Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Seek Professional Advice : Consult with a financial expert or accountant to review your budget and ensure accuracy and compliance.

Grant Writing

Get Fully Funded

JULY 30, 2025

If you’re unsure about the best strategy, create a gift acceptance policy and consult with a nonprofit finance advisor to ensure alignment with your organization’s financial strategy and risk tolerance. These typically include treasury bills, short-term CDARs, money market accounts, and mutual funds.

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Provide clear justifications: Briefly explain each line item (e.g., “$3,000 for evaluation consultant at 30 hours @$100/hr”). How to Fix It Start early: Begin your process at least 4–6 weeks before the deadline, and block writing time on your calendar. Ensure accuracy and completeness: Check all math, totals, and formatting.

Proposal

Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 3, 2025

While these statements have not been true of the 2025 calendar year through February, this has been the case for decades, and will likely be the case again. You can schedule a no-obligation consultation call with a member of our team. Typically, over a hundred opportunities come open each week. Sign up for our newsletter.

Government

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Creating a master calendar of donor touches—mail and email communications. Lena Lieb Director of Major Gifts, Children’s Museum of Houston Set Time on Your Calendars for a Post-mortem Not all steps are active fundraising steps. Create a Master View of Your Fundraising Activities Timing is everything.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Many consultants set minimum retainer amounts between $1,500 and $3,000 per month. Their strategic planning has: Funding roadmaps showing the best grants to chase Custom approaches for each funder Grant calendars to track deadlines Long-term clients get 12-month funding strategies focused on grants with the best success odds.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

For so many nonprofit professionals and grant writing consultants, the issue isn’t a lack of intention. And if your grant calendar lives in one place, your tasks in another, your drafts in a hidden folder, and your funder research on sticky notes… of course, your strategy is falling apart. It’s a lack of infrastructure. You get it.

AI

GrantNews

JANUARY 21, 2025

Then, add the grants of interest to your Grant Calendar using the calendar icon the grant detail page. Successful applicants will also receive regular meetings with a technical support consultant. To view a foundations mission statement, grant recipients and more use the Foundation Search tool.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 13, 2025

I’m a grant writer/consultant who has been working with a client who lacks skills in funder cultivation and stewardship, and it’s really hindering them building a strong grants program. The post Funder Cultivation & Stewardship appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. Question: Hello!

Consulting

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

Annual Funding Tracker : Develop a year-round pipeline strategy to ensure your grant calendar is both proactive and intentional. Standard Grant Narrative : A professionally written, AI-ready narrative explicitly tailored to your organization, allowing you to create targeted applications rapidly.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

Consult with finance staff or partners early. This will help you understand the program’s scope and feasibility. Use the budget to clarify program structure. Who will implement the work? What resources are required? What timeline makes sense? They may catch details you’d overlook, such as insurance, equipment depreciation, or staff benefits.

Budget

Bloom Grant Consulting

JUNE 9, 2025

top of page HOME ABOUT OUR TEAM VALUES CLIENTS FAQ SERVICES ONGOING SUPPORT BLOSSOM BUNDLE PROSPECT RESEARCH GRANT CALENDAR BLOG RESOURCES CONTACT More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. All Posts Nonprofit Sustainability Grant Writing Prospect Research Cultivation Work With Us Search Ask Jacquee: What is Cultivation?

Grants Calendar

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

Your grant calendar is connected to your funder history. Today, grant readiness means being able to respond to the right opportunity quickly, strategically, and with a clear sense of who you are and why your work matters. In a system like the AI Grants Hub ™ , grant readiness becomes built-in.

Grant Writing

Gail Perry Group

JULY 9, 2025

That’s why one of the first things we tackle in our Major Gift Officer Bootcamp and our consulting work is portfolio discipline. It’s about managing your energy and your calendar so you can actually close gifts. Or, they are dealing with overstuffed portfolios full of suspects, not true gift prospects.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Why Most Grant Writing Practices Have Stalled Many nonprofits and even consultants are still writing grants like it’s 2005. Disconnected calendars, outdated folders, missing attachments, and “Where’s that link again?” Fluid Strategy : You don’t treat your funding calendar like a rigid checklist. It may cost you funding.

Readiness

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

30 We dont need consultants. Donors dont remember your calendar. Try saying that to payroll or lets see how far that gets you on rent day Delusion No. 29 Our cause sells itself. Nothing sells itself. Not even Girl Scout cookies. Delusion No. You also dont need experience, strategy, or results. Apparently. Delusion No. Delusion No.

SAM

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

In other words, the very constituents most nonprofits court through email acquisition, social media campaigns and peer-to-peer events departed in large numbers during the first quarter — an issue that researchers noted is common at the onset of each calendar year. year over year. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

In other words, these are folks who are potentially good fit funders for you to shortlist and start thinking about your six to 12-month relationship building strategy as you are starting to build out the empty spots near grants calendar where you may have more opportunities to build longer term relationships. Try 14-days free No items found.

