Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Missed details can derail your proposal: Important components—like letters of support or compliance documents—can be overlooked or improperly formatted. How to Fix It Start early: Begin your process at least 4–6 weeks before the deadline, and block writing time on your calendar.

Proposal

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

For example, our team has supported nonprofits with completing a new funder search , writing a single federal grant, or preparing a new grant template for your team to use to complete grant applications. After our quick onboarding process, we could work through their foundation grant calendar, ensuring no deadlines were missed.

Grant Writing

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Suggestions for Actionable Improvements Strengthen communication: Use tools like shared calendars and group chats to keep everyone informed. Documentation and Reporting Comprehensive documentation of the fundraiser ensures that valuable insights and lessons are preserved for future events.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Common project fees include: Writing proposals for new programs: $2,500-$6,000 Creating template grant proposals that work for different funders: $3,000-$6,000 Managing complex federal grants: $7,000-$10,000 Project fees usually come with payment milestones. Federal grants need 20-40 hours of dedicated work.

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Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Document your flexibility, but use the word “suggested” to allow discretion. Make it feel like a letter to your mother, not a cold institutional appeal. 4 Create a Legacy Society ESSENTIAL A Legacy Society is a simple way to honor planned giving donors and build social proof. What small update can I make to our messaging?

Policy

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Don't try to worry about digging through because they are very long tax documents and maybe some of you are tax people. It saves so much headache if you're not used to those types of forms and documents. If you don't know what we're talking about with the 990 just go to Instrumentl's database and use it.

Instrumentl

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And when it's well-documented how to follow the system. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. It might take some time upfront to figure out, okay, what's the best system here, or time to document the steps or figure out what kind of system you need to use. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

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. Why Everyone Needs a Will: It’s Not Just About Money Regardless of your income, age, or family structure, a will is one of the most important legal documents you can create. See additional resources at the end.

Template

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Even the word “planning document” might make you stressed. Fundraising Calendar for 2021. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. You should be able to pick up these templates and start working with them right away.

Calendar

Ann Green's Nonprofit

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I know that might sound impossible, but it will be a whole lot easier if you put together a communications calendar (also known as an editorial calendar). I like the term communications calendar because it emphasizes the importance of communicating with your donors and other supporters all year round.

Calendar

CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A fundraising calendar can help you streamline this process so you can raise more with less effort. It is sometimes hard to keep track of your correspondence with donors when it isnt scheduled or, at the very least, documented. This is where a fundraising calendar comes in handy.

Calendar

Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Fundraising calendars help set your nonprofit up for success for the entire year. A fundraising calendar enables you to keep your goals, campaigns, strategies, and due dates all in one place that your whole team has access to. Another objective you need to define for your fundraising calendar is your awareness goal.

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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. Learn more here.

Logic Model

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a document that strategically organizes all of your fundraising activities over a certain period of time (usually one year). Download Our Free Fundraising Plan & Calendar Template: Why Do You Need a Fundraising Strategy? Download your free nonprofit fundraising and calendar plan here.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Things like conversations with coworkers that last longer than they need to, writing the same email over and over instead of using a template, and meetings that don’t start or end on time can steal time from your day that you can never get back. Time-block your week with an online calendar. Time tracking doesn’t have to be fancy.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. A project charter is a brief, formal document that concisely articulates the essential details of the project, such as its purpose, scope, goals, and contributors. What is a Project Charter?

Software

Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This blog post explores how to create an annual fundraising plan and even provides a helpful annual fundraising plan template to help putting together your fundraising plan easier. Ready to download the template? Download Template. Here you go! What is an annual fundraising plan (also known as a nonprofit strategic plan)?

Fundraising

CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

Building Out Your Content Calendar Consistency is the bedrock of successful social media outreach, and a well-planned fundraising calendar is the key to achieving it. Maria’s content calendar template. Start with a Year Overview One of the best tips Maria provides is to break your calendar down into a year overview.

Media

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This enables all of our users to collaborate county-wide and allows seamless sharing of data (documents, calendaring, events, tasks, internal client referrals, and discussion forums). SharePoint also enables versioning and item retention, so users cannot accidentally delete or overwrite any documents or list items.

