Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

The AI Grants Hub™ integrates your core narratives, past proposals, and data. Myth #2: Using AI Will Make Your Proposals Lack Authenticity and Human Empathy Another real fear: “If everyone uses AI, won’t all proposals start to sound the same?” Your narrative and budget templates evolve with every proposal.

Grant Writing

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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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

A Grant Writing Toolkit is a centralized place (digital or physical) where you store commonly used grant content so you can easily pull it into new proposals. Grant Proposal Templates: Standardized responses to common funder questions, like program outcomes, sustainability plans, and partnerships. What Is a Grant Writing Toolkit?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Whether you’re a solo grant writer or part of a small, multitasking team, developing a clear process to evaluate grant opportunities can help you write stronger proposals, avoid burnout, and focus on the funding that truly supports your mission. But in practice, this approach can backfire. If something is ambiguous, don’t guess.

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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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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 Consulting Services

JUNE 29, 2023

Budget narrative Driving the explanation behind the budget is the budget narrative. This narrative will further explain how you arrived at the proposed budget and expenses while expanding on line item details and additional funding sources. The Ultimate Guide to Grant Proposal Budgets.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

Early career experiences supporting corporate responses to competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) opportunities for business contracts provided insights into how to read, understand, and respond to RFPs. Later service as an external reviewer for government agency grant programs provided further insights into grant proposal best practices.

Grant Management

GrantNews

JANUARY 4, 2024

The following are just a few of the many questions you need to ask to help ensure your grant proposal has the best chance of getting the funding you need. Is there an earlier deadline for a letter of intent (LOI) or pre-proposal? Initial Questions: When is the submission deadline? What are the internal deadlines ?

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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. Is the quality of an AI written proposal going to be evaluated differently vs.proposals written by people? AI Technology for Grant Writing: Proposed rules for academic funding.

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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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