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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

Before AI, cloud-based platforms, and fancy grant management software, grant writing was a hands-on, paper-filled, finger-cramping journey. Program design tools help us structure our logic models and theories of change. That napkin? That’s the birthplace of some of the best nonprofit program designs.

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Organizational Development in Becoming Grant-Ready

Grant Professionals Association

This entails creating clear program logic models, outcomes frameworks, and evaluation plans that align with the organization's mission and vision.Partnerships and Collaborations: It cannot be emphasized enough that building partnerships and collaborations with other organizations, stakeholders, and funders is crucial.

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Sabotage: Obstruction or Treason

Grant Professionals Association

When I get overwhelmed in the grant process, I sometimes delay challenging tasks or spend time honing a narrative instead of focusing on undone tasks. PLEASE SHARE : Have you identified a key sabotage vulnerability in your grants process? By doing so, I mentally allow myself the gift of productivity, which spurs more effectiveness.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. These are often perceived as disconnected from and less important than grant strategy.

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