Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 15, 2025

Second , you send a letter of inquiry (LOI) to each foundation that seems like a good fit (or submit a full proposal if the foundation prefers). Fourth , you send a full proposal to any foundation that invites you to do so in response to your LOI. Fifth , you follow up on each proposal with more calls and emails.

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Capital Campaign Pro

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

AI has quickly become a helpful resource for nonprofits, assisting with data analysis, drafting proposals, and generating fundraising messages. While these benefits can streamline processes, AI can’t replace the judgment and experience that human consultants offer during a capital campaign.

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Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Writing grants requires organizations to analyze their audience, gather data, build compelling stories, and submit polished proposals. This makes becoming skilled at proposal writing significant. A strong grant proposal has sections about the organization’s background, project details, story, budget, and ways to measure success.

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 9, 2025

To stand out in the competitive grant landscape of 2025, aligning your proposals with your organizations strategic goals is not just advisableits essential. Heres how you can ensure your grant proposals hit the mark. This review will provide the foundation for crafting grant proposals that align seamlessly with your priorities.

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The Grantsmanship Center

APRIL 9, 2025

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking When writing a grant proposal, assume the reader doesnt know much about your community or the challenges and problems your organization is addressing. Context is information that gives the reader a frame of reference for concepts in the rest of the proposal.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

AUGUST 23, 2024

To find the best fit, sometimes it can be beneficial to hire a grant consultant to identify opportunities and suggest funding requests. Winning Grant Proposals: Nonprofits Know Location-Specific Needs Funders may indicate strong interest in one highly specific geographical area. Ready to Pursue Grant Funding?

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GrantNews

JANUARY 29, 2025

Be Compelling Make your application stand out by presenting a strong, credible case: Include accurate, factual data to support your proposal. Consult key stakeholders and represent their perspectives. Keep your proposal focused and to the point by: Avoiding unnecessary details. So, what are the 3 Cs of grant writing?

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The clarity, organization, and persuasive elements of a proposal can significantly influence decision-makers. Well-articulated grant proposals demonstrate an applicant’s understanding of the project’s goals, budget implications, and anticipated impact. Enhanced Project Viability Well-structured projects seem more feasible.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 9, 2025

At DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, we try to live without these expletives in most cases: “some” (of) “a little,” “somewhat,” etc. The post Character Limit Alert: Words That Your Proposal Probably Doesn’t Need appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

Share what youve learned with stakeholders Once youve researched and analyzed your peer organizations revenue mixes, its time to translate these insights into a proposed funding strategy for your own organization. A useful early step is to look at what peer organizations are doing.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While nonprofits often wait to assess impact after funding is secured, evaluating impact potential before submitting a grant proposal can significantly strengthen your application. Here’s how nonprofits can measure and communicate impact and ROI effectively before they submit a proposal. cost per individual served).

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

Our team at DH Leonard Consulting is always trying to think of new ways to “Don’t Let Grants Stress You Out,” whether you are a grant-writing client, a grant-training participant, or a broader member of our community. Pretty interesting points. Is it my tone? I don’t think so. Absolutely not.

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The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 9, 2024

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Before campaign advisors, spin doctors, influencers or ad men, there was the Greek philosopher, Aristotle. As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff. The first of these is ethos. funders) might not listen.

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Grant Writer Team

MAY 23, 2024

Businesses and nonprofits need grant writers who are versatile enough to handle any proposal. Grant Consultants are currently trending. What’s more, are those differences enough to warrant an organization to change from grant writer to grant consultant? Grant writer/grant consultant; it’s potato/potahto, isn’t it?

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 8, 2024

As grant directors, managers, and writers you need to understand what you are writing about in your proposals, especially if you aren’t involved directly in the project or program development. Are you prepared to remind those who hold the answers – or the planning process – that you both want the same thing – a strong proposal?

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

JULY 21, 2024

Now the presidential election is heating up, I find myself interested in the little tricks used by political consultants to influence voters. Some of the political consultants’ best ideas are the result of eye-tracking experiments. The question is how can we apply these ideas to improving a proposal cover letter?

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Gail Perry Group

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Written by Gina Vaughn, Managing Consultant at Gail Perry Group. And here's the exciting part: some proposals suggest restoring charitable deductions for non-itemizers at levels that would make the COVID-era $300/$600 allowances look tiny we're talking about possible deductions up to $4,600 for individuals and $9,200 for joint filers.

