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Five Steps to Creating a Winning Logic Model

Think and Ink Grants

Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. If you've followed me for any length of time, you will have come across a presentation or two about logic models. In logic models, each prior step informs the next step.

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A Grant Professional’s Gift Guide by Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

Quartet Dry-Erase Whiteboard A place to jot down notes during a call or visualize a logic model as you talk through program elements. A Branch Ergonomic Chair Writers spend many hours behind a desk, piecing together proposals and researching new opportunities. This dry-erase board fits easily above your keyboard.

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

Assel Grant Services

We can’t come in on gameday and put together a proposal without any preparation and expect to win big. First, you want to look for open opportunities, commonly referred to as requests for proposals (RFP), notice of funding opportunities (NOFO), grant or funding cycles, or simply funding opportunities.

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Writing About Need so Funders Will Get It

Grant Professionals Association

It is the soul of your proposal, usually the first impression people have of your case, and the way you introduce your work to a funder. Everything should return to your stated need as it sets the tone for the rest of your proposal. And that is before you even get to character counts!

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Sabotage: Obstruction or Treason

Grant Professionals Association

Despite our best efforts and knowledge, sometimes sabotage can sneak in to derail progress on a project or proposal. This changed the language in other sections we had spent the previous week working on to align throughout the proposal. The Oxford Dictionary lists some common synonyms for sabotage as to undermine, cripple or impair.

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Hard and Fast Proof: The Quest for Demographic Data

Grant Professionals Association

You might be tempted to paste the narrative part into your grant proposal as is!) GPC Competency: 4 Identify and cite accurate and appropriate data sources to support proposal narratives measurable data points for long-term program and impact assessments.

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Juicing up Your Federal Grants to Engage Reviewers

Grant Professionals Association

But with proposal narratives that can reach 60+ pages in length, adding creative touches to break up a heavy narrative can make a federal proposal more readable and thus easier for reviewers to assess. The following summarizes ways in which I try to make my proposals stand out. The logic model. My outline?