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The #1 Grant Writing Headache? Your Own Team.

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

If you’ve been in the grant-writing game for more than five minutes, you already know the real bottleneck isnt your writing skills. Or convinced the grant wont be funded anyway, so why bother? Or calendar invites and stern reminder emails. And if the grant fails, guess who gets the blame? Or skeptical.

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Grant Writing for Small Nonprofits: How to Do More With Less

Grant Writing Made Easy

Struggling to keep up with grant writing as a team of one, or as part of a small nonprofit where everyone wears multiple hats? That can overwhelm grant writing for small nonprofits, but it doesn’t have to. This is even more imperative when grant writing for small nonprofits. You’re not alone.

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Most Common Grant Proposal Errors (and How to Fix Them)

Grant Writing Made Easy

Include a logic model or visual plan: Use a flowchart or diagram to show how your inputs become outputs, leading to desired outcomes. How to Fix It Start early: Begin your process at least 4–6 weeks before the deadline, and block writing time on your calendar. Check out our guide to overcoming grant writer’s block !

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Nonprofit Grant Strategy: Recalibrate for Year-End Success

Grant Writing Made Easy

Use what you’ve learned to strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy for the rest of 2025. Update Your Grant Calendar An organized, realistic calendar is the backbone of a successful nonprofit grant strategy, especially as you approach the high-stakes Q3 and Q4 deadlines. But that doesn’t mean you can’t win big.

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Philanthropy’s Reckoning Is Here. Is Your Grant Strategy Ready?

Grant Writing Made Easy

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 And while many nonprofits cling to outdated, compliance-focused grant practices, there’s a better way, especially when you equip your strategy with tools built for this moment.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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The Competitive Advantage and Head Start of Pre-planning for Large Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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.

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One Thing Every Nonprofit Must Do to Win Grants in 2022

Think and Ink Grants

Grants are time-consuming, very competitive, and after all the time, money, and energy spent writing grants, there is no guarantee that your nonprofit will be awarded. Some of my clients specifically block time on their calendars for this purpose.