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Strategic Grants

MARCH 25, 2025

As always, for our Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS) subscribers, your calendar will be updated by our Research Team with any new or updated funding opportunities relevant to your sector and you will receive an automatic email alert. Our round-up is below, plus links to additional budget resources. Find out more about Team SG here.

Budget

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Our fundraising team is already including more consultation time with every GiveSmart contract to best support our partners. The unmatched networking opportunities with peers, industry leaders, and vendor partners are reason enough to add this event in the Emerald City to your calendar. Hearing from NASA astronaut Jos M.

Federal Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. Nicole was asking: she's a consultant, and she was asking if she should create multiple accounts per client, or if you can have multiple missions under one account. So we have some consultants who will have their non-profits create their own accounts.

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Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Mark your calendars! bbcon is coming to Philadelphia October 6–8! From admissions directors to technologists, business officers to advancement experts, this event brings together K–12 peers eager to exchange ideas , elevate practices, and connect with colleagues from schools across North America.

Education

NonProfit PRO

JULY 28, 2025

Native live streaming, external calendar syncing, and new integrations with Microsoft 365 and Teams further simplify board workflows across dispersed teams. Great governance powers great missions," said Jeff Middlesworth, CEO of Boardable. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Government

Planned Giving

JULY 28, 2025

August may be “Make a Will Month,” but let’s be honest—your legacy deserves more than a single square on the calendar. Laws vary by state, so consult your state’s specific requirements or an attorney for guidance on your situation. That’s why we’re turning it into Make a Will Year. Because planning your future shouldn’t be seasonal.

Template

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How could hiring a grant consultant help your organization meet its funding goals? If the cost of hiring a full-time grant writer is a prohibiting factor, you could consider hiring a grant consultant. Grant consultants tailor service packages to fit your organization’s needs and budget. What does a full-time grant writer cost?

Consulting

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 12, 2024

As I was watching the attacks that happen in Tetris 99, automatically adding additional rows to clear when your board is ALREADY very full, reminded me a lot of what it feels like when an unexpected grant opportunity pops up when your organization already has a very full grant calendar. What unique solutions have you tried? Comment below!

Grants Calendar

Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Seattle, Washington: Catalyst Consultant Orientation. Portland, Oregon: PDXTech4Good Summer Social. Thursday, July 9, 2015.

Calendar

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Create a proven communications calendar. You’ll learn the importance of Year-End, get inspired with different campaign and marketing ideas, learn how to set goals, create a communications calendar, get donor matches, acquire more major donors, engage your community, create a donor experience that shines and more!

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 16, 2023

Developing and Maintaining a Grant Calendar Grant writing can be a time-consuming process, and it’s essential to stay organized. Successful grant writers develop a grant calendar that outlines their daily and weekly tasks. You can use our approach to researching grants and creating a grant calendar with our Grant Research Guidebook.)

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Fundly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

10+ Top Fundraising Consulting Firms: Find the Best Partner! Similarly, when your nonprofit organization has a problem it cant solve on its own, your best bet is to turn to a nonprofit consulting firm! But one of the most common types of consulting nonprofits seek is fundraising consulting.

Consulting

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Don’t let this term scare you.

Media

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For instance, a simple daily calendar listing the work I need to accomplish gets the job done. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 5 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such. See if it works and go from there with other tools.

Grant

Strategic Grants

MARCH 14, 2024

116 people, from across Australia and from various organisations responded to our survey with approximately 46% of the respondents were funders, 40% were not-for-profits and the remaining comprised of professional advisers, consultants and others. Find out more about our grants database GEMS, and sign up for your free demo, here.

Grants Calendar

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Create a calendar of Asks. And there is nothing wrong with using a paper desk calendar, if that’s your jam.

Fundraising

Joe Garecht Fundraising

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The Fundraising Ask Calendar. We’ve developed what I call “The Fundraising Ask Calendar” to use when working with non-profits to figure out the right cadence for making asks. This calendar breaks the fundraising year down into four distinct fundraising periods: Early Spring Fundraising: February – Mid-April.

Calendar

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Download Our Free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar. Creating a comprehensive calendar will keep you organized this year-end so that you can focus on bringing in donations! Download the free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar: 2. Free #GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising Consultation. In 2020, donors gave over $2.47

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

Part of that education is teaching them about a carefully crafted grant calendar that only includes grants you are (1) eligible to apply for and (2) competitive enough to be considered for selection. This is how a curated calendar helps – you have a game plan for the year. If not, how much time can you dedicate to making that happen?

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