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

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Taking the Time Tunnel back to 2024, we’re in a time when it’s much easier to get federal grants for facilities in rural areas than cities and suburbs. The most flexible federal grants and subsidized loans for facilities are now found in USDA to benefit low-income rural areas. What changed? In FY ‘23, $3.8

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Grant Writing: How to Build Credibility with Your Budget Narrative

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Department of Agriculture , which states that an effective budget narrative “tells the USDA exactly how you will spend its investment” and gives the agency confidence that “you did research and that your project costs are reasonable and well thought-out.” This blog post is part of a series on grant-writing basics.

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Tips for Proofreading Your Next Grant Application

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Enlist the help of someone not involved in the preparation of the application and proposal to review the proposal,” advises a USDA resource. Want more tips about the federal grant writing process? Click here to see other posts in the Grant Writing Basics blog series.

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Interest rates are up and venture capitalists (VCs) are hurting, so companies are suddenly interested in government grants

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Federal grants could still be attractive in the low-interest-rate 2010s environment —the linked post is from 2016—since those grants were non-dilutive and could fund some projects much earlier than VCs typically would. As is so often the case, the law does the opposite of its name.

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

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Taking the Time Tunnel back to 2024, we’re in a time when it’s much easier to get federal grants for facilities in rural areas than cities and suburbs. The most flexible federal grants and subsidized loans for facilities are now found in USDA to benefit low-income rural areas. What changed? In FY ‘23, $3.8

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Hurricanes Helene and Milton reveal a major issue for nonprofits in disaster areas

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If a declaration is made, special funding from FEMA SBA, USDA, DOT, HUD, etc. While Congress has been on one their frequent hiatuses since September 27 for the election and won’t be back in session until November 12 (your tax dollars at work), when they do come back, it will be feeding time at the hog farm for grant seekers in disaster areas.

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