Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Regardless of the pricing model, it’s essential to note that paying a grant writer based on a percentage of awarded funds is both unethical and prohibited by industry standards. Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints.

Grant

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

A strong grant proposal has sections about the organization’s background, project details, story, budget, and ways to measure success. Definition and purpose of grant writing Grant writing includes research, drafting, and submission of proposals to receive financial awards that support specific projects or programs.

Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Understanding the Purpose of Grants Grants are financial awards provided by various funding organizations or agencies to support specific projects or initiatives. Budgeting and Financial Reporting Accurate budgeting and financial reporting are vital components of grant writing. Indirect Costs Overhead and administrative costs.

Grant Writing

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Each grant-making agency is charged with ensuring its awards use the data standards for future information collection requests. Call me cynical, but I doubt any of this will make much of any difference in the real-world grant award process. It does not appear that the data elements have been finalized. What does other factors mean?

Federal Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 3, 2022

At our most recent Grant Writing Made Easy workshop, we did a deep dive into nonprofit program budgets. Of all the topics I teach inside the course, the budget is the one that students have the most anxiety and confusion around. (By Follow this 3-step process for creating nonprofit program budgets. Understand the key terms.

Budget

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

Managing your grants within your fund accounting system will allow you to budget by grant, report on budget vs actuals, and review grant activity, so you can quickly and easily answer these questions. No matter your mission, grant reporting will help drive success by ensuring compliance and accurately reporting on these awards.

Indirect Cost

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Incorporate these best practices into your processes before applying for a grant and after you win an award to make sure you stay compliant with the grant requirements. Pre-Award Preparation Have certain policies and processes in place before applying for a grant so you can be confident you meet their requirements and there are no surprises.

Government

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

We’ll start by discussing the “why” of these changes, why the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decided to make them now, and how they align with larger changes happening in the federal government. The new guidance states that cognizant federal agencies will uphold these indirect rates and pass-through entities (PTEs) must do the same.

UEI

Grant Geek

MARCH 1, 2022

Everything you need to know to develop a brilliant grant proposal budget. A grant proposal budget outlines your intended expenses if you are awarded the grant funding, specific to the project or program stated in your proposal. Some grants also require the applicant to match a portion of their budget. Let’s talk.

Budget

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. Lead a Revenue-Wise Strategy Session As a financial leader, you touch all areas of your nonprofit organization through budgeting, forecasting, and expense management. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

Indirect Cost

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

NGMA divides the grant lifecycle into three phases: pre-award, award, and post-award. Have you ever wondered what indirect costs entail, or heard the term “de minimus rate” and questioned what that means? These indirect costs can be allocated to grant proposals. What are indirect costs?

Indirect Cost

Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When approaching writing this section of your proposal, aim to include details that help the funder see why your organization is best suited to solve the problem or need at hand, if awarded the grant. Project budget Here you’ll get down to the dollars and cents required to address your need or problem.

Proposal

Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

According to early results from GrantStation's Spring 2017 State of Grantseeking™ Report, 75 percent of those organizations that submitted just one grant application won an award. And the number of applications submitted increases the likelihood of winning awards. This can be difficult to do.

Grantstation

iGrantWriters

JUNE 27, 2023

Award decisions will be based on mutual agreement and acceptance of the terms and conditions outlined in the request for proposal and the recipient's CESU Master Agreement. The established CESU Program indirect rate is 17.5%. A full proposal and budget are not required at this stage.

Indirect

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?” I’ve even negotiated that none of us ask for Indirect Costs so all the money goes directly to the program!

Indirect Cost

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For many organizations, the terms "transparency" and "accountability," when uttered in the same sentence as "indirect/administrative costs," mean only one thing: it's time for another round of belt-tightening. They're making awards to a variety of organizations.

Grantstation

Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. What is Uniform Guidance? Before 2013, federal grant requirements were located in multiple OMB circulars.

GPC

GrantNews

JANUARY 11, 2024

Reality: Operating costs, such as paying utility bills, rent, salaries, and investing in office equipment are referred to by a variety of names, including “overhead,” “administrative costs,” and “indirect costs.” Funding supports libraries with little access to budget assistance.

Indirect Cost

Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2017

One of the participants asked this question, which I feel sure is on the top of your mind as well: "Program grants have a budget directly related to them, and for the most part do not cover operations or overhead costs. Indirect and administrative costs remained the same or decreased for 70 percent of respondents.

Grantstation

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. There are exceptions to these average grant amounts, with some of the larger private foundations awarding grants in the 6-figure range.

Funding

Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

The areas where questions typically come up tend to fall into one of six buckets: (1) eligibility, (2) formatting, (3) scope, (4) personnel, (5) budget, and (6) partnerships. Still others may provide level-of-effort guidelines, such as “Key personnel must be budgeted for a minimum of x% FTE [full-time equivalent] on the grant.”

Funding

Get Fully Funded

JULY 8, 2024

Here are some of the key aspects of nonprofit HR, according to Astron Solutions : Limited resources : Most of the time, nonprofits work on tight budgets and don’t have a lot of resources to devote to HR tasks when they need to focus on their productivity in other areas just to keep the doors open. But it’s a different story for nonprofits.

IT

Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

This includes writing outcomes into an application that the organization is capable of tracking or has a plan in place to do so if awarded, a process for tracking time and effort of grant-funded staff, and following the organization’s policy for soliciting bids related to the project. Why is this addressed so thoroughly?

Ethics

Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In the process of developing your grant strategy, you’ll be forced to consider how many opportunities you can reasonably pursue given your current budget and staff. Some questions to consider are: Budget Target : How much grant funding will you need to bring in to meet your revenue goals? Absolutely not.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2024

Budget: A clear and detailed budget is essential to assure funders that their money will be spent wisely. Itemize and justify each cost associated with the project, from direct costs like materials and labor to indirect costs such as administrative expenses.

Grant Writing