Wild Apricot

JUNE 16, 2025

Bookkeeping and reporting : They track how the money is used, keep records and help align spending with your project’s goals and logic model. Disbursing payments : They pay vendors, staff or reimburse expenses according to your project’s budget. All funds go through their bank accounts.

Logic Model

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Clarify what AI can draft (like boilerplate sections or budget rationales) and what must stay human-led (like personal stories or your theory of change). Prepare logic models or theory of change diagrams to demonstrate how your activities lead to visual outcomes. Create internal AI guidelines. Verify everything.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Incorporate visual elements like: Outcome tables Charts that show progress Logic models that map need to impact These tools improve clarity and show funders that your nonprofit grant strategy is grounded in strategy and accountability.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

This includes narratives, budgets, deadlines, and funder history. So when generative AI drafts your need statements and logic model, it’s speaking your language. Efficiency Powered by AI Yes, Notion  AI helps with first-pass drafts, line-item budgets, and formatting. This isn’t theoretical. It’s possible now.

Readiness

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 7, 2025

.** As tech tools emerged in the mid-80s to ‘90s, the NOFOs slowly changed, allowing and sometimes requiring longer narrative sections, as well as attachments like organization charts, maps, logic models, flow diagrams, etc. The final proposal, including the budget narrative, was about 10 single-spaced pages!

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

These might include: 501(c)(3) nonprofit status Specific geographic areas or populations served Minimum or maximum annual operating budgets Years in operation Required match or cost-sharing Audit history or financial documentation Even one missing element can disqualify your proposal, regardless of how compelling your narrative is.

Grant

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 23, 2025

In other, more energetic moments, we might believe that our brains can magically do and focus on multiple programs, multiple drafts, multiple budgets, and multiple logic models at one time. For grant writers, the word can represent a tormenting impossibility at times.

Grant

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.

Logic Model

Candid

MAY 7, 2024

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. These inputs are discussed in the project description and budget sections of your proposal. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve?

Proposal

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 10, 2022

It’s the only reasonable way to conquer that logic model or have a difficult but necessary conversation with a program officer or board member. However, my own most satisfying development as a grant professional has come from examining standard systemic practices and questioning them while taking action to advocate for change.

Logic Model

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 26, 2023

The Rising Demand for AI Skills: Job Opportunities and Earnings A 2020 study reveals that job openings requiring AI or machine-learning expertise will grow by 71% by 2025.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Sound Financial Management: The organization should have sound financial management practices in place, including budgeting, accounting, and reporting for both organization and for its programs and services. Strengthening these areas enhances the organization's ability to plan, implement, and evaluate grant-funded projects effectively.

Grant Readiness

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?”

Indirect Cost

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 25, 2024

Yet, within this staggering number of organizations, the majority struggle to raise substantial funds—over a million organizations annually have operating budgets of less than $50,000. This coupled with 1.54 What does this data mean?

Logic Model