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A disturbing trend in Notices of Funding Availability (NOFOs): the incredible shrinking grant proposal

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

This post could lead to a 2025 sequel: The Incredible Shrinking Grant Proposal. Faithful readers also know that I started writing grant proposals shortly after the last Ice Age ended. As we’ve written about before, proposal formatting requirements change over time. Back then, the term of art was Request for Proposals (RFP).

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Applying the Stages of Group Development to Grants

Grant Professionals Association

Have you encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal? This article will briefly describe Tuckmans framework and then apply these ideas to grant proposal development. The group will determine the scope of the proposal and the amount to request. Take heart.

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities. What changed?

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. A similar process unfolded for many other federal grant programs for funding facilities. What changed?

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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

That data makes its way into various products and services to help: nonprofits find funding; researchers, advocates, and journalists derive insights into what is happening in the sector; and all types of funders to make funding decisions. program support, general support, advocacy); transaction type (e.g.,

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. Perhaps most concerning, Johnson (2008) found that reviewer bias affected as much as a quarter of funding decisions. Finally, please subscribe to my Fund the Change blog, below. 2016, Danthi et al.,

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

Tech Soup

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Expansion of the FCC's Lifeline Service.