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What Is an RFP and How Is It Best Used to Apply for Grants?

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The order and word usage will differ but they each contain the following sections: Project Goals Scope of Work Current Roadblocks and Barriers to Success Evaluation Metrics and Criteria Submission Requirements These categories are all geared toward helping you ascertain whether your organization will qualify for funding.

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Project Budgeting for New Grant Writers

Peak Proposals

No-cost extensions extend the performance period, allowing the organization additional time to spend the money already received, complete any remaining activities from the original scope of work, and sometimes conduct supplemental activities. Sometimes this less rigorous budgeting approach works out.

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Best Practices for a Stress-Free Fund Accounting System Implementation

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This is all part of defining the scope of work. In addition to considering how your financial systems run today, think about what you will need three, five or 10 years into the future. You want to set up your new system in a way that will allow your organization to grow.

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Paths to Becoming a Grant Writer

Peak Proposals

Projects are time-limited endeavors with specific goals and objectives that focus on a defined scope of work, often related to a specialized area of focus. The vast majority of grants are for projects rather than for core funding (i.e., funding to cover basic operating expenses).

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

If your proposal refers to two community coordinators, does your budget have two community coordinators listed under personnel, and have they been budgeted for the correct amount of effort given their scope of work? Scheduling a minimum of 3 days to secure official institutional sign-off and package the proposal for submission.

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