Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Grant writing is a critical skill for securing funding for nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, businesses, and individuals. Understanding the average hours for grant writing can help you plan resources, set realistic timelines, and improve your chances of success. Lets explore these: 1.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for nonprofits, artists, and educators in Atlanta, aimed at securing funding to enhance community projects and initiatives. This blog delves into the nuances of grant writing, exploring best practices, resources, and success stories from the heart of Georgia.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

Grant writing is a profession grounded in trust. Funders rely on grant professionals to present accurate, compelling narratives supported by credible data. However, in the competitive world of grant funding, it is easy, sometimes even natural, for well-meaning professionals to unintentionally misinterpret or misuse data.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

In grant writing, we understand the importance of the 5 Ws: Who, What, When, Where, and Why. As grant professionals, we have a responsibility to keep Who at the center of every proposal we write because they are the very reason grants even exist. Compassionate grant writing even has the power to inspire.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 9, 2025

Grammar Kerfuffles: Second Installment ( View the other installments here ) Welcome to installment #2 of the grant writing blog series Grammar Kerfuffles, presented for you by DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services! First person singular (I or me) feels awkward (at best) in most grant writing.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 13, 2025

We want to note that sometimes folks find the differences between these grant-related terms confusing. For clarification, please see our blog on this topic. The bottom line, for our purposes in this blog, is that objectives are increments or building blocks of a larger, over-arching goal. But First: Objectives or Outcomes?

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges. Understanding and addressing these common pain points can significantly enhance your nonprofit’s success in securing grants. Time Constraints 1.1 Misalignment or errors in the budget can jeopardize your proposal.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For those of us whose work is creative, focusing in particular on the grant writing work of our team, using AI represents an ethical gray area. ICYMI: The Grant Professionals Association has been talking about this on an ongoing basis and has this current statement about the ethics of AI for our field.)

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Ghostwriting is one of the most common, yet least talked about, practices in grant writing, especially for consultants. But this behind-the-scenes role comes with big ethical responsibility: to support without overshadowing, and to write in a way that centers the clients voice, not our own. And look, I get it.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 17, 2025

Maximizing a consultants impact requires establishing a relationship that fits your teams needs. Development consultantsincluding grant professionals, major donor researchers, capital campaign pros, and morecan fill gaps, but it can be hard to see benefits over their fees. Get your consultant and teamand your board!on-board

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

Im the first full-time grant professional my organization has ever had. I started consulting part-time and slowly took on grant writing and management work. She recently earned her Grant Professional Certification (GPC) and brings over a decade of nonprofit experience to her work. GPC Competencies: 4,5,8

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Before AI, cloud-based platforms, and fancy grant management software, grant writing was a hands-on, paper-filled, finger-cramping journey. What’s the funniest (or messiest) place you’ve ever brainstormed a grant idea? That napkin? That’s the birthplace of some of the best nonprofit program designs.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 29, 2025

You can even use AI tools to analyze your writing and reveal blind spots or weaknesses. Grant writing might sometimes feel like an individual sport, but managing the award is a team effort. As Principal Consultant at Alpha Omega Strategies, he advises schools, nonprofits, and municipalities on strategic grant management.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 26, 2025

Tip: To brush up on the definitions of outcomes and objectives, you may want to read our blog on the difference between objectives and outcomes. Learn more about Theory of Change in another of our blogs. Tip: You can learn more about SMART objectives from our free toolkit and blog.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 17, 2025

A fresh year has our team collecting and reflecting on 2024 data, which leads us to want to share the top 6 blogs that YOU, our incredible reader, have chosen as our top-read blogs of 2024. Our team loves sharing our knowledge when it comes to the 5 Rs of grant writing , and we cant wait for another year of resources to share with you.

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Bloom Grant Consulting

JUNE 9, 2025

top of page HOME ABOUT OUR TEAM VALUES CLIENTS FAQ SERVICES ONGOING SUPPORT BLOSSOM BUNDLE PROSPECT RESEARCH GRANT CALENDAR BLOG RESOURCES CONTACT More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. All Posts Nonprofit Sustainability Grant Writing Prospect Research Cultivation Work With Us Search Ask Jacquee: What is Cultivation?

