Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

Knowing how to identify fitting grants and prepare competitive applications raises your chances of winning awards. Phase 1: Pre-Award Phase The pre-award phase lays the groundwork for a successful grant application and funding. It also helps nonprofits understand funder expectations and tailor applications accordingly.

Grant

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Check out the instructive and inspiring blog posts on fundraising from the experts at Blackbaud. The post Get Your Grant-Funded Nonprofit Started in Fundraising first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud. But depending strictly on grant funding can be particularly challenging for a number of reasons. Ready to learn more?

Funding

Just Write Grants

JANUARY 2, 2025

In this blog post, well explore the key grant writing trends anticipated for 2025, including technological advancements, shifting priorities, and emerging best practices. Application Tracking : Enhanced tracking systems will provide real-time updates on the status of applications, deadlines, and funding opportunities.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

MAY 2, 2025

Provide leeway on reporting deadlines and requirements to give them a little breathing roomor forego applications altogether for recurring grantees. Start with flexible applications that feed directly into your CRM. Should demand increase, understand that your grantees may be doing even more with even less.

Government

Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

This blog will explore key strategies and tips to enhance your grant writing skills, helping your organization to secure the funding it deserves. Engage in conversations with peers and seek out mentorship opportunities to learn about successful grant applications and strategies.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

It matters not how organized your application was at the time of submission if you dont hold a proper kick off meeting right from the start. If the grant application included a work plan, you could attach it to the agenda for reference, but save reviewing the plan for a subsequent meeting).

GPC

Blackbaud

MAY 5, 2025

Even when your grant review process involves internal staff or people who have reviewed applications before, it can still be a bumpy process. This includes a formal grading rubric that aligns the questions on your application to specific metrics. Bias isnt just about the application or the organization applying. Life happens.

Grant

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In this blog, well break down the components of grant writing, analyze time estimates, and offer tips to streamline the process, highlighting the importance of calculating average hours for grant writing. Complexity of the Grant Proposal Simple applications for smaller grants may take 10-20 hours. Lets explore these: 1.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

Data is a key component of any strong grant application. When grant applications call for evidence that your proposed intervention works, citing scientific articles can strengthen your case. Whats one trick youve used to locate high-quality data for grant applications? Relevant data can be found on pages 16 and 19.

Grants

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

For example, presenting a communitys poverty rate as 30% when it is actually 20% may make a proposal seem more urgent but undermines the integrity of the grant application. If funders discover discrepancies during the review process, it can result in disqualification or reputational harm to the applicant.

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Keep the Relationship Where It Belongs: As a consultant, your name should never appear on a clients grant application. Even worse, Ive seen consultants use their name recognition or insider funder relationships to get applications over the finish line. The relationship with the funder, first and foremost, belongs to the nonprofit.

Ethics

Blackbaud

JULY 2, 2025

It can be easy to get caught up in writing a winning grant proposal without being picky about your applications. Your application explains that you have no experience in marketing, but you’re excited to provide advice regarding the organization’s financial activities. Let’s be honest: Not all grants are a good fit for your nonprofit.

Proposal

Blackbaud

MARCH 18, 2025

Some funders are reimagining grantmaking by introducing ultra-streamlined applications, such as five-minute screening forms (in lieu of Letters of Intent), and by allowing brief video reports in place of traditional written ones. They didnt require an application, and grantees didnt know the additional funds were coming.

Burnout

RBW Strategy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For those who have spent countless hours preparing federal grant applications, you know that this isnt easy. You need to have a strong case statement and adequate responses to the narrative prompts in the application to ensure that you have justification for this funding. Seems like a win, right?

Award

Fluxx

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore the key details of the ASPCA National Shelter Grants Initiative, including eligibility requirements, the application process, and how this funding can help your organization continue its vital work.

Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

I asked: “Can you write a 300-word blog post about the ethical uses of AI in grant writing?” Here’s a 300-word blog post for you: The Ethical Use of AI in Grant Writing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming many industries, and grant writing is no exception. How could AI compete with that?

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Its always satisfying when you can include a Memorandum of Understanding, signed six months earlier, as an attachment to your application. Who fills out the SF-424 application? Whatever your individual assignment is for the application, dont wait until the day before its due to realize youve bitten off more than you can chew.

Logic Model

Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2025

In this blog, well cover everything you need to know about the key foundations of an effective donation form , along with practical tips and tricks to boost conversions and satisfaction alike. Then, if applicable, the platform provides information on how they can submit a matching gift request.

