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Burned Out but Brilliant: 8 Smart, Sanity-Saving Strategies for Frustrated Grant Writers

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

But youre also exhausted, constantly chasing core operating support, wrangling impossible deadlines, mentoring green writers, and navigating post-award red tape that never seems to end. Dont Let Post-Award Work Crush Your Soul Winning the grant is only half the battle. Sound familiar? Youre not alone. The good news? And diversify.

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IIJA Explainer: Leveraging Available Funds

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Signed into law in 2021, this legislation funds infrastructure projects through 2026. Funds have been distributed at the expected pace with competitive grants taking longer than formula or direct spending. Best Practices for Successful Award Management With increased funding comes increased challenges.

Funding

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3 Ways Grant Management Software Supports Compliance

AmpliFund

APRIL 30, 2024

In wrapping up our latest webinar series , I shared insights into how a grant management system, specifically, AmpliFund, plays a vital role in supporting compliance. Imagine this: You’re trying to find an important form for one of your awards. As you know, how you perform in audits will directly affect the funding you receive.

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Choosing the Right Path: ERP + GMS

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Unfortunately, w hile ERP systems offer a broad range of functionalities to manage various aspects of business operations, their grant management capabilities are not robust enough to enable most organizations to properly manage grant funding. So how does an ERP benefit grants management ?

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How to Successfully Close Out an Award

AmpliFund

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Award closeout is a vital part of the grant lifecycle. It’s when you gather all documentation you’ve created during the life of the award to be compliant with reporting requirements and ensure all expenditures are accounted for. Check out our Award Closeout Checklist.)  Other resources can help too.

Award

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Your Cheat Sheet to Better Grant Budgeting & Financial Reporting

AmpliFund

MARCH 13, 2024

When it comes to reporting requirements and financial management, I touched on the impact of Uniform Guidance, agency guidance, and the specific award documentation. Then consider how your budget and plans impact each stage of your grant lifecycle—and how each phase impacts your budget and plans.

Budget

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Five Grant Recipient Monitoring Best Practices

AmpliFund

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Monitoring your organization’s grant recipients is crucial for accurately measuring outcomes and making informed decisions for future funding. This can lead to incomplete or unreliable information on outcomes and impact, which hinders your organization's ability to assess the effectiveness of funded projects and make data-driven decisions.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Winning Federal Infrastructure Funding

AmpliFund

JANUARY 30, 2023

Right now, communities across the country are benefitting from the unprecedented $1 trillion in funding created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). While there are a lot of federal funds available, many organizations don’t have the capacity or the resources to do the necessary prep work involved in applying for IIJA funding.

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In Case You Missed it: Our Top Grant Management Learning Resources of 2023

AmpliFund

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From ever-evolving federal regulations to establishing internal controls to monitoring recipients, we strive to provide resources that enable you to manage funding effectively and amplify your impact with confidence. To further your success in 2024, we’ve gathered together some of the most helpful resources of 2023 for your review.

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The Top 10 Resources of 2022

AmpliFund

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Grant professionals from various sectors turned to AmpliFund this year for guidance on grants best practices, ensuring they’re in the best position to stay compliant, and resources to help them understand Federal funding.

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3 Tips for Managing Grants

AmpliFund

JUNE 12, 2023

Mistakes can put your program objectives at risk, harm your relationship with funders, and potentially prevent you from getting funding in the future. In some cases, they can result in having to pay back the award. Even more, it can end in a failure to drawdown, noncompliance, and can even get in the way of winning future funding.

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Amplifund Management Grants Grant

Save Time and Effort by Standardizing Data Collection

AmpliFund

AUGUST 16, 2023

These revisions clarified that if a federal awarding agency determines there is “non-performance” on the part of the recipient of federal funds, they can either cancel the award or reduce the amount of funding. So, monitoring the impact you and your funded programs are making with federal funds is a must.

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Best Practices for Creating New Opportunities with a Grants Management System

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We know many grant makers publish new funding opportunities in the spring, and using purpose-built tools to create and manage them saves organizations a lot of time and effort. Grants management software like AmpliFund gives you unlimited application forms, sections, and questions that you can use to build out applications.

Grant Management

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Preparing to Manage Your Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funding

AmpliFund

JANUARY 3, 2023

Grant programs across the country have an unprecedented opportunity to construct vital infrastructure for their communities with the $1 trillion in funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The IIJA has created and begun awarding new formula and competitive grants, and many existing grant programs will receive a boost.

Management

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Burned Out but Brilliant: 8 Smart, Sanity-Saving Strategies for Frustrated Grant Writers

IIJA Explainer: Leveraging Available Funds

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3 Ways Grant Management Software Supports Compliance

Choosing the Right Path: ERP + GMS

How to Successfully Close Out an Award

Your Cheat Sheet to Better Grant Budgeting & Financial Reporting

Five Grant Recipient Monitoring Best Practices

3 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Winning Federal Infrastructure Funding

In Case You Missed it: Our Top Grant Management Learning Resources of 2023

The Top 10 Resources of 2022

3 Tips for Managing Grants

Save Time and Effort by Standardizing Data Collection

Best Practices for Creating New Opportunities with a Grants Management System

Preparing to Manage Your Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funding

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