Budget Finance Grant Readiness 
Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 2, 2025
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. For better or worse, your budget can make or break your chances of funding, despite the quality of the grant narrative itself.
Assel Grant Services
DECEMBER 8, 2024
While board members play an important role in assuring agency finances and grant funds are treated ethically, they are also partially responsible for resource development that is, ensuring their organization has the resources needed to fulfill its mission. Understand the issues that could impact their nonprofit agencys finances (e.g.,
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Grant Writing Made Easy
MAY 20, 2025
Grant Proposal Templates: Standardized responses to common funder questions, like program outcomes, sustainability plans, and partnerships. Financial Information: Latest budgets, audited financial statements, and cost breakdowns. Budget Narrative A standard explanation of costs that can be tweaked for different applications.
Candid
MARCH 25, 2024
General operating support, or unrestricted grants, can be used to meet any organizational need, but those grants are largely the exception, rather than the rule. One of the first things you need to do, then, is to detail your expenses in a budget and determine what is eligible for grant funding.
Blackbaud
MAY 23, 2024
Before agreeing to take on federal funding, your organization should thoroughly understand the financial implications, including how funds will need to be tracked, how staff and contractor time and effort will need to be recorded, what program costs are allowable , and how they will be communicated and tracked with program staff and finance staff.
Grant Professionals Association
JUNE 13, 2023
Is your organization grant-ready? When you’re an early-career grant writer or are building a grants program for the first time, this can be a daunting question; I know that it was for me. When it comes down to it, grant readiness comes from preparation in three main areas: Resources, Collaboration, and Alignment.
Assel Grant Services
OCTOBER 6, 2024
As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.
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