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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Include a logic model or visual plan: Use a flowchart or diagram to show how your inputs become outputs, leading to desired outcomes. Pro Tip: Use a separate budget narrative page to explain your numbers. If allowed, include both direct and indirect costs.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Still, they can often take on a specific piece, like reviewing a logic model, writing a program summary, or proofreading a budget narrative. Break the process into bite-sized pieces. Not everyone has time to read a full grant proposal. Pro Tip: Maintain a “living” list of “grant helpers”. and availability.

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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

Example: If a $5,000 grant requires a full proposal, logic model, budget narrative, letters of support, and quarterly reports, but you could apply for a $50,000 grant with a similar application structure, the higher-value grant is a much better investment of your time. Is the grant renewable or one-time only?

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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?”