Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

One that centers transparency, flexibility, and truth-telling in your proposals. During our Wednesday Grant Chats, this kept coming up: more funders are actively inviting applicants to tell the whole truth about barriers, community-led solutions, and the systemic conditions that drive need. They require a new posture.

Readiness

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

What Is a Grant Writing Toolkit? 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. Instead of scrambling for details every time, youll have the essentials ready to go. Do you already use a toolkit?

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Scattered Systems: Decision Fatigue and Avoidance Behind every missed deadline or abandoned proposal is something deeper: cognitive overload. The Hub stores, organizes, and seamlessly integrates your calendar, task management, funder data, proposal drafts, templates, and AI-powered support.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

That’s why it’s essential to evaluate grant opportunities carefully before committing your limited energy and resources. Why Saying “No” Is Sometimes the Best Grant Writing Strategy In the nonprofit world, especially during economic uncertainty or funding cuts , there’s often a sense of urgency to pursue every possible grant.

Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And sometimes the things you have outlined or that you have described are not outlined clearly in your budget. And when they look at it side by side, they may say, but wait, they're asking for this other thing in the budget, they didn't even talk about that. And number one step back and evaluate your grant proposals.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

For some reason, whether it be some requirement that they had to be a certain type of organization or a certain budget or serve a certain population, it's like, oh, okay. And then once I finally dug deeper and deeper and deeper, I would come across something that totally disqualified the client. What kind of program?

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Budget Developments and the Debt Ceiling In late June, the Senate narrowly passed its version of a sweeping spending and tax package known among Republicans as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” According to the Congressional Budget Office, the legislation could add $3.3 The White House and Senate Republicans dispute this projection.

Federal Grants

Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Candid offers many resources to support organizations in searching for funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, and standing out among applicants. From the first phase of writing a proposal to actually receiving a check could take six to nine months. Ask yourself if you have the bandwidth to prepare one or more proposals.

Grant Readiness

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. And a budget for it. Develop a system where you’re sending out proposals or letters of inquiry to new foundations on a weekly basis. Important: Invest in donor stewardship and reliable data. Retain staff.

Letter Of Inquiry

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.

Grant Readiness

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Organizational development plays a crucial role in the process of becoming grant-ready by providing the foundation and framework necessary to effectively pursue and manage grant funding. It provides the essential infrastructure, capabilities, and processes needed to become [and stay] grant-ready.

Grant Readiness

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

How do you write a grant and win tons of funding? Preparation, or in the grant writer’s case “Readiness”. Readiness is all about preparing your organization to write a grant proposal and creating a strategy for ensuring you are pursuing the right funding sources to help your organization meet its mission.

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

MARCH 4, 2021

If you’ve ever read any of my other articles you probably already know how much importance I place on being “grant ready”. For those of you who don’t know, I recommend reading up on grant readiness, particularly if you are a newer or smaller nonprofit. You can use my Grant Readiness Toolkit to help you get it done.

SAM

Grant'd

JULY 23, 2020

But take it from us, the solution is so simple that once you realize what it is, accessing that pool of $80b in grant funding will become not only possible and realistic, but also a process that is easily managed and negotiated. It’s to get grants ready! every 6-12 months so that you can maintain your grant readiness.

Grant Readiness

GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2024

FIRST, Are You Indeed Grant-Ready? Assess your grant readiness Assessment take a moment to discover what type of grants you are eligible for. After all, there is no reason to apply for a grant you are not eligible for. GrantWatch provides direct links to request for proposals (RFPs).

Grants

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

For example, a master GRANTS folder might have multiple folders within it, each labeled by the funder name. Then, each of those grant funder folders will have subfolders organized by year. Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. Registration is live!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 23, 2023

So, what should you expect when you hire a grant consultant? Certainly, your mileage will vary depending on your organization’s grant readiness and fundraising goals, as well as the methodology your consultant employs to kick off the work. Second, everyone thinks their organization is grant ready.

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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.

Budget

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 14, 2023

This often leaves only a thirty- to ninety-day window to adjust plans and priorities, identify organizational projects that align with program office goals, and develop a competitive proposal. However, especially for federal grants, it is equally essential to set your organization up for post-award success during the application stage.

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

All the time and effort you put into designing a great project and developing a clear, well-written grant proposal has paid off and you’ve received a notice of award from the funder. Now, it’s time to ensure that you are a great steward of the grant funds that you have received.

