Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

But youre also exhausted, constantly chasing core operating support, wrangling impossible deadlines, mentoring green writers, and navigating post-award red tape that never seems to end. Dont Let Post-Award Work Crush Your Soul Winning the grant is only half the battle. Sound familiar? Youre not alone. The good news?

Grants

Blackbaud

JUNE 12, 2025

This article breaks the grant lifecycle into two main phases: the pre-award phase and the post-award phase. Let’s explore the objectives, key activities, and best practices within each phase to help your organization navigate grants more effectively. Most grants come with rigorous rules and reporting requirements.

Grants

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.

GPC

Blackbaud

JANUARY 31, 2025

Options could be, This grant provides between $5,000 and $10,000 in funding. or I understand this grant program awards $5,000 to successful applicants. Your grant management system may also integrate with a data repository like GuideStar that will pull that information in based on the organizations information.

Applicant

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.

Grants

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

Grants Management is smoother when its a team effort. Managing the grants process from the application stage through the final reporting works best when there is collaboration from many staff members! How can you use them to recognize the staff on your grants team? What are your favorite stewardship moves?

Grant Management

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?

Grants

Grant Writer Team

MAY 1, 2025

With a talented grant manager in place, you will see continued success for your cause. What is Grant Cycle Management? Grant cycle management is the practice of researching, applying for, and then receiving and tracking grant funds. For this reason, it will become difficult to secure future grants.

Management

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 29, 2025

Now, imagine submitting a grant application in January and receiving the award notice in June. Much like athletes, grant professionals must prepare well in advance to perform at their best. Often, the finance department handles the process, leaving grant managers unaware until after the fact.

IT

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.

Grants

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

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. Understanding the Grant Lifecycle for the Finance Office Government grants follow a predictable journey, and the finance team plays a mission-critical role at each stage.

Government

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.

GPC

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2025

Often seen as just another thing we must do for the money – required grant reports are not typically a treasured task among grant professionals. But what if I told you, it is my FAVORITE part of grants management? Since 2018, Jill has helped non-profits secure more than 42 million in grant funding.

Grants

Allied Grant Writers

MARCH 17, 2025

Government Grants Government grants are typically provided at the federal, state, or local level and can be a significant source of funding for churches, for profit organizations, especially when the projects align with public policy objectives such as community development, education, or social services.

Funding

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Without grants, many nonprofits would struggle to maintain operations or expand their reach to those in need. The significance of grants extends beyond simply providing financial support. Credibility Being awarded grants enhances an organizations reputation.

Funding

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. How grant writers are typically paid Grant writers employ several standard payment structures. Budget development costs an extra $500-$1,500.

Grants

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Take control of your grant process with GrantHub Pro! Whether it's post-award management or full lifecycle tracking, our software makes every step easier. Get real-time insights, stay compliant, and boost collaboration—so you can focus on what really matters: securing more grants and maximizing your impact.

Award

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 29, 2024

For further resources, consider exploring articles like how to apply for a grant or grant writing workshops to enhance skills in effective budgeting for grants. This section discusses the essential aspects of managing grant funds, including tracking expenses, making budget revisions, and understanding reporting requirements.

Budget

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

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. A well-crafted grant proposal can transform organizational needs into compelling funding applications that make influential projects possible.

Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 23, 2025

I have started to count… …Not how many awards we have won this year, or how many dollars have been secured (we already count those all the time). …Not how many days in advance of a formal deadline a grant is submitted (we already track that too).

Grants

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

According to Jitasa , grant management is an ongoing process that begins before funding is even secured.

Fundraising

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

AGS also offers several on-demand webinars on a variety of topics to support the full grant cycle, including grant budgeting, compliance, and grant management to help guide you through the full grant cycle. Competency #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application Skill 4.7:

GPC

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Implementing fund accounting software with subfund capabilities can help your team avoid common nonprofit audit mistakes by streamlining grants management, documentation management, and other key processes. Not completing a monthly close is a top reason for financial nonprofit audit mistakes.

Finance

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.

Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And the problem with that is that also sometimes the grants are defined or the boundaries are defined, but they're very unlikely as to whether or not you'll be able to get those. And if you look at past awards in particular, this will give you some clues with that of how likely are we to get these or not.

Instrumentl

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.”

Burnout

Fundraising HayDay

MARCH 20, 2025

In October 2024, the latest changes to the Office of Management and Budgets (OMB) Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (also known as 2 CFR Part 200 or Uniform Guidance) went into effect. Many changes were beneficial to grantees. Many changes were beneficial to grantees.

Federal Award

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

I let the group of 30 or more people know that my grant management job was ending and that I was open to work. At that meeting, a CEO of a local nonprofit approached me, conducted a brief interview, asked me to visit their offices, and shortly thereafter offered me a position as a coordinator of a grant program.

GPC

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Because if you say you're a school and you want to do this during the school year, but the awards aren't until May and you have to implement over the summer, is that going to make sense for you? But when I looked at their past awards, it was all going to like theater and museum and orchestra type organizations.

Instrumentl

Bonterra

JULY 28, 2025

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Grant Management Software

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 30, 2025

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Retail

RBW Strategy

JANUARY 12, 2024

Building Out a Post-Award Grant Management Checklist After spending 100+ hours working on that federal grant where you were losing sleep (and potentially sanity), you received news from the federal…

Grant Management

GrantNews

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Grant management is the hard work and dedication required to ensure an organization follows a donor’s guidelines. Nonprofits and small businesses dedicate countless hours to the grant writing process. However, responsibly managing grants after the award is just as critical. What is Grant Management?

Grant Management

Professional Grant Writers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Congratulations on securing your federal grant! For many grant recipeints, the celebration gives way to stress as the mountain of compliance tasks begin. The post Essential steps for effective post-award grant management appeared first on Professional Grant Writers.

Grant Management

Fundraising HayDay

MARCH 7, 2024

So many people are focused on getting the grant. But then it’s awarded. Grant management is a key component to keeping your grant awards AND getting future grant awards. Join our conversation with Rachel Werner and Lucy Morgan of MyFedTrainer.com about all things grant management.

Grant Management

AmpliFund

APRIL 30, 2024

In wrapping up our latest webinar series , I shared insights into how a grant management system, specifically, AmpliFund, plays a vital role in supporting compliance. Here are 3 ways grant management software supports compliance: 1. Imagine this: You’re trying to find an important form for one of your awards.

Grant Management Software

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Having a predictable and consistent grant cycle will ensure your team members are able to evaluate each request efficiently and effectively. Here are a few things you can expect for each step of the grant management process, including some best practices on how to ensure the entire cycle works smoothly and effectively.

Grant Management