Just Write Grants

JULY 16, 2025

Get your nonprofit ready for fall grant season! Learn how to build a grant calendar, create prep checklists, avoid burnout, and craft powerful storytelling to secure more funding.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 8, 2025

Too many grant writers waste their lives glued to pointless webinars, fumbling through endless newsletters, orworse of allattending meetings where program officers drone on like its their job to bore you. These folks cover more ground than you ever couldand they care deeply about winning grant money. Thats a fast track to burnout.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed juggling grant deadlines, endless document requests, and repetitive tasks, you’re not alone. Nonprofit grantseeking, especially for grassroots teams or solo grant writers, often feels like an infinite cycle of scrambling and stress. The best part?

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Even seasoned grant writers make grant proposal errors, but small changes can be the difference between a funded project and a missed opportunity. Most of these common grant proposal errors are fixable. Most of these common grant proposal errors are fixable. Check out our guide to overcoming grant writer’s block !

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2025

Grant writer burnout is a widespread issue affecting nonprofit professionals worldwide. Burnout goes beyond mere tiredness. But what’s the single most significant contributor to this burnout, and more importantly, how can you effectively overcome it? This cycle leads directly to cognitive overload.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

We’re officially halfway through 2025, and your nonprofit grant strategy deserves a strategic boost if you want to finish the year on a high note. This mid-year check-in is your opportunity to: Strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy by zeroing in on grants with the highest alignment and funding potential.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

Im the first full-time grant professional my organization has ever had. I started consulting part-time and slowly took on grant writing and management work. I was too busy firing off last-minute applications, tracking down signatures, and frantically submitting grant reports. Every single day brought an urgent deadline.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 21, 2025

Have you ever stared blankly at your computer screen, feeling overwhelmed and frustrated by the thought of writing yet another grant proposal completely from scratch? If you’re a grant writer or nonprofit leader, you likely know this scenario all too well. Each new grant opportunity brings excitement and hope.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

If your grant strategy feels more chaotic than coordinated, you’re in the right place. For so many nonprofit professionals and grant writing consultants, the issue isn’t a lack of intention. This is especially true for those on small teams or managing grants alongside a dozen other responsibilities. It’s exhausting.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Ever feel like philanthropy is entering a new era, but your grant writing process is stuck in 2005? And while many nonprofits cling to outdated, compliance-focused grant practices, there’s a better way, especially when you equip your strategy with tools built for this moment. You’re not imagining it. Let’s dive in.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? Fundraising & Grants Is it a pleasure to support your nonprofit or a hassle? Discover three ways your CFO can help your nonprofit through the grant application process.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In this article, Fine and Kanter warn against overuse of AI tools merely to drive efficiency and productivity, which can increase staff workloads and burnout, reduce human interaction, damage workplace culture, and lead to high turnover. Where can fundraisers and grant writers read more about using AI technology?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

The pressure to pursue every funding opportunity can feel overwhelming, especially in today’s environment of shrinking public resources and steep competition for private grants. But here’s the truth: not all grants are worth your time. Use this checklist to evaluate grant opportunities effectively and make informed decisions.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Once upon a time, in a cubicle far, far away, I saw an announcement for a senior grant writing position at a national organization. Under the qualifications heading, it stated that they were looking for a grant writer who never made a mistake—that perfection was the goal for every grant submitted. Then, I read further.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 12, 2024

This is the fourth of a six-part series on 2024 grant predictions. In this series, Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates are sharing our insights into foundation giving. There is an important part of the puzzle that this equation omits—the grant writer. Qualified grant writers are in short supply, though.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A grant writer is vital for organizational growth, but hiring a full-time grant writer is not always the best fit. Grant funding is an essential part of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. Some nonprofits make grant writing a small part of someone’s job description. Read our article to learn more.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yes, I have worked as a solo grant professional within a larger organization and as a lone grant consultant, working from home with no official colleagues to speak of. They are the ones who will step in and help edit your grant because even if they don’t know the world of grants, they are a grammar queen.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Actually, burnout has been around for a long while, recognized in the healthcare and social service industries. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes burnout as an occupational phenomenon (though it’s not recognized as a medical condition). That’s another buzzword like quiet quitting or hustle culture , right?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As grant professionals, we’re constantly focused on deadlines, applications, and making a difference for the causes we care about. Our team has had an ongoing focus on overall wellness, mental health, and mindfulness, given that our work as grant professionals is very sedentary and has a high rate of burnout.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

Every day is a new challenge, a new grant to write, a new initiative to launch. Rebellion Against Burnout: Rest as a Revolutionary Act Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry isn’t just about catching some Zs. I’d love to rest, but who’s going to write all those grants?”

