Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

Across the nonprofit sector, countless small nonprofits and grassroots organizations do life-changing work with limited staff, tight budgets, and never enough daily hours. Instead, seek out funders who explicitly welcome first-time applicants, smaller budgets , or grassroots initiatives. You’re not alone. Start local. and availability.

Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints. A nonprofit can make better budget decisions for grant writing services by knowing these payment models. This setup helps everyone – organizations can budget exactly, while writers get rewarded for working efficiently.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Update Your Grant Calendar An organized, realistic calendar is the backbone of a successful nonprofit grant strategy, especially as you approach the high-stakes Q3 and Q4 deadlines. Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Spend some time to update and refresh your toolkit of grant templates and answers to commonly asked questions as well as your organization's supporting documents. Prepare to request budget or timeline revisions as needed. A Plan for 2025 What is on your calendar as you look forward to the new year?

GPCI

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Quantify results: Use metrics like satisfaction scores, participation rates, and budget comparisons to identify patterns. Did expenses exceed the budget, or was participant engagement lower than expected? Challenges faced: Document specific issues and how they weremanaged.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Scattered deadlines, disjointed documents, and disconnected systems make it nearly impossible to stay on top of funding opportunities strategically. And if your grant calendar lives in one place, your tasks in another, your drafts in a hidden folder, and your funder research on sticky notes… of course, your strategy is falling apart.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

In the AI Grants Hub™ , everything is already built: your organizational documents are linked, your proposal templates are searchable, and your writing assistant already knows your tone and funder history. Even more, AI alone won’t solve disorganized narratives or scattered documents. It documents your prompt usage and edits.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Implementing fund accounting software with subfund capabilities can help your team avoid common nonprofit audit mistakes by streamlining grants management, documentation management, and other key processes. The auditor will need recent tax documents, payroll details, annual financial statements, among other documentation.

Finance

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

A grant consultant works for you based on your organizations needs and your budget to optimize the grant funding process. After our quick onboarding process, we could work through their foundation grant calendar, ensuring no deadlines were missed. The MGL team brings speed and strategy to the table.

Grant Writing

Grant Writer Team

JUNE 12, 2025

Using 990s to Align Your Cause with a Funder’s Mission Grant writers ensure eligibility requirements are fully met and documentation is well-organized, preventing costly delays. Add your grant to your Grants Calendar to keep track of your grant applications.

Applicant

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

This guide offers the most practical, scalable approach to launching a planned giving programeven if you’re a small nonprofit with limited staff and budget. Document your flexibility, but use the word “suggested” to allow discretion. And it’s never too early to start. Who did I forget to thank?

Policy

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Sponsors may have concerns, budget limitations, or other commitments. Here are some common objections and how to addressthem: We Already Have a Charitable Commitment ThisYear If a sponsor has already allocated their charity budget elsewhere, offer a smaller-scale involvement.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Don't try to worry about digging through because they are very long tax documents and maybe some of you are tax people. It saves so much headache if you're not used to those types of forms and documents. And sometimes the things you have outlined or that you have described are not outlined clearly in your budget.

Instrumentl

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And when it's well-documented how to follow the system. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. It might take some time upfront to figure out, okay, what's the best system here, or time to document the steps or figure out what kind of system you need to use. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

August may be “Make a Will Month,” but let’s be honest—your legacy deserves more than a single square on the calendar. Why Everyone Needs a Will: It’s Not Just About Money Regardless of your income, age, or family structure, a will is one of the most important legal documents you can create. See additional resources at the end.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Even the word “planning document” might make you stressed. Fundraising Calendar for 2021. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template. Creating a Fundraising Plan.

Calendar

CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A fundraising calendar can help you streamline this process so you can raise more with less effort. It is sometimes hard to keep track of your correspondence with donors when it isnt scheduled or, at the very least, documented. This is where a fundraising calendar comes in handy.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. Without a budget, you can find yourself in deep water, fast, with more money going out than coming in.

Budget

Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Fundraising calendars help set your nonprofit up for success for the entire year. A fundraising calendar enables you to keep your goals, campaigns, strategies, and due dates all in one place that your whole team has access to. Another objective you need to define for your fundraising calendar is your awareness goal.

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The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 14, 2025

If youre just getting started with nonprofit accounting, one of the most straightforward entry points is to learn about some of the key documents involved in this process. Your nonprofit might have to create several different types of budgets depending on its activities. Lets walk through four types that youll see frequently together.

