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Most Common Grant Proposal Errors (and How to Fix Them)

Grant Writing Made Easy

Alignment builds confidence: A program that logically follows your need statement feels stronger and more convincing. Include a logic model or visual plan: Use a flowchart or diagram to show how your inputs become outputs, leading to desired outcomes. Why It Matters Funders are risk-averse. Data offers credibility.

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Grant Writing for Small Nonprofits: How to Do More With Less

Grant Writing Made Easy

Across the nonprofit sector, countless small nonprofits and grassroots organizations do life-changing work with limited staff, tight budgets, and never enough daily hours. That can overwhelm grant writing for small nonprofits, but it doesn’t have to. Here’s how to maximize your impact when capacity is limited.

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A disturbing trend in Notices of Funding Availability (NOFOs): the incredible shrinking grant proposal

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

.** As tech tools emerged in the mid-80s to ‘90s, the NOFOs slowly changed, allowing and sometimes requiring longer narrative sections, as well as attachments like organization charts, maps, logic models, flow diagrams, etc. The final proposal, including the budget narrative, was about 10 single-spaced pages!

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How to Evaluate Grant Opportunities: When to Say No to a Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

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.

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Collaboration—Love it or Hate it?

Grant Professionals Association

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!