Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

Here are five tips for streamlining how you get grant awards to your recipients. Provide a Detailed Notice of Award Sending out the notice of award is exciting for both the funder and the grantee. This is also where you can set up your grant distribution process for success.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

Between the time of submission and award, things change, including factors that could affect your grants success. These are all valid concerns when you receive an award notification. This meeting should include all key personnel that will be impacted by the grant. depending on the nature of the grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Start by Asking the Right Questions: What is the current pre-award process? What is the current post-award process?

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Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

In addition to risk, federal government agencies are asking applicants/recipients to demonstrate their ability to manage federal grants through a robust internal controls policy and procedures manual (sometimes during the pre-award stage) that outlines how organizations will be good stewards of government funding.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Funders have their own expectations of how funds will be utilized, and misusing grant funds—even unintentionally—can damage an organization’s reputation and affect future funding. You can find other blog posts in this series here. Competency #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application Skill 4.7:

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The professional development I attended this year included sessions on grant management, project management, change management, business branding, and the relevance of credentials to the field of higher education.

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Blackbaud

MAY 5, 2025

Creating a streamlined and efficient grant review process can make sure you make data-driven and timely decisions so you can award your grants, and your grantees can drive impact. Here are four common pitfalls that can get in the way of an efficient grant review process, and how you can avoid them.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, there is such an intensive focus on the pre-award stage that, unfortunately, this often leads to people becoming more removed from what needs to happen upon award receipt. grant award) quickly becomes a ball of string. Setting the Table: Repeat after me; grant compliance is a team sport.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

You will want to think ahead about being able to easily capture grant information, set up tasks and deadlines, and then run accurate reports at any time. Fund accounting systems with grant management can help you from beginning to end if you are a grant-funded organization—or want to be.

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PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A Grant Manager's Guide to Internal Controls Did you know, $600 billion is awarded each year in federal grants?? How do they impact your grants and your organization? They assure reasonable accuracy, validity, and reliability of financial management, program, and other information. So, what are they?

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

It is the second priority that grips the attention of awarding agencies and recipients alike. Pre-covid, more than $750 billion was awarded annually with an unacceptable $175 billion in improper payments caused by unintentional errors or intentional acts of wrong-doing. The pressure is on for stewardship of federal funds.

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AmpliFund

MARCH 13, 2024

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

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Too often, grant management is seen as a scary, messy aspect of grant funding, and we have a vague understanding of the requirements or components. In the nonprofit field, it’s common for staff to be put in a role where they manage grants but might not have the knowledge or resources to understand what that entails.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By now, I hope you are realizing grant management doesn’t have to be a scary web of confusing topics and rules. With this grant management series, I aim to outline some of the commonly seen issues and provide resources to learn more. NGMA divides the grant lifecycle into three phases: pre-award, award, and post-award.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

If you have ever flinched at the mention of policies and procedures, conflict of interest, or grant reporting, we may be able to help take the fear out of grant management. Too often, grant management is seen as scary and messy, with staff hesitant to learn because they may uncover more than they know how to handle.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

All the time and effort you put into designing a great project and developing a clear, well-written grant proposal has paid off and you’ve received a notice of award from the funder. Now, it’s time to ensure that you are a great steward of the grant funds that you have received.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. But, does QA/QI also have a place in a nonprofit organization’s successful grants management strategy? Two different kinds of experiences supported this author’s development as a grant professional. Townsel, S.M.,

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to Jitasa , grant management is an ongoing process that begins before funding is even secured. The post Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Doing so will boost revenue for your mission, securing a sustainable, impactful future.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Life for grants professionals managing post-award details can be made easier with the following practices. 5 Tips to Help Line Up Your Ducks Read the Management Documents Most governmental grants will have some sort of manual or guidance published and available to award recipients.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 18, 2023

It is no surprise that with all the fast-moving federal funding that has been distributed over the past few years, those who receive federal awards may not be aware of all of the rules pertaining to award management. What demonstrated experience can be shared regarding previous federal awards management?

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 11, 2024

There is growing consensus that the expectation of “gratitude” in the form of thank-you notes actually perpetuates an imbalance of power between nonprofits and funders and negatively impacts the great work you could be doing together ( NonprofitAF Blog, 2023 ). Read the award letter or grant agreement.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 15, 2024

If you want to explore new areas of the grants profession, such as grant management, you may do a quick read of the Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards (just kidding, there is nothing quick about this!). You could search the archived webinars or join a new Grant Zone community.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 8, 2023

Marrying Project Management and Grant Management to Manage the Grant Pro Workload. Throughout my career as a grant professional, I’ve often been a one-person show. How can I better engage my colleagues in pre and post award grant work?

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

OMB developed a comprehensive guide for the Federal government’s Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for federal awards that became effective in 2014. In essence, this updated, reorganized, and consolidated federal grant management requirements into a single document.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In this blog post, we highlight a new section of the report, which offers specific, actionable takeaways for how donors can maximize their disaster-related giving. . Cargill Foundation awarded several multi-year disaster grants in 2019. Your grants management system may already offer an easy export.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. For example, grantmakers could commit to working with their grants management system provider to leverage existing data repositories that contain nonprofit data.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Grant seeking, proposal development, and post-award management can fill some professionals with dread. Be clear with an entity around what funding is available, in what amounts, for what time periods, and what reporting will be required should funding be awarded. Discouraging collaboration. Communicate.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

If you want to explore new areas of the grants profession, such as grant management, you may do a quick read of the Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards (just kidding, there is nothing quick about this!). The Post Award Grant Management and Compliance pathway is available now, with more in development.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Grant Management Considerations Understanding and following tracking procedures for outcomes, time and effort, and procurement are key to maintaining ethical practices when preparing an application and managing grant funds. Why is this addressed so thoroughly?

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Manage documentation in the system Grants come with a lot of paperwork. From the notice of award to the reporting schedule and requirements, there can be significant non-financial information that informs what you track and how you track it.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Grants: Structured, Specific, and Relationship-Driven I began my work with nonprofit fundraising working primarily on grants. Grants are generally awarded by foundations, corporations, state, or government agencies. Once awarded, the organization will be accountable for the plan that was submitted.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Even when that’s our intention, our practices of extractive, time-consuming, unnecessary grant applications, reports, meetings, and inflexible grant awards achieve the opposite. Let’s examine our practices through the experiences of our grant partners and hold ourselves responsible for doing better by them.”

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

You can find other blog posts in this series here. AGS also offers several on-demand webinars on a variety of topics to support the full grant cycle, including several Evaluation Training topics! AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

There are many ways to create an organized grant plan using tools already at your disposal. At a minimum, a planning document should include funder/grant names, deadlines, who is responsible, and a space to record award decisions and additional reporting deadlines. Excel spreadsheets work well for creating a simple grant plan.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The GPF is a 501(c)3 organization that offers scholarships to help grant professionals in three areas: GPA Membership Scholarships (Open annually February 1 st - 28 th and, if funding is available, August 1 st - 31 st : Membership scholarships provide access to free and discounted resources and training offered by GPA.

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Grant Consulting Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Throughout the next year, we will walk through the main components of our Grantegy Optimization process through our blog and online classes. Making sure grants are properly managed throughout the grant lifecycle comes in three phases: pre-award, award, and post-award.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Funders have a limited amount of dollars to award and, therefore, want to fund effective projects. As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. You can find other blog posts in this series here.

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