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Projected Grant Writing Trends for 2025: What Nonprofits Need to Know

Just Write Grants

As we approach 2025, the grant writing landscape is set to evolve significantly. Understanding these projected trends will help nonprofits stay ahead of the curve and optimize their funding strategies. Data-Driven Decision Making By 2025, data analytics will play a crucial role in shaping grant writing strategies.

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Context is Everything: the Problem Statement

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking When writing a grant proposal, assume the reader doesnt know much about your community or the challenges and problems your organization is addressing. Context is information that gives the reader a frame of reference for concepts in the rest of the proposal.

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Writing for Impatient Readers

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking We've written the proposal. Yet if the readers mind wanders after a few minutes, or worse they yawn our proposal may be in trouble. Consider repeating that approach in each section of your proposal. Patty Wolfe is an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations.

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Proposal Writing Skills: Transferable?

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Let’s say you’re an experienced development staffer, or a consultant , and you’ve been submitting grant proposals to support the organization’s mission—call it child care, or mental health counseling, or any other program focus. How far afield is the new field?

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Smart Solutions: How Technology is Empowering Nonprofits

Grant Writer Team

Technology is empowering nonprofits. More and more, technology has become an invaluable tool for nonprofits to use to more efficiently and effectively fulfill their mission. Whether it’s programs or services, nonprofits have to make good use of the (usually) limited resources available.

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When a Federal Grant Suddenly Ends

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Government Funding Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Political changes can lead to changes in laws, policies, and rules. While the legal status of these actions may still be unknown, nonprofits must decide how to move forward. Thousands of federal employees have been fired.

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Context is Everything: Part 2

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking In an earlier blog, I discussed how to strengthen your proposal by adding context to the Problem Discussion with descriptive detail. Part Two is about giving the reader a sense of place to add meaning to the proposal. It will add power and depth to your proposal.