Candid

JULY 29, 2025

How do you calculate the correct costs for a project and follow best practices for budgeting if there’s no certainty about sources of income and anticipated expenses? How do you use your project budget to demonstrate credibility with grantmakers ? In essence, you include a small contingency plan in the budget.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2025

Yet, a challenging environment makes developing a strong, credible budget even more important. Whether you’re just getting started or putting the final touches on your grant proposal, the resources below can help you refine your budget. The good news is that budgets arent as complicated as most people fear, she writes.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 7, 2025

This post could lead to a 2025 sequel: The Incredible Shrinking Grant Proposal. Faithful readers also know that I started writing grant proposals shortly after the last Ice Age ended. Case in point: when S + A started in 1993 and began writing SAMHSA proposals, the narrative max was usually 25 single-spaced pages.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

The pressure to pursue every funding opportunity can feel overwhelming, especially in today’s environment of shrinking public resources and steep competition for private grants. But here’s the truth: not all grants are worth your time. Use this checklist to evaluate grant opportunities effectively and make informed decisions.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 28, 2025

What do you need to do to get government grants? Accessing government grants implies the likelihood that there will be a lot of red tape. v , there are a variety of web links to help you learn about – and apply for – government grants. Good question! At grants.go At grants.go

Government

Grants.gov

JULY 9, 2019

Need statements , program narratives, and discussions of impact aren’t the only parts of a federal grant application that require the touch of a good writer. The budget narrative – sometimes called the budget justification or budget detail – can also benefit from a skilled wordsmith.

Budget Narrative

Instrumentl

AUGUST 11, 2023

Curious what a budget narrative is? In this post, we explore what budget narratives are, how to write a good narrative, and what a budget narrative should include. We even dig into common strengths and mistakes people make when preparing budget narratives.

Budget Narrative

Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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GrantNews

JANUARY 4, 2024

Due to the importance of federal grants, GrantWatch provides a special search tab with close to 300 Federal Grant listings! Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Defined To define: FOAs are official notices used by federal agencies to publicly advertise available federal grant funds. Which FOA Is Right for Your Nonprofit?

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. But, does QA/QI also have a place in a nonprofit organization’s successful grants management strategy? Two different kinds of experiences supported this author’s development as a grant professional.

Grant Management

Grant Consulting Services

JUNE 29, 2023

A well-thought-out budget will set you up to launch your project with an anchoring financial plan, making project management so much easier. And, when it comes time to report on your grant activities, you will have already established funding categories and expenses (Instrumentl, 2023). The Ultimate Guide to Grant Proposal Budgets.

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Grant Consulting Services

JULY 31, 2023

Grants & AI: The New Normal New technological advances can be awe inspiring. One of the most recent technological advances is being discussed to potentially assist the grant community to accomplish objectives faster. Grant professionals using AI should try to determine if using AI is part of their organizational strategy.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

But long before this impact occurs, when the grant is still just an idea, the grant writer is trying to wrangle three or four other non-profits to all work together on this “collaborative project.” Has there been a grant or two that we ended up passing on because the group could not agree on splitting the funding?

Indirect Cost

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 24, 2024

AGS grant professionals have seen many local and national funding institutions examine their collective impact and shift to increasing operational and unrestricted grant practices. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. The conversation continues to shift.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

Budgets always change and formulas will allow you to make modifications much faster, facilitate collaboration, and ensure that all related costs and totals stay correct as you amend specific line items. Formulas also make it much easier to write your budget narrative as you have detailed calculations for all your line items.

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