Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This is the second of a six-part series on 2024 foundation grant prediction. If you missed part 1, you can still check it out here. In this series, Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates are sharing our insights into foundation giving. These predictions are based on the most up-to-date information available as well as our in-the-trenches work with our nonprofits.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Let’s look at a foundation grant prediction for 2024. The past few years has been a wild ride on the stock market. It is impacting everything from retirement accounts to college savings accounts. And yes, the ups and downs of the stock market are also impacting foundation grants. This is the first of a six-part series on 2024 predictions for foundation giving.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Millionaire Grant Lady loves winning grants for STEAM programs. In the last two months, Millionaire Grant Lady has won 5 grants of over $308,000 for the Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center’s (NAEC) only-of-their-kind STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) experiences for students of all ages, from pre-kindergarten through adulthood: A is for Aerospace , Camp Soar , and the Home Front Experience.

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MAY 1, 2023

Alex Dunn, the Millionaire Grant Lady, has been selected to present at the this year’s Association of Fundraising Professionals Dallas Fort Worth Philanthropy in Action Conference on June 16 th. This is the southwest’s largest and most prestigious regional conference of fundraising professionals. Alex will be presenting the Template for Grant Writing Success.

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JUNE 1, 2023

We can learn a lot from the classic Disney movies. One of my favorites is Beauty and the Beast– the original version of course! This timeless tale teaches us that there are behaviors that win others’ love and behaviors that push people away. Funders are people too. In every impression of your organization, you are either drawing them closer to you or pushing them farther away.

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JULY 3, 2023

One of the hardest elements of grant fundraising is finding the right funder prospects. Unfortunately, most funders don’t have websites. In fact, according to Candid , the new organization formed with the merger of Guidestar and The Foundation Center: “Since 90% of U.S. foundations do not have websites, the insights you need to find funders will not be discovered via standard search engines.

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JULY 13, 2023

For the second time in three years , Millionaire Grant Lady has won a $1.5 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMHSA ) to help a Texas-based organization respond to the opioid crisis. Only 14 grants were awarded during this cycle of funding, which will be awarded over a three-year period in $500,000 increments by SAMHSA’s Emergency Department Alternatives to Opioids program, which exists to develop and implement alternatives to opioids for pain man

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Millionaire Grant Lady

AUGUST 1, 2023

Last month, we talked about how you have to find the right number and the right fit of foundation funders to grow your organization’s grants. I often talk with clients who are doing one of two key mistakes in finding the right funders. Either they are: Not seeking funding from enough or the right funders. They need help identifying the right funders and submitting enough applications to be successful.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

One of my favorite celebrations that I have is when a client succeeds in getting funding with a new funder. The hardest grants to get are your very first grants ever. The second hardest grants to get are your first grants with new funders. It is hard to get your foot in the door. But, once you have your foot in the door, then you can grow your funding year-over-year with them.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Nonprofit program design is a vital component to winning grants. Both foundation and government funders read a ton of grant applications. They can tell if a nonprofit program design is fully developed and is likely to be successful or not. You can’t wrap up a half-baked cookie as a good gift, and you can’t wrap up a half-baked program as a fundable grant.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Hiring a grant writer is one of the most important decisions a nonprofit can make. Nonprofit organizations rely on outside funding to operate. This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Gone are the days when organizations could rely on private donations for consistent, sufficient funding.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A grant writer is vital for organizational growth, but hiring a full-time grant writer is not always the best fit. Grant funding is an essential part of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. In fact, according to the 2022 Grant Professionals Association Salary Survey , grants account for 32% of total revenue for organizations on average. While many nonprofits rely on grant funding for a significant portion of revenue, how nonprofits fill their grant writing needs varies significantly from org

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Some people in fundraising have taken an attitude of entitlement for nonprofits and grants by suggesting that nonprofits deserve funding. They have implied that for the wealthy or for foundations to not support a nonprofit with grants is perpetuating inequities and all sorts of evil in the world. I could not disagree with them more. I believe that gratitude is the right attitude for grant seeking.

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