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Your Comprehensive Nonprofit Guide to Getting Started with NEA Grants

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

Because these grants are smaller and have a less complex application process, they are usually an org’s first NEA grant before they jump into the deep end with the NEA’s larger grant opportunities. You will need this to create your SAM registration in the next step and you can also use it to access the grants.gov portal, too.

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Meet the Experts: Interview with TechImpact’s Sam Chenkin

Tech Soup

Sam Chenkin is someone who has advised many people on what to do – in an understandable non-jargony way. Sam’s philosophy is that there shouldn’t be an expectation for busy nonprofit people to be experts in technology, but it is important that they be self-sufficient. ” Here’s my conversation with Sam.

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Tell Us Your Sources - Without Telling Us Your Sources

ProposalPRO

You may not see it this way, but Uncle Sam sees your leap into hyperspace as a way to add information beyond the allowable page limit. Even if this does not reveal the reviewer’s exact identity, one could make an educated guess as to whom the application is assigned based on the institution from which the IP address originated.” #3.

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The Advantages of Asymmetric Information

ProposalPRO

Same Information, Different Understanding Uncle Sam provides information about grants for free. You have access to the grant Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), application instructions, forms, Frequently Asked Questions, and webinars. So how does asymmetric information work in the government grants space?

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The bill aims to ameliorate the complex nature of the grant application process, as well as the lack of transparency and accountability around funding decision processes, which are currently opaque at best. Still, we have yet another reform effort coming soon (or as is said in Jamaica when youre waiting for a dive boat, soon come).

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Summer Reading and Federal RFPs

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Let me tell you, reading a Request for Proposal (RFP), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), or whatever acronym the funder calls its grant application guidelines is not NEARLY as exciting as the next great novel. This ensures all your i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed.

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Spotlight State: Connecticut

GrantNews

This is where ‘Sam’ (his actual name) wrote the legendary novel titled Huckleberry Finn. First-time applicants are required to submit a pre-application form. Applicants must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) prior to applying. The sperm whale is the official state animal.