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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. One or two metrics in clear, simple language It’s tempting to include as much material as possible in hopes of making a stronger case, but it’s best to keep it simple.

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Grant Outputs vs Outcomes: What's the Difference?

Think and Ink Grants

In logic model language (check this out to learn why logic models are essential), outputs are the direct results of your activities. They are usually expressed as "numbers of" or a similar metric. This success metric will be compared to a baseline number to see if literacy did increase by 50%.

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Productivity Is An Inside Job: Measuring Personal Happiness As A Means To Success

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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.

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Organizational Development in Becoming Grant-Ready

Grant Professionals Association

Moreover, strategic planning aids in establishing organizational direction and focus, mitigating risks, and setting forth clear performance metrics, targets, and timelines to assess progress and achievements organization-wide as well as at the programmatic level.

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Why We Get Stuck in Status Quo: 4 Pitfalls to Addressing Dysfunction and Opportunity in Grantmaking

Blackbaud

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.