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 5, 2022

When I founded my grant writing consultancy back in 2015, I knew that I wanted to serve the small nonprofits that make a big impact in our communities. They’re tired, often close to burnout. That’s the whole reason I got into teaching grant writing online – this is a system that needs to go. Register today ?.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Article In Brief: The Problem: The work grant professionals do is often not understood or comes with unrealistic expectations. The gap creates a mismatch between agency and staff and leads to burnout and turnover, both costly for nonprofits. The Context: Grants are the lifeblood for many nonprofits.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Hiring a grant writer is one of the most important decisions a nonprofit can make. This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Instead, many organizations rely on grant dollars to fund a significant portion of their budget.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

You won’t get the grant if you don’t apply.”. . Just write the grant.”. . “I I know someone who got the grant for this exact equipment, so we should go for it.”. . As a grant professional, it can be tempting to write every grant that comes across your desk, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 27, 2022

There are some grant writing experts and instructors who believe that the key to getting grant funding is to… …Do more. Taking this frantic approach is a recipe for burnout. In my grant writing consulting work, I take an entirely different approach. …Go faster. …Work harder.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As we all begin planning for 2023, I want you to pause for a moment and consider how more grant funding could change your day-to-day nonprofit operations. When I hear from Grant Writing Made Easy students about their grant wins, they invariably share what a difference that money makes in their day-to-day operations.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dear Experienced Grant Writer: . I have four years experience in grants and I joined a new company where the expectations for completing a proposal are a bit unrealistic. I have similar expectations for private/foundation grants, completing most of these proposals for a 2 or 4 year project period in 2-4 weeks.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 13, 2022

In September 2020 I penned an article entitled Battling Burnout as a Grant Professional where I shared several resources to help overcome the struggle. More than avoiding burnout, I want to continue to love this career of ours, and sometimes that means saying no to things, even if I’d love to do it. It was a lot, all at once.

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Just Write Grants

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Amidst the chaotic— yet remarkably rewarding— landscape of nonprofit initiatives, grant writing is the unsung hero. If your days are a blur of never-ending tasks or grant applications seem like unsolvable puzzles, it may be time to call in support. Grant Jargon Feels Like Greek The complex language of grants can be daunting.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Myth #1: You’re Not Qualified If you have written at least one grant, then you are absolutely qualified to give advice to others! Perhaps someone didn’t get a huge grant they were working on, and they need to hear that sometimes “no” simply means “not right now.” Myth #4: You Have No Insightful Knowledge to Offer Grant burnout is REAL.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Maybe you find that the first step in a big project – like starting a new grant application – is really hard, but the next time you needed to work on it, it was easy to get going. Dive into our “ Write Your Grant in One Hour Using AI ” course.

Management

Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

I have witnessed firsthand in our community the high turnover rates, burnout, and complete undervaluing of nonprofit employees. Individually, the staff also mentioned wanting to learn about grant writing, social media, data analytics, etc., So why isn’t equitable compensation the norm?

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 16, 2025

Grant writing is an essential part of nonprofit funding, but keeping track of multiple proposal deadlines can quickly become overwhelming. Whether you're applying for a single grant or juggling several at once, staying organized and on schedule is key to your success. Trello , Asana ) to set reminders for each deadline.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 9, 2025

Still, many nonprofit professionals, specifically my fellow grant pros, have probably felt these feelings in the last two or three months, even if you have never felt them before. So, the simplest practice I'm engaging in is making sure I'm getting up from my desk several times a day to avoid burnout. Take care of yourself, friends.

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