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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As a grant writer, it’s important that to have the focus and commitment necessary to bring together the various components required to adhere to the framework of the grant and while preparing an effective proposal to give any organization the best possibility of being awarded the grant. Empowering Technology to Improve Capacity!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This not only shows that you did your research, but when you purposefully put effort into developing these questions ahead of time, you ensure you won’t sit down to write a proposal a month from now and realize you are unclear about the funder’s process or if your organization really is a good fit for their priorities.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

For example, presenting a communitys poverty rate as 30% when it is actually 20% may make a proposal seem more urgent but undermines the integrity of the grant application. Focus on crafting proposals that are honest about challenges and measured in their promises. Grant writing is a profession grounded in trust.

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GrantNews

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You must pay for a writer in advance before you turn in your proposal. However, the total overall average cost for a grant proposal of 5 to 8 pages of narrative text is about $1,500. Writing LOIs and budget proposals. It is best to start early when submitting this kind of grant proposal. Want to learn more?

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

Grant proposals take a lot of work. And nobody wants to see their proposal get discarded by a funder for something that could have been easily fixed. So, we asked you on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook: What red flags do funders look out for when reading a grant proposal? Did we miss a red flag? Did we miss a red flag?

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Blackbaud

MARCH 3, 2025

Link Technology Investments to the Organization’s Strategic Plan and Objectives To make a strong business case for any technology investment, you need to ensure that the proposal benefits not only the finance team but the organization as a whole. Can other departments use these new systems and benefit from what finance is proposing?

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

In an increasingly competitive landscape, it is essential to present compelling proposals that stand out and resonate with potential funders. Researching their previous projects and funded initiatives can provide invaluable insights and allow you to tailor your proposal to reflect their priorities.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to create a problem or needs statement before you write an effective proposal. To that end, we hope the following information helps you to better understand its importance when preparing your grant proposal. The functionality of your problem or needs statement is as the primary driver of your grant proposal.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. In this blog, we share the major types of grant proposal documents, their components, and free sample resources to show you what a successful version of each one looks like.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 23, 2023

Here are five effective ways to increase your income and achieve your financial goals as a grant writing consultant. If you have the skill set to fulfill those needs, propose offering those services to your clients for an additional fee.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Whether you are a novice or looking to refine your skills, the art of crafting compelling grant proposals can make all the difference in funding your vision. Understanding the importance of this skill not only prepares individuals to craft compelling proposals, but also helps them grasp the broader impact of their work.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 3, 2025

In the foundation grant proposal, you will be able to tell them how you measure success and what markers you are reaching for. You can schedule a no-obligation consultation call with a member of our team. However, federal grant funding is very hard to get. This will make finding the right partner even more critical this year.

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GrantNews

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With a little research on a grant funder, grant-seekers can get a leg up and ensure their grant proposal stands out to grant-makers during the review process. In truth, this information also helps you make the determination of how much to ask for in your proposal. In truth, only the best grant proposals are considered for funding.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Alice Rossignol, Nonprofit Consultant Avoid AI Shortcuts and Put Yourself in the Donor’s Shoes Some suggest grant writing can be done by AI. on Mental Illness Whenever Possible, Consult with an Expert After we won a surprising grant, and a large one for us, I looked again at our application. David Patt from the National Assn.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Or the time we used carbon paper to create multiple copies of a grant proposal, leaving our fingers stained and our drafts smudged beyond recognition? Online submissions eliminate the risk of losing a mailed proposal to the abyss. Program design back then required grit (and maybe a little correction fluid).

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At Think and Ink Grant Consulting, we emphasize the importance of stewardship. Stewardship in grant writing means maintaining an ongoing connection with funders, updating them on your organization’s progress, and demonstrating your impact long before submitting a grant proposal. I’ll explain everything in our proposal.”

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

As grant professionals, we have a responsibility to keep Who at the center of every proposal we write because they are the very reason grants even exist. By prioritizing Who in our proposals using compassionate grant writing like the second example, we help funding reach where its needed most, empowering people, not just institutions.

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Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Rates for simple foundation proposals typically range from $300 to $3,000, while complex federal grants may require significantly higher investments. Yet this payment structure can lead to unexpected total costs because grant proposals often take longer than planned. Most retainer agreements last 6-12 months.

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The Grantsmanship Center

MARCH 27, 2025

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking We've written the proposal. Yet if the readers mind wanders after a few minutes, or worse they yawn our proposal may be in trouble. Consider repeating that approach in each section of your proposal. Patty Wolfe is an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations.

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The Grantsmanship Center

APRIL 16, 2025

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking In an earlier blog, I discussed how to strengthen your proposal by adding context to the Problem Discussion with descriptive detail. Part Two is about giving the reader a sense of place to add meaning to the proposal. It will add power and depth to your proposal.

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