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

Millionaire Grant Lady

Alex Dunn, CFRE, is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. She has worked in nonprofit offices as part of large teams, and she has worked as a team of one.

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Project Budgeting for New Grant Writers

Peak Proposals

Create a template The first step in the budgeting process is to set up your budget template. Unless the proposal requires a very simple budget that must be embedded into the narrative as a small table, it works best to develop the budget in Excel or a similar spreadsheet tool, such as Google Sheets.

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Questions to Ask Before Responding to a Funding Opportunity

Peak Proposals

When you come across a funding opportunity that looks like it is a good fit, it can be tempting to start work on it immediately, especially if the deadline is only a few weeks away. Are there any templates that must be used for any section of the proposal (e.g., Is there required content for the headers and footers?

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Follow This Plan and You'll Never Miss a Proposal Deadline

Peak Proposals

Adding to the pressure, the time between when the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) comes out and when the application is due can often be very short. Some of your questions related to the FOA you may need to direct to the funder, such as whether the funder will accept a certain kind of budget template.

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Paths to Becoming a Grant Writer

Peak Proposals

Work on a Project for a Nonprofit or Academic Institution By far, the most common way that people learn how to write grant proposals is by working for a program at a nonprofit or academic institution that is wholly or partially dependent on grant funding for its operations. funding to cover basic operating expenses).

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