Lightning Fast Grant Writing
MAY 12, 2025
The application is submitted, the grants been awarded, and everyones celebrating. post-award requirements. Logic models. Post-Award Pressure Is Real For experienced grant writers, post-award management can feel like the most overlooked and underestimated beast in the grant world. Cue the confetti!
Lightning Fast Grant Writing
MAY 12, 2025
You know how to make funders swoon with a perfectly phrased needs statement and turn complex program logic into pure poetry. 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. Sound familiar?
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Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 9, 2025
Track shifts in funder feedback Pay close attention to reviewer comments—even for awarded grants—as they often hold valuable clues. Were the successful ones better aligned with funder priorities? Did they include stronger metrics or more compelling storytelling?
Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 31, 2025
You’re investing in long-term alignment, not just short-term awards. So when generative AI drafts your need statements and logic model, it’s speaking your language. Your timeline includes a prep meeting, a conditional letter, and eventually a grant award. It’s a map of relationships, cultivation points, and conversations.
Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 4, 2025
What are the ongoing administrative requirements post-award (reporting, site visits, compliance)? When you evaluate grant opportunities, consider not just the front-end work of applying, but the back-end responsibilities if you receive the award. Pro tip: Before applying, walk through a “day in the life” post-award.
DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
After an awarded project is complete, the grant report tells the story of what the partnership accomplished, what was learned, and how a community is better as a result of the work. Fortunately, there are tools in the world of program evaluation that we can tap into as grant writers to tell our stories of impact in a compelling way.
Blackbaud
JANUARY 22, 2024
Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing excellence in nonprofit management. If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?”
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