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Understanding the Grant Lifecycle: Info for Nonprofits

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This article breaks the grant lifecycle into two main phases: the pre-award phase and the post-award phase. Knowing how to identify fitting grants and prepare competitive applications raises your chances of winning awards. Accept Funding Accepting funding requires more than just signing a contract. Ensure compliance.

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Grant Distribution Best Practices: 5 Tips for Funders

Blackbaud

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. Finally, consider requesting acknowledgement that they received the notice of award.

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Top Accounting Tips for Government Grants

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This guide covers the fundamentals that your finance team needs to know during every stage of the grant so you can handle it confidently from award to closeout. Pre-Award Your finance team’s involvement begins even before your organization identifies a funding opportunity. Check out our grant compliance checklist.

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Stop Begging, Start Planning: Why Foundations Are Done Funding Complacent Nonprofits

Planned Giving

Consequently, foundations now require concrete proof of financial resilience before awarding grants. Organizations lacking diversified funding streams become particularly vulnerable during economic downturns, when both individual giving and foundation support typically contract.

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What Is an RFP and How Is It Best Used to Apply for Grants?

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The order and word usage will differ but they each contain the following sections: Project Goals Scope of Work Current Roadblocks and Barriers to Success Evaluation Metrics and Criteria Submission Requirements These categories are all geared toward helping you ascertain whether your organization will qualify for funding.

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Can Nonprofits Look to the Past to Build the Future?

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Well, if the M&G rate is capped at 10% but your organization’s M&G rate is 20%, then you should be aware that only half of the project’s M&G will be funded (if you are awarded the contract, that is). But the complexity of M&G continues! Remember, your CFO is a resource.

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Grant Management Series: Involving Your CFO throughout the Grant Application Process

Blue Avocado

Well, if the M&G rate is capped at 10% but your organization’s M&G rate is 20%, then you should be aware that only half of the project’s M&G will be funded (if you are awarded the contract, that is). But the complexity of M&G continues! Remember, your CFO is a resource.