Donation

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Integration with other platforms you use: You can use pre-configured integrations with third-party applications, such as email or online auction tools, to extend the power of your CRM. The post Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

CRM

Blackbaud

JANUARY 6, 2025

If your application completion rate is low, you might jump to creating another webinar and flyer to walk people through the process, when it might be that your application is too long and requires bespoke data. The post How to Lead with Courage: A Conversation with Satonya Fair first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

AI

Blackbaud

APRIL 23, 2025

After a lot of research, conversations with community members, and writingand re-writingquestions, your application for funding is live. Reviewing the applications and selecting the organizations to fund. Application portals can also flag incomplete submissions, prompting applicants to address any gaps before submitting.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 2, 2024

One of the most common reasons applications are rejected is due to a lack of alignment with a funder’s current priorities. By researching funders, you can discover the information you need to tailor your grant application to the funder. Understanding the Application Process Not all funders have the same application process.

GPC

Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

How does an enterprise-scale CRM provide better data for an AI application? The post 7 Signs Your Organization Is Ready for an Enterprise-Scale CRM first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud. The kind of large, clean data sets AI systems require has historically been a point of weakness for nonprofit organizations.

CRM

Strategic Grants

JUNE 18, 2025

To avoid AI misuse when writing grant applications, here are some of our top tips for making sure AI is your helpful sidekick and not hindering your grant writing: 1. Remember, it will be a human evaluating your application! And remember, an application is only part of the recipe for grants success. Know AI’s limitations.

AI

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll break down these three types of grants, explain their unique characteristics, and offer guidance on how to use them effectively. Detailed Proposals : Applications for capital grants often require detailed plans, cost estimates, and timelines. Capital Grants 1.1

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At a time when disasters are occurring in great numbers, you have to ride herd on your initial communication with FEMA and make sure that your application does not fall through the cracks. Once you submit your initial file to FEMA, check back once or twice every week until they schedule the preliminary scoping meeting with your staff.

Utilities

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Even though they hold the purse strings, you can approach them respectfully unless the opportunity prohibits them from talking individually with applicants. Timing The timing of when you should reach out depends on the mode of application. Let’s discuss timing, communication strategies, and what to do if you get ghosted.

GPC

Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

This confirmation can help verify that the email address is correct and there have been no changes in contact information since the application was submitted. Finally, consider requesting acknowledgement that they received the notice of award.

Grant

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

AUGUST 4, 2025

[NOTE: This is the start of a new seven-part series of blog posts based on Dr. Drew’s answers to the  most urgent questions  time-strapped executive directors are likely to ask about leveraging  ChatGPT to improve their grant writing.] ChatGPT can save you time on grant writing—it can accelerate your grant writing process.

ChatGPT

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

The application process: If it is invitation-only, I put the funder in a separate section to let the client know that an application first requires building a relationship with the funder to secure an invitation, which takes intentional effort and time. Finances: How much money does the funder have to grant?

IT

Fluxx

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For seldom fully resourced local governments, the administration of grant applications, compliance, and even reporting is immensely burdensome. In this blog, we look at how local government grants work, what the key features required to enable such processes are, and why Fluxx is necessary to make such grant-making efficient.

Grant Management Software

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

In this blog: When do nonprofits need urgent grant help? For example, our team has supported nonprofits with completing a new funder search , writing a single federal grant, or preparing a new grant template for your team to use to complete grant applications. What does a grant consultant bring to the table?

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 13, 2025

A few years ago, I spent months working with a client on a proposal for a HRSA funding opportunity, and about a month after we submitted, HRSA announced they would not be reviewing any applications. This was no fault of the applicants; it was just a change in priorities. Author Bio: Amanda Lipsey Ethics Committee

HRSA

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 1, 2025

This model can accommodate a funder’s project-based grant application form, or be used to develop a stand-alone proposal that you can ask funders to PLEASE accept to allow you to be more efficient with your resources. How do you respectfully push back on the burdensome requirements that many grant applications contain?

Funding

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Choose language specific to giving (submit my donation or donate [$XX]) over more general terms (submit) where applicable. Share your donation page via email, social media, digital ads, your websites blog, in-person events, flyers, and billboards. Optimize the submit button. Gather relevant information to add to your CRM.

Donation

Blackbaud

APRIL 1, 2025

Connect organizations to share resources and make introductions where applicable. As Kris Putnam-Walkerly wrote on her blog, Uncertainty isnt an excuse to retreatits a call to adapt. The post Strategies for Impactful Grantmaking During Funding Uncertainty first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

Funding

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Subject matter partnerships benefit programs, organizations, and team members through shared knowledge and divided challenges, and they can even make the application process enjoyable. Set your partners up for success: Collaborators are typically busy professionals for whom a grant application is added labor.

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