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You Won the Grant—Now What? Mastering Post-Award Chaos Without Losing Sleep

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

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!

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Burned Out but Brilliant: 8 Smart, Sanity-Saving Strategies for Frustrated Grant Writers

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

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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From Good to Better to Best – Telling a Compelling Story of Impact

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

Blackbaud

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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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

When a funder awards a grant to your organization, it is investing in your organization, and that investment usually comes with expectations regarding how the money will be used. Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. Example timeline.

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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

When a funder awards a grant to your organization, it is investing in your organization, and that investment usually comes with expectations regarding how the money will be used. Example timeline Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model.

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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

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?” He has successfully written more than $70 million in awarded grants and received his GPC in 2016.