fundraising Team’s Success with a Grant Consultant: Here’s How

Millionaire Grant Lady

Large nonprofits with large fundraising teams may have the budget to hire a full-time grant writer; however, the process to hire a grant writer often takes more than 6 months from start to finish. After the grant writer is hired, the new hire still must be on-boarded and trained.

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities.

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Maryland Nonprofits

RBW Strategy

RBW Strategy has partnered with Maryland Nonprofits since 2020 on several grant projects and grant trainings, to support the organization, component organizations under its umbrella, and its member entities. All of this support has helped build the organization’s grant-seeking capacity.

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Nevada Grant Lab

RBW Strategy

The organization does this by increasing the amount of capacity building, grant services, and data/engagement/policy services provided with a curated pool of consultants who support nonprofit organizations throughout Nevada. RBW Strategy has partnered with Nevada GrantLab (NGL) since 2021 on several large-scale federal grant projects.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. Blind applications – hiding the identity of the grant applicant from the reviewers has been show to limit bias (Solans‐Domènech, 2017).

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Where Does Grant Funding Come From?

GrantNews

Government grants come from tax revenues and budget allocations. Federal grants are approved through legislative processes, with over half of the allocated funds going toward healthcare and the rest divided between for income security programs, transportation, education, and social services.

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