Liability

AmpliFund

APRIL 30, 2024

Improves Data Centralization Many grant managers are still having to manage their programs with spreadsheets, email, calendars, document storage, and other disparate systems (or even printed materials). You check your email, sort through spreadsheets, rifle through Word documents, but no luck.

Grant Management Software

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Use a spreadsheet to document all fundraising endeavors, assessing expenses, benefits, and key details for each. When outlining each fundraiser, use a fundraising calendar to maintain a balance—ensuring enough activities to meet budgetary needs without overstretching your resources.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. A project charter is a brief, formal document that concisely articulates the essential details of the project, such as its purpose, scope, goals, and contributors. Are there budget requirements?

Software

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a document that strategically organizes all of your fundraising activities over a certain period of time (usually one year). Download Our Free Fundraising Plan & Calendar Template: Why Do You Need a Fundraising Strategy? What is a Nonprofit Fundraising Plan? Will new staff be brought on?

Fundraising

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2022

Include Monthly Giving On Your Content Calendar. The easiest way to do so is to create a detailed content calendar. Content calendars will help you plan and execute communications about your campaigns. You can grow your monthly giving program by including it as a recurring topic on your content calendar.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The annual fundraising plan is a document detailing the fundraising plans for the entirety of the upcoming year. There is no standard for how this document looks, but a good rule of thumb is to make it as detailed as possible. Take a look at: Technology Volunteers Board Partnerships Staff Current budget. Set SMART goals.

Fundraising

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. As you develop or receive documents, they can be saved in folders accordingly for easy access. Name and save documents consistently. Use an Outlook or Google calendar for due dates and deadlines.

GPC

GrantNews

JANUARY 16, 2024

Unrealistic Budget: The higher the funding amount, the more stringent the rules. Missing Items: Have all documentation ready and attached before you submit. GrantWatch offers a Personalized Grants Calendar that helps you easily keep track and monitor your grants. Format Guidelines: Always follow the funder’s guidelines.

Applicant

Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

You’ll need detailed lists of expenses and revenue when it comes time for budgeting for the next year. Creating and documenting procedures may seem kind of silly when it’s just you, but again, putting these into place NOW makes them part of your organization’s operations and will save you from lots of headaches later.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The order in which our team recommends you approach pre-planning is to create drafts (not finalized, not set in stone, but working documents that are a starting point for the real application) of the three following elements: Logic model – A draft of the key elements of your program/project design. Learn more here.

Logic Model

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Raising the money you need to fully fund your budget doesn’t happen by accident. Your plan is a fluid document that can be changed as the situation or needs change. Make an effort to try a few new approaches every year with a goal of working as efficiently as possible to fully fund your budget. This will get you started.

Fundraising

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

MARCH 4, 2021

If your organization is grant-ready and you and your colleagues/leadership are supportive of the time and effort needed to write a federal grant, then the next step is to carve out some time in your calendar to work on this. Gather program/project information, budgets, memorandums of understanding, support materials, etc.

SAM

Peak Proposals

JUNE 20, 2020

There are three key phases to the typical proposal development process: the planning phase, the writing and budget preparation phase, and the assembly and submission phase. Do you need a dedicated budget person? Every part of the proposal process needs to be associated with a milestone, and every milestone needs to go on the calendar.

Proposal

AmpliFund

JUNE 12, 2023

When you don’t have an effective strategy in place to manage and store your grant data and documents, it is easy to make mistakes. By creating a standard process to run reports for yourself once a quarter, or even once a month - you can fix inconsistencies between your budget and expenses before they get out of hand.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2010

However, prior to joining TechSoup's staff, I was the accidental techie over many years at three different, small-budgeted nonprofits where technology maintenance wasn't a line item on the budget — not to mention any tech advancements, IT positions, or budgetary investment in new media technologies.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It's because they have smaller budgets. Those smaller budgets translate to smaller staff sizes or heavier reliance on volunteers for all facets of program management, which result in less consistency in grantseeking. will help you prepare the basic documents needed to write compelling letters of inquiry and grant proposals.

Grantstation

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Grant management requires keeping track of multiple moving parts, including deadlines, points of contact, unique application requirements, financial reports, and other documents that vary by grant. . Grant calendars allow teams to visualize their grant applications’ timelines and ensure they have a sustainable plan for the year.

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