Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I had the esteemed pleasure of presenting at the Grant Professionals Conference (www.[link] Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. hours but 3 full hours.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Recently, I attended MyFedTrainer ’s Grant Writing Boot Camp (GWBC) hosted by our team’s founder and President, Diane H. Having written many federal grants in the past, I was excited to hear insights from another seasoned grant professional. Grant writing is not a solo sport! Leonard, GPC, RST. Set deadlines early.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When it comes to making an impact on the communities and issues they have prioritized as a philanthropic body, grant funders live vicariously through their awardees. Fortunately, there are tools in the world of program evaluation that we can tap into as grant writers to tell our stories of impact in a compelling way.

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The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 9, 2024

As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff. His treatise, The Rhetoric , laid out a durable blueprint for creating persuasive arguments and the elements he described are as useful today as they were in 4th century BC Greece. The first of these is ethos.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Often, the reason a foundation declines a grant has nothing to do with you. Funders seek a return on investment With so many applicants and limited funding to go around, foundations view a grant as an investment. It’s not uncommon for nonprofits to struggle with securing funding despite the strength of their programs.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you are gift-giving for fellow writers or want to send a subtle hint to someone, here is a list of items to surround yourself with to create the perfect grant-writing atmosphere. Quartet Dry-Erase Whiteboard A place to jot down notes during a call or visualize a logic model as you talk through program elements.

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Instrumentl

MAY 14, 2024

Demystify grant outcomes with our comprehensive guide. Learn what grant outcomes are, why they're crucial indicators of success, and how to report them to funders. Drawing insights from Steve Boland’s webinar on using logic models, we'll provide a structured approach to measuring grant success effectively.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 10, 2022

Either/or thinking has stopped or slowed some major career choices such as employee vs. consultant, grants vs. fundraising, grant writing vs. coaching or training. That’s why Amanda and I gathered examples of positive steps, big and small, that people in the grants profession have taken to address DEI.

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Grant Training Center

MAY 30, 2023

Successful grant writers possess a variety of characteristics that contribute to their effectiveness. Thus, successful grant writers: Strong Research Skills: Can identify relevant funding opportunities , understand the funding organization’s priorities and requirements, and gather supporting data and evidence for their proposals.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 4, 2024

In the realm of federal grants and education service grants, timing is everything. Securing funding through grants demands foresight and meticulous planning, often long before the grant cycle officially opens. Grant cycles, more often than not, operate on tight schedules, sometimes lasting no more than six weeks.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

As a grant professional, I smile when these opportunities for "ah-ha" moments arise. I specialize in grants supporting women, children, health, and education, so some of my clients' outputs are similar to # of health training sessions provided, # of women helped, or # of students taught. outcomes win grants.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

So, are you ready to up your fundraising and development goals for 2024 by securing grant funding? Organizational development plays a crucial role in the process of becoming grant-ready by providing the foundation and framework necessary to effectively pursue and manage grant funding.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 22, 2024

Simply put, the people who write grant applications may be surprised to discover how difficult it can be for respondents to understand and answer their questions.” If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?”

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 26, 2023

Celebrating 8 Years of Innovation: Special Discount on AI-Powered Grant Writing Course As we celebrate the 8-year anniversary of our business this June, we’re offering a special $80 discount on our revolutionary AI-powered grant writing course using the code: 8YEARS. What is Chat GPT and How Does it Work?

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you have not yet had any “ah-ha moments” when it comes to learning how to write grants, you are in for a real treat. This is the holy grail of grant writing. The problem is that many nonprofit leaders and some grant writers do not have a clear understanding of the difference between goals, outcomes, and outputs.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Like many of you, we’ve worked on grant proposals that have not come together easily, and the final product feels mediocre at best. When a funder awards a grant to your organization, it is investing in your organization, and that investment usually comes with expectations regarding how the money will be used. avoiding jargon).

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

I don’t mean to infer that reading grants is boring, and I’m not promoting performance-enhancing drugs. I’ve written grants, primarily federal grants, for more than 30 years, but my love is creative writing. Some might see creative writing as antithetical to federal grant writing. The logic model.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

January 01, 2023 Like many of you, we’ve worked on grant proposals that have not come together easily, and the final product feels mediocre at best. When a funder awards a grant to your organization, it is investing in your organization, and that investment usually comes with expectations regarding how the money will be used.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 4, 2024

Although applying for federal grants may be tempting, they are definitely not for every nonprofit organization. Winning grants for nonprofits offered by government agencies do take time. Here are six clear signs that federal grants may not be for you - at least for now, anyway. Not all federal grants require a match.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Pursuing grants is hard work. Grants are time-consuming, very competitive, and after all the time, money, and energy spent writing grants, there is no guarantee that your nonprofit will be awarded. She is a grant professional, an active speaker, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Grant Professionals Association.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

Author Bio: Amanda Acton, GPC (she/her) is a grant professional living in Central Iowa (unceded traditional lands of the Baxoje). After Herman Melville convinced her not to become an English teacher, she instead wend her way into the world of grants. She also enjoys proselytizing about grants whenever she can.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

You might be tempted to paste the narrative part into your grant proposal as is!) Keith supports nonprofits and small and large businesses with professional grant writing and digital content writing needs and challenges, including county, state, federal, and foundation grants as well as web pages and online articles and blog posts.

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Professional Grant Writers

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Across a range of sectors, grant funding can be a critical factor in turning visions into reality. And professional grant proposal writing services. The post What is included in grant proposal writing services? appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Over more than 25 years of researching, prioritizing, writing, developing objectives, creating evaluation plans, and tangling with logic models, I never spent much time measuring a crucial aspect of work that affects all those tasks and more—my happiness. What makes you happy about the work you do?

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

But long before this impact occurs, when the grant is still just an idea, the grant writer is trying to wrangle three or four other non-profits to all work together on this “collaborative project.” Has there been a grant or two that we ended up passing on because the group could not agree on splitting the funding?

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

After more than quarter of a century in the grants field, significant issues that require learning new problem-solving skills can still arise. While it worked out and both projects were funded, it was the beginning of some internal changes in how grant collaborations are conducted.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

New to the world of corporate philanthropy, I dove into the complexities of grants management, logic models, and theories of change. I worked with an array of practitioners—grants managers, program officers, finance experts, and others—and learned everything I could about corporate social impact.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

March Madness is in full swing, and all this talk about competition and brackets makes me think about how grant writing relates. Grants, much like professional sports, are competitive, and increasingly so. To be competitive, your grant team must train and prepare to advance through the rounds and win awards.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofits rely on various sources of funding, including individual donations, grants from foundations and government agencies, corporate sponsorships, fundraising events, and earned income (e.g., Identify values, mission, and goals of your organization’s overall strategic plan as it relates to the grant process/grant seeking

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 16, 2025

This focus on one solution is tied to many of the dysfunctions in the sector, but two, Overdependence on Data and Quantitative Metrics, and Funding Constraints and Grant Dependency, are most intimately tied to how we typically bring solutions to life. We like to represent our work like its clean, under control, and spot-on.

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