Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

Budget Narrative A standard explanation of costs that can be tweaked for different applications. This is part three of our Writing Grants When Youre the Only One Doing It series. If youve ever felt like youre constantly digging for the same information , this article is for you. What Is a Grant Writing Toolkit?

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

One of the most critical ways to evaluate grant opportunities is to ask whether the funding aligns with your organization’s current activities, not what it might do just to secure a grant. It can be tempting to stretch your programming to match a funder’s interests. Pro tip: Alignment should feel natural.

Grants

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 7, 2025

I don’t know where this trend is going but it seems to me that the era of 50 page proposal narrative (once common among Department of Education proposals) is over. The final proposal, including the budget narrative, was about 10 single-spaced pages! Yes, there were EVs in 1979, but not very good ones.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 28, 2025

Videos Grant Writing Basic s – “Tips for Proofreading Your Next Grant Application” and “Grant Writing: How to Build Credibility with Your Budget Narrative” are just two of the many topics that are covered. That’s why we search government sites for current grants and list them in our database.

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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. What Is a Budget Narrative?

Budget Narrative

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?” I hate collaboration. There, I said it. You better believe it!

Indirect Cost

GrantNews

JANUARY 4, 2024

Tufts, Office of the Vice Provost of Research, Understanding a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA ) Other questions deal with the document specifications, budget, narrative structure and review criteria. Let’s go over each type of announcement and what they mean in more detail. Which FOA Is Right for Your Nonprofit?

Federal Grants

Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

And they frequently study your project budget and look back at the narrative (the main written part of the grant proposal) and the executive summary (the short summary of the proposal and budget that comes first) to see that they are all aligned. Also, use budget narrative—brief explanations—to explain confusing items.

Proposal

Grant Consulting Services

JUNE 29, 2023

One word: budget. In the land of grantmaking, it’s essential to have a budget in place because grantmakers want to know that your financial situation is reasonable and how you plan on spending the money if awarded. Ensure the grant budget is aligned with the orgs strategic objectives. (The Don’t make stuff up.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

Repository/library of supportive resources and tools — include standardized narratives (e.g., project narrative format/content/organization, budget and budget narrative and required attachments). consistent allocation of program staff time in project narrative, staffing plan, and budget justification narrative).

Grant Management

Grant Consulting Services

JULY 31, 2023

In my most recent Grantegy class, I purposely tested the viability of ChatGPT to help create a sample budget and corresponding budget narrative. Nonprofits are investigating new strategies to help meet the changing needs of people in their communities. But does it really? Resources Artificial Intelligence.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 24, 2024

Don’t set a budgeting precedent that leaves your staff overworked and underpaid. Identify effective practices for developing realistic, accurate line-item and narrative budgets and for expressing the relationship between line items and project activities in the budget narrative 4.10. to function.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

A well-prepared budget will instill confidence in your project and boost your chances of being funded. Here are a few tips, drawn from lessons learned: Start Early: Too often, budgets are put together at the last minute after the project design has been finalized, only to realize that the planned activities and outcomes exceed the budget.

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