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Grant Budgets for Nonprofits: Common Budget Mistakes to Avoid

Grant Writing Made Easy

Let’s be honest: most nonprofit professionals didn’t get into this work for the spreadsheets. But when it comes to grant writing, your budget isn’t just an attachment or requirement to fulfill. Grant budgets are a crucial part of the story you’re telling funders. Grant budgets for nonprofits do more than outline expenses.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Struggling to keep up with grant writing as a team of one, or as part of a small nonprofit where everyone wears multiple hats? Across the nonprofit sector, countless small nonprofits and grassroots organizations do life-changing work with limited staff, tight budgets, and never enough daily hours. You’re not alone.

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Stormy to Calm: Thoughts on Navigating the Federal Grant-Writing Waters After NLFGT

Grant Professionals Association

Aided by Kessler and Cassidys Writing to Win Federal Grants and Writing to Win Federal Grants: The Workbook, participants are guided through the entire federal grant writing process, including developing needs statements, crafting budget narratives, building partnerships, and navigating the submissions process.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Funders review hundreds of applications, and issues such as unclear objectives, vague budgets, or an ineffective statement of need can easily push your proposal to the bottom of the pile. Let’s explore the five most frequent errors nonprofits encounter—and the exact strategies to correct them for stronger, more competitive submissions.

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Developing a nonprofit budget: The basics and best practices

Candid

Building a nonprofit budget can be intimidating, not only for new projects or organizations but for all nonprofits when the fundraising outlook is uncertain. Yet, a challenging environment makes developing a strong, credible budget even more important. Introduction to project budgets, and Creating a Sound Proposal Budget.

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Best practices for a project budget in uncertain times 

Candid

“Uncertainty” seems to be the recurring theme for nonprofits in 2025. In an informal discussion I held recently with a group of nonprofits across Ohio, I heard the following: “We heard that our governmental funding was completely cut.” “We In essence, you include a small contingency plan in the budget.

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Is AI Coming for Your Grant Writing Job?

Grant Writing Made Easy

Myth #3: AI Tools Are Too Technical for Non-Techies and Small Teams We get it—things like “prompt engineering” sound like something that belongs in a tech startup, not a nonprofit office with one barely-working printer and a squeaky desk chair. Even more, AI alone won’t solve disorganized narratives or scattered documents.