Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It is with deep gratitude and excitement that I write to you with big news about Grant Writing Made Easy and the evolution of my work. After 7 years of running my comprehensive grant writing course, I have made the very heavy decision to officially close the course next year in December 2023. 15, 2023.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As we wrap up 2022 and start planning for 2023, I’d like to make a suggestion: SIMPLIFY. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 5 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such. Catch up on seasons 1 – 4 and stay up to date on the new season here.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MARCH 21, 2023

LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA – As you may know, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) is the story of a middle-aged Chinese immigrant who is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led. This fits how epiphanies work for us.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 12, 2024

Unfortunately, the grant writing field seems to be experiencing the same burnout and fatigue that is impacting other job sectors including education and healthcare. This is leading to more grant writers leaving the field altogether, resulting in fewer qualified grant writers to fill more open positions.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, according to the 2022 Grant Professionals Association Salary Survey , grants account for 32% of total revenue for organizations on average. Some nonprofits make grant writing a small part of someone’s job description. Some nonprofits make grant writing a small part of someone’s job description.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over the past few years, we’ve done a Day in the Life of a grant writing consultant (both for me and one of my team members, Alisha ). But the truth is, I no longer do much grant writing consulting myself. What I want you to know is what it’s now like for me as a Grant Writing Boss. So I did that.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 21, 2024

According to a 2022 report offered by the Young, Black & Giving Back Institute , over 76% of Black-led and Black-benefiting nonprofits operate on less than $500,000 per year, with almost one-third operating on just $30,000 a year. In the past five years, there was hope for a significant change.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Traditional fundraising like grant writing and major donor relations require significant investments of time and effort. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: Everything You Need to Know [2022] | CauseVox. This post has been updated in 2022 for freshness and accuracy. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Statistics: The Benefits.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Traditional fundraising like grant writing and major donor relations require significant investments of time and effort. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: Everything You Need to Know [2022] | CauseVox. This post has been updated in 2022 for freshness and accuracy. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Statistics: The Benefits.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Instead, many organizations rely on grant dollars to fund a significant portion of their budget. According to the 2022 Grant Professionals Association Salary Survey , grants account for 32% of total revenue for organizations on average. For many smaller organizations, grants are most of their “major gifts”.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2022, based on 990 data–remember this is the most recent 990 data we can get– foundation giving was up compared to 2021 in terms of dollars but down significantly in terms of inflation (around 10% according to Giving USA 2023: The Annual Report on Philanthropy of the Year 2022 ).

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Anytime I lead a grant writing workshop, I always ask the attendees to share their grant experience – whether they’ve been a grant professional for years and are looking for a refresher or if they’ve been voluntold that grants are now under their preview. But that dream world of mine does not exist.

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California Grants Portal

MAY 4, 2022

California Libraries Learn (CALL) , a collaborative project of the California Library Association and the California State Library , provides continuing education and professional development for California library staff, including support with grant writing or other library topics.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 25, 2022

When you’re first starting out writing grants, the investment of time that doing one well requires can be big. Of course, as you become more skilled and comfortable with grant writing and you have materials on hand, you can put together grant applications much more quickly. ” Your next steps.

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Elevate

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

November 3, 2022 I started Elevate almost a decade ago with about 10 clients. Today, we’re celebrating a major milestone: 100 current clients of our signature Comprehensive Grant Writing Services (CGWS).

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Grants are time-consuming, very competitive, and after all the time, money, and energy spent writing grants, there is no guarantee that your nonprofit will be awarded. The one thing every nonprofit must do cannot be outsourced - the funder wants to hear directly from you.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The stock market fell significantly in 2022 which likely contributed to less foundation giving in 2023. Here’s a look at both the Dow Jones and S&P returns per year and year closing price for the recent past. We have seen a lot of volatility in the market over the past four years.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

The return of appropriation requests (formerly known as federal earmarks) in 2022 makes reaching out to elected officials even more critical for nonprofits. As grant professionals, we want every advantage we can manage. Don’t let grants stress you out, check out the helpful grant writing services our team has to offer here.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. So in Spring 2022, I decided to leave my academic job at the end of the semester. I learned quickly that I loved the grant writing but hated the rest of the job. Plus, it was a toxic, dangerous workplace.)

