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

Grant Writing Made Easy

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.

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Foundation Grants for Nonprofit Organizations: Your Path to Funding Excellence

Allied Grant Writers

Using a systematic approach can help streamline the search: Research Method Description Online Databases Platforms like GrantStation and Foundation Center provide extensive lists of available grants. Budget A clear, itemized budget outlining how funds will be used efficiently.

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Choosing a Grant Database Based on Your Needs and Budget

Peak Proposals

To answer these questions, below we discuss several types of grant databases and provide an overview of three specific databases— GrantStation , Foundation Directory Online (FDO) , and Instrumentl —to give you a sense of what grant databases can offer. GrantStation and FDO , described below, are two databases that fall into this category.

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Using Data Effectively in Your Grants Strategy Development

Tech Soup

Here at GrantStation, we want your organization to succeed at grantseeking. Also, look to the NTEN Benchmarks X Study and, of course, GrantStation's free State of Grantseeking™ Reports. At GrantStation , we survey nonprofits to help develop new strategies to serve our member organizations. Image: GrantStation.

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Why Grant Research Isn’t as Easy as Saying “Show Me the Money”

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

There are a variety of tools that are available for grant funder research, such as Foundation Directory Online , Instrumentl , GrantStation , GrantWatch , and more. The financial documents will help you learn about whom the funder has provided grants to and their overall budget.

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Jump In Now to the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey

Tech Soup

Ellen Mowrer is business development advisor for GrantStation. both clients and the GrantStation team in marketing, Partner Depot. I’ve spent quite a few years in the space between nonprofits and for-profit businesses, most recently as business development advisor at GrantStation. She works with.

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Building Your Grantseeking Program: Setting Measurable Objectives

Tech Soup

" One resource is the State of Grantseeking™ Report that GrantStation publishes every six months. Does my budget, location, or mission affect my organization's ability to be awarded grants? The answers to those questions vary — sometimes dramatically — by annual budget and mission focus.