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: June 29, 2022 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top Want to know how to stay on the "good" list? Start saving 3 hours a week and increase your grant applications by 78%. Grant Writing Classes How to Craft a Standout Grant Application ft.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: March 2, 2022 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top Want to go from Rejected to Accepted? ​In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you 9 reasons your grants are getting rejected, and how to fix them. Look no further! That is amazing.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 25, 2025

One particular grant-writing position proved difficult to fill. Ask nonprofit consultants, human resource specialists and thought leaders for advice. Having employees, consultants, board members or volunteers recruit — like a scout on a sports team — can identify promising candidates. rail-container).hide();

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 23, 2025

As grant professionals/grant writers, we strategize how to use powerful words. This blog series allows us the joy of examining our favorite words and lamenting our not-so-favorite words. As we did in an earlier blog about the word “priorities,” we have investigated for you. That skill is our superpower.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Remote medical consultations through telehealth allow seniors to receive prompt medical advice and treatment from home. The programs and resources discussed in this blog post highlight the importance of providing essential services to enhance the lives of seniors and their caregivers.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: September 8, 2021 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you how to simplify, streamline, and support your team. Find and win more grants for your nonprofit! She has helped nonprofits triple their funding.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 13, 2023

We’re excited to announce the 2022 Top Grant Writing Blogs to Follow. With this mission in mind, our team put together a list of our top go-to grant writing blogs that share tips and tricks to help you as a nonprofit write strong, well written LOI’s and grant applications. Candid Blog.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

APRIL 29, 2021

Whether you’re a newbie to grant writing or you’re a veteran in the nonprofit grant writing arena, no one should ever really be done improving and learning. You also need to talk about the much less obvious stuff that can help you really hone your grant writing chops. After all, it’s a journey, right?

Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

We’re so excited to announce the 2024 Top Grant Writing Blogs to Follow. 2024 Top Blogs to Follow based on what we were reading from them in 2023. We are honored to have been listed in Feedspots’ Top 35 Grant Writing Blogs and Websites for 2023 !) Do you have a favorite grant-writing blog that didn’t make the list?

Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

We’re so excited to announce the 2023 Top Grant Writing Blogs to Follow. With this mission in mind, our team put together a list of our top go-to grant writing blogs that share tips and tricks to help your nonprofit write strong, well-written LOIs and grant applications.

Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Is it just me, or are grant professionals obsessed with numbered lists? I see them everywhere – from blog posts to webinars to podcast episodes. Top 8 ways to ruin a grant proposal. And listen, I’m just as guilty for writing and reading said lists. Top 25 tech tools to improve your productivity.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 14, 2023

It was at that moment I realized I could never hope to be the perfect grant administrator. Trust me, I continue to make mistakes (topics for future podcasts and blog posts), but my stance held true. And don’t you feel better knowing I once lost a grant, but nearly 20 years later, I’m still plugging away and loving this messy work?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over the past few years, we’ve done a Day in the Life of a grant writing consultant (both for me and one of my team members, Alisha ). But the truth is, I no longer do much grant writing consulting myself. What I want you to know is what it’s now like for me as a Grant Writing Boss.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

In response to recent GPA membership survey results showing that 37% of us are grant consultants, a discussion of business development may be helpful. As consultants, we are, in fact, running a business. There’s no doubt that independent grant writers and grant writing firms are on the rise.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a seasoned grant writing consultant, I’ve been privileged to learn the ropes of this unique, highly-demanding, and satisfying profession over the years. Today, let’s tackle a subject that I frequently encounter: How to get started with your very own grant writing business? Network, Network, Network!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, this is part of why our team writes about #GrantsWork and the impact of seeing our Grant Funding in Action on our blog. The post 3 Ways to Celebrate Being a Grant Professional appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. Which of these ways have you tried before?

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Just Write Grants

AUGUST 27, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one such tool that’s making waves in grant writing. From drafting proposals to analyzing grant opportunities, AI promises to streamline the grant application process. In this blog post, we’ll explore both the positives and negatives of using AI for nonprofit grant writing.

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iGrantWriters

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For grant writers, the future looks bright. In 2023, the grant writing industry will be worth estimated in billions. Step 1: Establish yourself as a thought leader in the field of grant writing Be the go-to person in your organization for knowledge about grant writing.

Grant Writing

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As we approach 2025, the landscape of grant writing for nonprofits is evolving rapidly. Staying ahead of trends and preparing effectively can make the difference between a successful grant application and a missed opportunity. Develop a Comprehensive Grant Writing Strategy 2.1 Click here to learn more.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 21, 2024

What can you do to help increase minority organizations’ grant success? Author Bio: Linda Peavy is the owner of LiPav Consulting, a communications and grants company. She has been a professional grant writer for 16 years.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Having worked in the field of immigrant and refugee services for over two decades and serving now in a consultant role, I've observed numerous challenges faced by individuals and organizations operating across language and culture. Language barriers further hinder access to grants unless external support is provided, often by volunteers.

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