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Logic Models for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide

Wild Apricot

Learn the step-by-step process for building a nonprofit logic model to see long-term success. Looking to streamline your nonprofit program?

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

Grant Professionals Association

Who will manage the money? 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. Clarify roles. Decide right from the start which organization is going to be responsible for what, above and beyond the services you each provide. Who will write the grant?

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A Classical Approach to Grant Proposals

The Grantsmanship Center

As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff. Nonprofits demonstrate their ethos by what they have done, the credentials of their people, their record of prudent management and stewardship of money. The first of these is ethos.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

Blackbaud

Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing excellence in nonprofit management. 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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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

If you don’t communicate a plan for how you will launch and manage your project, funders may be hesitant to invest in your project, regardless of whether they are generally supportive of your project idea. Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model.

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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

If you don’t communicate a plan for how you will launch and manage your project, funders may be hesitant to invest in your project, regardless of whether they are generally supportive of your project idea. Example timeline Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model.

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Six Signs Your Nonprofit Isn't Ready to Apply for Federal Grants

Think and Ink Grants

Reporting requirements for federal and some government grants require the right people and systems for proper grant management. Some may require developing a logic model, which is even more difficult. You have zero experience winning or managing any grant. We talk more about this and the related consequences here.