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Five Steps to Creating a Winning Logic Model

Think and Ink Grants

I had the esteemed pleasure of presenting at the Grant Professionals Conference (www.[link] Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It was so popular that I did an encore presentation for not 1.5 A three-hour presentation is some serious commitment. hours but 3 full hours. Step 2: Activities.

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From Good to Better to Best – Telling a Compelling Story of Impact

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Becoming familiar with the theory of change and the logic model behind the program design can help us write a narrative that explains how we know that doing something in a certain way can be expected to achieve certain results. . We can expect certain results: participants will feel less isolated and more connected with others.

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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. A good first question is: "what qualifies us to be presenting this plan and this request?" The second pillar of the ancient Greek formula is pathos. The first of these is ethos. Unless an appeal (e.g.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

Blackbaud

It was a comprehensive process including an open-call part 1, an invitation-only part 2, a site visit for finalists, and a presentation highlighting best practices. 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

What makes a proposal compelling is its ability to demonstrate an understanding of the issues and present a convincing solution. Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. For this reason, impacts are not always included in a proposal’s logic model.

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

Peak Proposals

What makes a proposal compelling is its ability to demonstrate an understanding of the issues and present a convincing solution. Example timeline Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. All organizations need money.

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Juicing up Your Federal Grants to Engage Reviewers

Grant Professionals Association

A grant that moves effortlessly from one section to another and doesn’t simply present independent facts and figures can help your reviewer grasp the full picture and make them want to keep reading. The logic model. My outline? Don’t forget emotion : Emotion? In a federal grant?