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Demystifying Grant Attachments: A Complete Guide to Boost Your Funding Success

Millionaire Grant Lady

Each year, the team at Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates prepares and submits hundreds of applications to foundations across the country. If you are preparing grant applications or working with a consultant to submit applications, heres what you need to know about required attachments: Why all the extra stuff?

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In it to Win It: Building the Grants Audit-Planning Team

Grant Professionals Association

Much like athletes, grant professionals must prepare well in advance to perform at their best. Every grant professional will face an audit at some point, whether it’s part of the annual nonprofit tax filing or a formal public grant audit from years past. Have program staff review the documents and ask their own questions.

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Beyond the Award: Why Every Grant Professional Needs Post-Award Management Skills

Grant Professionals Association

Over the last 20+ years, I have been privileged to help hundreds of organizations receive significant grant funding. Many of these grant awards have been large federal grants that advanced an organization both in its mission and its overall capacity. Securing the grant itself is, of course, an achievement.

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Understanding Nonprofit Overhead: Strategies for Transparency and Efficiency in 2025

Blackbaud

Most nonprofit finance teams have been taught to keep their overhead costs buried deep within their financial statements. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised their uniform guidance in 2024, increasing the de minimus (or standard) rate allowed for indirect costs—overhead for federal grants—from 10 to 15%.

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Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

Blackbaud

With the recent federal administration changes, there is a lot of uncertainty in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors. Federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors face shifting priorities, new executive orders, and evolving funding practices. James Spencer, RBW Strategy Consultant, co-authored this blog post.

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Securing a $2.5 Million HUD Grant with Federal Grant Writing Help

Millionaire Grant Lady

With federal grant writing help, our client secured a $2.5 Million HUD grant to address homelessness in HIV population. Every grant writer understands exactly what this means. What does it take to secure funding from a federal grant? Federal grant applications are competitive and complex.

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Introduction to Nonprofit Program Budgets

Grant Writing Made Easy

Indirect Expenses: These include administrative and overhead costs, all the costs of all departments outside of the program department, such as finance, human resources, and development. Remember that grantmakers want you to pay your staff and consultants a fair price, not an extravagant one. Step 1: Adhere to the requirements.