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Even with an irrefutable command of grant writing the GPA Code of Ethics , you will encounter situations that give you pause. As grant professionals, we can rely on the GPA Ethical Decision-Making Best Practices for Grant Professionals as our roadmap for making important ethical decisions.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 30, 2024

in 2022 ( 2023 Giving USA Report ). Unfortunately, this higher giving did not outpace inflation. The slightly better news for nonprofits is that the decline in inflation-adjusted giving was only 2.1% last year, compared to 8.4%

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Grant Writer Team

JULY 25, 2024

The nonprofits who set the pace are those who choose the right grant-writing partner. Over 900 federally funded grant programs, on average, allot more than $700 billion in funding every year. foundations offering more than $105 billion in 2022. They have the potential to become the movers and the shakers.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Since its launch in November 2022, millions of users have used the platform to do their homework, summarize content, translate text, and even write code. Grant Proposal And that’s not all. ChatGPT can also help with the time-consuming grant writing process. Well, there’s a solution. The best part?

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 10, 2024

From 2022 to 2023, our organization’s rolls increased by more than 30%, recently surpassing the milestone of 4,500 members. While I work for an organization, my coworkers don't have the background to truly help me through some of my grant writing roadblocks. First, the good news: GPA membership continues to grow. Hooray for us!

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scrolling through the GPA’s website I learned about the Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) offered by the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI). I realized the GPC was an exam that seemed beyond a mere certificate stating I knew about grant writing.

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Grants4Good

MAY 30, 2023

Open AI is the San Francisco based company that released ChatGPT for public use in November 2022. If you’re in the nonprofit fundraising and grant writing field like me, you might ask ChatGPT: Tell me about [name of your city] in two paragraphs. first appeared on Grants 4 Good. Want to learn more?

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is a broad overview of what you need to know about SoS Funding: This fund is meant to support shuttered venues, including live performing arts organizations and those who produce performing arts This is for costs incurred March 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021 Supplemental grants may be issued for costs incurred from March 1, 2020 – June (..)

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

charities in 2022 was down 3.4% After considering the various external influences, there are strategies that may help improve your proposal without overhauling grant-seeking strategies. Here are three recommendations, personal and professional, that can support your grant writing. after adjusting for inflation.”

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2022

For more insights into important nonprofit trends and key strategies, all driven by data, download The State of Nonprofit Fundraising 2022 report. Getting a government grant requires a huge amount of effort in research and grant-writing, and these programs often have long waiting periods, making it difficult to budget around them.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Inflation has been a big issue in 2022, and it’s impacted both the for-profit and the nonprofit sectors. Check out this blog post by Megan Hill of Professional Grant Writers. She talks about how to start writing grants for your nonprofit. Her practical advice makes it easy to dive into the world of grant writing.

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Grant Geek

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Grant Opportunity Report provides a roadmap to which grants are the best fit for your organization. With a Grant Opportunity Report in hand, you’ll be able to plan and prepare for a winning grant season in 2022. . It takes a great deal of time, focus, and expertise to produce a winning grant proposal.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

CFRE International ’s 2022 annual report noted more than 7,700 credentialed members worldwide; this includes two AGS employees. No matter your certification aspirations related to the grants profession, AGS has live and on-demand training to support preparation and continuing education requirements.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, Giving Tuesday raised an impressive ,, $3.1 But don't let that fact deter you from crafting an impactful Giving Tuesday campaign! It offers a significant kickstart to your holiday season fundraising efforts, setting a positive tone for the rest of the year. billion globally , proving its potential to boost donations.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

March 23, 2022 Style guides are reference documents that writers and editors use to ensure consistency within and across publications or materials. If you need a basic overview of what a style guide is, you may want to read that article first and then return to this one.

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GrantNews

MAY 1, 2025

increase from 2022. Professionals Working with Youth to Train Volunteers – Grants up to $10,000 to Ohio teachers from eligible youth organizations to benefit youth and improve volunteer training to improve the applicant’s ability to provide hands-on learning experiences that impact local youth by 4-H educators.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 17, 2023

Consider higher ed in the context of America’s workforce, which is undergoing unprecedented seismic shifts—with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant lockdowns, workers started to rethink their relationship to their jobs ( McKinsey & Company , 2022). Time is now seen as an invaluable commodity ( Stolzoff , 2023).

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ProposalPRO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Federal agencies are working on structural issues that will affect grant-making, grant management, and grant-writing for many years to come. Its goal is to facilitate the use of data and evidence in policymaking and program evaluation across the federal government.

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