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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

Or the time we used carbon paper to create multiple copies of a grant proposal, leaving our fingers stained and our drafts smudged beyond recognition? Program design tools help us structure our logic models and theories of change. Online submissions eliminate the risk of losing a mailed proposal to the abyss.

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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. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve? These inputs are discussed in the project description and budget sections of your proposal.

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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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What Makes a Successful Grant Writer?

Grant Training Center

These are learned through experience, various proposal submissions, collaborative efforts with colleagues, and focus and determination. Clear and Concise Communication: Are able to communicate their ideas and proposals clearly and concisely. The end result is a well developed and polished proposal.

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Hard and Fast Proof: The Quest for Demographic Data

Grant Professionals Association

You might be tempted to paste the narrative part into your grant proposal as is!) 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.

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Juicing up Your Federal Grants to Engage Reviewers

Grant Professionals Association

But with proposal narratives that can reach 60+ pages in length, adding creative touches to break up a heavy narrative can make a federal proposal more readable and thus easier for reviewers to assess. The following summarizes ways in which I try to make my proposals stand out. The logic model. My outline?

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Writing About Need so Funders Will Get It

Grant Professionals Association

It is the soul of your proposal, usually the first impression people have of your case, and the way you introduce your work to a funder. Everything should return to your stated need as it sets the tone for the rest of your proposal. And that is before you even get to character counts!

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