Management

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Your plan is a fluid document that can be changed as the situation or needs change. You can grab my simple 1-Page Fundraising Plan template here. Too many people wait for the perfect time, the perfect Board, the perfect staff, the perfect template, or a perfect something else to work on their plan for fundraising.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

JUNE 20, 2020

Some of your questions related to the FOA you may need to direct to the funder, such as whether the funder will accept a certain kind of budget template. Along with other task dates, the date by which you need an answer to this question should be entered into the proposal calendar, which brings us to Step 2.

Proposal

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Saturday mornings work well for most organizations, giving attendees time and space to clear their calendars and their minds and focus. After your initial retreat, expect to meet several more times to work on the document, refining goals and crunching numbers until you get to a final plan that feels just right for your nonprofit.

Strategic Plan

Grant Writing Made Easy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It provides a single platform to manage tasks, documents, goals, and communication, making it an ideal solution for grant writing consultants managing multiple clients and projects simultaneously. Document Storage and Collaboration: With ClickUp, you can store all project-related documents in one place.

Grant Writing

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Marketing software Here are some top marketing software for your nonrpfoit to consider: Constant Contact | Best nonprofit software for email marketing Constant Contact is an email marketing solution equipped with 100+ customizable email templates to help you reach out to your donors.

Software

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Ensure your nonprofit’s DEI efforts are well-documented and highlighted in your grant proposals. Create a Grant Calendar Develop a detailed grant calendar for 2025 that includes application deadlines, reporting requirements, and renewal dates. Showcase how these partnerships enhance your program’s effectiveness and reach.

Grant Writing

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These chatbots can also help you create templates for different types of messages to help you save time. Scheduling is also simplified by virtual assistants because they can access your teams’ calendars to propose optimal meeting times and manage appointments.

AI

Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Some of my clients specifically block time on their calendars for this purpose. Have pre-written materials ready to go when building relationships via email: Create a short email template to send as an introduction and a one-page pre-written document highlighting some quick points regarding your organization.

Grant

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

They are living documents, serving as a “north star” to guide your organization to success. To make it easy, download a copy of our fundraising plan template for guidance. Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Ready, (Re)set, Go!

Fundraising

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Office suites include: Word 2010: Create professional documents with this -processing program. Outlook integrates your email with calendars and contact information. Share Documents with Anyone, Anywhere. More than thirty built-in Starter Solution templates allow even inexperienced users to create databases.

Software

Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

Access your calendars and daily schedule on the road. Create, edit, and review Microsoft Office documents. Apps can be used online (a web app), on mobile devices (a mobile app), or as an add-on to other tools (widgets, plug-ins, templates, and so on). Find directions (probably the app used most on my own smartphone).

Donation

Peak Proposals

MARCH 22, 2022

If you want to include a document or spreadsheet file in your notes, your options include uploading it to OneDrive and inserting a link into your OneNote page, adding the content as an attachment, or embedding the content into the page. Another standard page we created is a proposal calendar page to summarize important milestones.

Onenote

CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Functionality : Some key features include customizable templates, integrations, analytics and reporting, and multilingual support. You can choose from pre-built templates or customize your chatbot’s functionality with the help of their extensive documentation and resources.

AI

Peak Proposals

MAY 22, 2022

If you want to include a document or spreadsheet file in your notes, your options include uploading it to OneDrive and inserting a link into your OneNote page, adding the content as an attachment, or embedding the content into the page. If you have a template section in your notebook, you can copy a template (i.e.,

Onenote

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 3, 2022

One of the reasons why USG funding opportunities are so daunting is that you usually need to consult multiple documents located across the funding agency’s website (and sometimes, several websites) to understand how to prepare and submit your application. We’ve submitted proposals to several U.S. LiquidText also supports multiple formats.

Proposal

Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

This means you can start working on a document on your desktop and then continue where you left off on another computer, laptop, or tablet because Office saves your work in the cloud as you go. Microsoft's Office Web Apps let your staff and volunteers create, edit, and share documents online. About Software Assurance.

Onenote

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 3, 2022

One of the reasons why USG funding opportunities are so daunting is that you usually need to consult multiple documents located across the funding agency’s website (and sometimes, several websites) to understand how to prepare and submit your application. We’ve submitted proposals to several U.S. LiquidText also supports multiple formats.

Proposal

The Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If you’re brand new to grant seeking, you’ll need to understand the different sections and documents that make up a typical proposal. Ideally, your nonprofit already knows the new projects that need funding as part of its broader strategic plan and calendar. Step 2: Review Your Nonprofit’s Project.

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