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The #1 Grant Writing Headache? Your Own Team.

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Or calendar invites and stern reminder emails. Or you spend hours slicing their task into smaller pieces, designing cute checklists and templates to make it easier. They guess at the logic model based on what makes sense. Theyre just busy. Or skeptical. Or burned out. You might think the solution is better communication.

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Nonprofit Grant Strategy: Recalibrate for Year-End Success

Grant Writing Made Easy

Elevate your proposals using refreshed templates, updated data insights, and a stronger commitment to equity, ensuring your applications stand out in a crowded grant space. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar. Use what you’ve learned to strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy for the rest of 2025.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Build a Reusable Grant Template Library for Grant Writing Writing every grant proposal from scratch? Building a centralized grant template library is one of the most effective ways to save time and increase consistency. Budget Justifications & Templates: Most grants require breaking down your numbers.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Disconnected calendars, outdated folders, missing attachments, and “Where’s that link again?”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. So when generative AI drafts your need statements and logic model, it’s speaking your language. messages in Slack don’t just waste time.

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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

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.