Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

The AI Grants Hub™ integrates your core narratives, past proposals, and data. Myth #2: Using AI Will Make Your Proposals Lack Authenticity and Human Empathy Another real fear: “If everyone uses AI, won’t all proposals start to sound the same?” Your narrative and budget templates evolve with every proposal.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

Our vision was clear: create an all-in-one digital workspace that eliminates burnout, saves precious time, and leverages the powerful capabilities of AI grant writing tools. We carefully built a curated AI Prompt Library and trained a custom AI Assistant specifically for nonprofit grant writers.

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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? Why Starting From Scratch Hurts Your Grant Writing Constantly writing grants from scratch is more than tedious; it actively contributes to burnout and cognitive overload.

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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. If you’re a grant writing consultant, it’s buying you a one-way ticket to Grant Writer Burnout Land — a place you definitely don’t want to visit. It’s not that you don’t care.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

One that centers transparency, flexibility, and truth-telling in your proposals. we end up with technically correct proposals, but spiritually vacant. And when your process is scattered, your proposals follow suit. These shifts call for more than a new vocabulary. They require a new posture. It’s not that you’re disorganized.

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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? Author Mary Diegert shares nonprofit grant proposal budgeting tips, and a road map for overcoming the challenges of calculating the revenue and expense numbers that will populate your one-page budget.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Whether you’re a solo grant writer or part of a small, multitasking team, developing a clear process to evaluate grant opportunities can help you write stronger proposals, avoid burnout, and focus on the funding that truly supports your mission. But in practice, this approach can backfire. If something is ambiguous, don’t guess.

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2025

Nonprofits are facing ever-increasing challenges in obtaining financial capital, with reports of declines in individual donors , fundraising challenges , and proposed government spending cuts. Social capital is also often a factor in securing invitations to submit grant proposals or work on initiatives.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If you don’t plan for time commitment and keep an eye on burnout, you run the risk of losing significant ground trying to implement new technology. Being able to describe the why behind the proposed change is especially important if you’re leading a small shop. How does it impact your organization’s mission?

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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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Candid

JUNE 10, 2024

Beyond providing instructions for completing and submitting the form, consider offering additional guidance such as proposal examples, file-naming conventions, FAQs, and how-to videos. Diversify and train the reviewer pool. Moreover, it keeps the focus on the content of the application rather than the background of the applicant.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals and Perfect Phrases for Fundraising by Beverly Browning. The Idealist’s Survival Kit : 75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout by Alessandra Pigni. These classics will help you find the right words for every fundraising situation. The Little Book of… series by Eric Hanberg.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 12, 2010

But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. Allocate for training. By the same token, in nearly every nonprofit position that I have held, I have paid out of pocket for books and training (for shame!). BILL OWENS. Learn how to delegate. BILL BRADLEY. CALVIN COOLIDGE. Give him a chance.

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GiveSmart

AUGUST 12, 2024

Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. By supporting each other, development and marketing team members can avoid harmful, unnecessary stress that can lead to burnout. Host yearly meetings where the teams can share and update their materials. Request a demo today.

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GiveSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. By supporting each other, development and marketing team members can avoid harmful, unnecessary stress that can lead to burnout. Host yearly meetings where the teams can share and update their materials. Request a demo today.

Retainer

Assel Grant Services

MAY 26, 2024

When highly qualified, high-achieving professionals question their value, competence, or adequacy to successfully perform work that they are 100% capable of performing, it leads to self-doubt, negative self-image, burnout, and workplace toxicity. Did you hit “submit” on the grant proposal that has been the bane of your existence for weeks?

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

Unfortunately, an undisputable trend these days is burnout. So, in this blog, I’m leveraging my PhD in Psychology to share a bit about what burnout is, why it seems to be everywhere in the nonprofit world, and what organizations, leaders, and individuals can do about it. workers reported experiencing burnout symptoms this year.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 24, 2024

Provide employees with the necessary tools and training to use AI effectively and responsibly. Finally, check your DEI-related training to ensure that it is inclusive, covers a variety of identities and experiences, cautions leaders against inadvertent discrimination, and has a positive tone that does not blame or shame.

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Center for Major Gifts

MAY 22, 2025

Earn certifications online and sign up for training seminars at work. Star employees know how to prevent burnout. Propose strategies for overcoming setbacks rather than casting blame. Read books and subscribe to publications in your field. Talk with thought leaders and mentors with the expertise you can learn from.

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