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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

Program design tools help us structure our logic models and theories of change. But oh, the triumph when you mailed it, boxed up with carbon copies and hope! Fast forward to today, we are blessed. Technology supports every part of the process. Digital research platforms give us up-to-date stats and funding sources at our fingertips.

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Too Many Fingers in the Pie? Here’s a Surefire Recipe for Cross-Agency Grant Work

Grant Professionals Association

If Charlie was supposed to get the logic model to you two days ago, you need to be empowered to go to his boss about it. Divide up the narrative sections but then pick one person to put the final polish on it all to make sure it reads as a coherent whole. Most important: set interim deadlines and enforce them.

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Multitasking – Exploring Grant-Related Words, Installment #2

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

This blog series allows us the joy of examining our favorite words and lamenting our not-so-favorite words. In other, more energetic moments, we might believe that our brains can magically do and focus on multiple programs, multiple drafts, multiple budgets, and multiple logic models at one time. That skill is our superpower.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

Blackbaud

In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be. 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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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. You can learn the basics of creating logic models for your programs in Candid’s Introduction to Measuring Your Impact course.

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Hard and Fast Proof: The Quest for Demographic Data

Grant Professionals Association

Keith supports nonprofits and small and large businesses with professional grant writing and digital content writing needs and challenges, including county, state, federal, and foundation grants as well as web pages and online articles and blog posts. measurable data points for long-term program and impact assessments.

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Juicing up Your Federal Grants to Engage Reviewers

Grant Professionals Association

The logic model. Developing a logic model before I start writing tells me who my characters are, what’s going to happen, and what the end result will be. I definitely fall into the former category when creating fiction, but I am firmly among the latter when I write a grant. My outline? Don’t forget emotion : Emotion?