GPC

Grant Writer Team

JULY 25, 2024

With a professional team of experienced grant writers, GrantWriterTeam makes researching and applying for grants easy! You need a solid business model and budgeting plan. To get grant ready as a nonprofit, start by clearly defining your mission and goals.

Organizational Budget

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

After more than 28 years in grants and fundraising, I have found that about 20% of grant writing is actual writing. Much of the remaining 80% goes toward wrangling attachments of required documents, hashing out budgets, and designing meaningful goals and objectives.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I’ve written about this before, but creating a standard grant narrative is the best thing you can do to spend less time working on grants and get better results. A standard grant narrative is a generalized grant proposal that you can update and tailor to specific funding opportunities.

Grant Writing

GrantNews

MAY 23, 2024

Overall, capital funding grants provide general operating funds for a business. Moreover, these grants are often mostly unrestricted dollars. Capital funding grants are commonly used to pay for costs the programming budget cannot pay for. What Else Does a Capital Grant Fund? Happy hunting!

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

AI: The Ultimate Sidekick for Nonprofit Work AI can be your sidekick, taking over the tedious bits of grant writing, like research, program design, drafting, and revising proposals. Beyond Grant Writing: How AI Can Transform Your Nonprofit Leadership But AI doesn’t stop at grant writing.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 19, 2023

” Step 4: Drafting Your Proposal When you’re ready to start drafting, use ChatGPT to create a basic structure for your grant proposal. Input prompts related to your proposal, such as “Draft an introduction for a grant proposal focused on environmental conservation,” and let the AI generate a draft.

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Defining Small Nonprofits: Whether a nonprofit or not-for-profit , a charitable organization’s “size” is not determined by its facility, number of staff, or services to the public but by the size of its operating budget. The six-session course focuses on key elements that will prepare a new or small organization for grant readiness.

GPC

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As you’re setting yourself up for long-term success with grants and securing funding for the here and now, I also want to encourage you to think about your plan for learning how to write grants. Most of us weren’t born knowing how to put together a strong grant proposal. It takes time to learn how to write grants.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 7, 2023

This tool enables you to incorporate credible, relevant research into your grant writing, significantly improving the quality of your problem statements and the overall grant proposal. To effectively incorporate research into your statement of need, you can start by asking WebChatGPT your research question.

ChatGPT

Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Understanding the intention and need for a program will strengthen a proposal as well as help an organization identify when mission creep is treading the ethical line. Another grant readiness factor is whether the organization’s financial management practices are able to track and report on the use of funds.

Ethics

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2023

This secret recipe will jump-start your grant writing journey without the years typically required to master the process. Our Secret Recipe Gone are the days of struggling to understand complex grant requirements and the torment of writing to conform to a grant proposal’s strict guidelines.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 30, 2022

But the reality is that it takes a lot more to write successful grants than just knowing where to look for them or having the writing skills to craft a compelling proposal. It elevates one or two actions as quick fixes.

Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 21, 2023

Grant proposals often require an emotional appeal to connect with the reader. In-depth research will always be an essential aspect of grant and technical writing. Cultivating creativity will help you craft unique proposals and documents. Enhance Emotional Intelligence and Empathy AI lacks the human touch.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 7, 2023

Create a Portfolio A professional portfolio is a powerful tool for demonstrating your skills, experience, and success in grant writing. Showcase your well-crafted grant proposals, letters of inquiry, and the successful grants you’ve written.

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But it’s going to be absolutely packed with my best tips, strategies, and hacks for finding, writing, and editing grant proposals that get funded. If you’ve ever wanted a start-to-finish rundown of the grants process, this is it. Now it’s time to start writing your first proposal. It’s important.

Grants

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 21, 2025

Grant writing isnt just about putting together a compelling proposal. Its about proving (on paper and in practice) that your organization is ready to handle funding responsibly and effectively. Most nonprofits arent actually ready. What Does Grant-Ready Really Mean? And the truth? Thats not shade.

Grant Readiness

GrantNews

APRIL 9, 2025

In addition, you’ll improve your chances of success on your next grant application! 5 Grant Writing Mistakes 1. Supporting evidence is a crucial part of your grant application. Funders must verify your proposal before awarding funds. Did You Provide Enough Budget Detail ? A detailed budget is essential.

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