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

Grant Professionals Association

If there is one thing foundations love to fund, its new collaborations. Then you go searching for someone willing to fund it. How will you dole out the funds? 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. Be proactive.

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Key Takeaways for the GWBC Session as a Seasoned Grant Professional

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Leonard, GPC, RST. The prior is a listing of all funding opportunities from the government – ever! It’s not a list of funding that’s currently open but shows funding that has been made in the past. Just a brief sampling includes two tools for prospect research: www.sam.gov and www.usaspending.gov.

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Writing About Need so Funders Will Get It

Grant Professionals Association

Author Bio: Amanda Acton, GPC (she/her) is a grant professional living in Central Iowa (unceded traditional lands of the Baxoje). In addition to having a deep love for logic models and need statements, Amanda is passionate about cats, birds, and random trivia. Question: What comprises a compelling need statement?

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Sabotage: Obstruction or Treason

Grant Professionals Association

A few years back, our agency was applying for a couple of multi-year, several million dollars’ worth of funding from the state department. While it worked out and both projects were funded, it was the beginning of some internal changes in how grant collaborations are conducted. Bonnie shares a great example of external sabotage.

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Competition and Training: Not just skills for the court By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

In addition, the team should understand the legal and ethical requirements for managing grants, which can vary based on the source and scope of funding. There are many types of funding sources from family foundations to federal agencies, innovation challenges and competitions to managed trusts.

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Hard and Fast Proof: The Quest for Demographic Data

Grant Professionals Association

hard and fast proof to qualify a community for programming, such as when funds have to benefit “disadvantaged” or “under-resourced” communities. hard and fast proof to qualify a community for programming, such as when funds have to benefit “disadvantaged” or “under-resourced” communities.

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Juicing up Your Federal Grants to Engage Reviewers

Grant Professionals Association

The logic model. Developing a logic model before I start writing tells me who my characters are, what’s going to happen, and what the end result will be. I definitely fall into the former category when creating fiction, but I am firmly among the latter when I write a grant. My outline? Don’t forget emotion : Emotion?