DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When it comes to making an impact on the communities and issues they have prioritized as a philanthropic body, grant funders live vicariously through their awardees. Fortunately, there are tools in the world of program evaluation that we can tap into as grant writers to tell our stories of impact in a compelling way.

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Logic Model Grant Writing Applicant Application 110

The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 9, 2024

As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff. Thomas Boyd is Chief Editorial Consultant for The Grantsmanship Center and an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations. The first of these is ethos.

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Proposal Logic Model Proposal Writing Grant 105

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 10, 2022

Either/or thinking has stopped or slowed some major career choices such as employee vs. consultant, grants vs. fundraising, grant writing vs. coaching or training. That’s why Amanda and I gathered examples of positive steps, big and small, that people in the grants profession have taken to address DEI.

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Logic Model Grant Grants Grant Writing 59

Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

As a grant professional, I smile when these opportunities for "ah-ha" moments arise. I specialize in grants supporting women, children, health, and education, so some of my clients' outputs are similar to # of health training sessions provided, # of women helped, or # of students taught. outcomes win grants.

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Logic Model Grant Grants GPC 52

Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you have not yet had any “ah-ha moments” when it comes to learning how to write grants, you are in for a real treat. This is the holy grail of grant writing. The problem is that many nonprofit leaders and some grant writers do not have a clear understanding of the difference between goals, outcomes, and outputs.

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Grant Writing Goals Logic Model GPC 52

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

I don’t mean to infer that reading grants is boring, and I’m not promoting performance-enhancing drugs. I’ve written grants, primarily federal grants, for more than 30 years, but my love is creative writing. Some might see creative writing as antithetical to federal grant writing. The logic model.

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Federal Grants Logic Model Grant Grants 52

Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Pursuing grants is hard work. 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. She is a grant professional, an active speaker, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Grant Professionals Association.

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Grant Grants Logic Model GPC 52

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

So, are you ready to up your fundraising and development goals for 2024 by securing grant funding? Organizational development plays a crucial role in the process of becoming grant-ready by providing the foundation and framework necessary to effectively pursue and manage grant funding.

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Grant Readiness Readiness Grant Grants 59

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Over more than 25 years of researching, prioritizing, writing, developing objectives, creating evaluation plans, and tangling with logic models, I never spent much time measuring a crucial aspect of work that affects all those tasks and more—my happiness. What makes you happy about the work you do?

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Logic Model Grant Writing Metrics Consulting 52

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

Author Bio: Amanda Acton, GPC (she/her) is a grant professional living in Central Iowa (unceded traditional lands of the Baxoje). After Herman Melville convinced her not to become an English teacher, she instead wend her way into the world of grants. She also enjoys proselytizing about grants whenever she can.

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IT Logic Model GPC Proposal 64

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Grant Grants Logic Model Goals 97

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

March Madness is in full swing, and all this talk about competition and brackets makes me think about how grant writing relates. Grants, much like professional sports, are competitive, and increasingly so. To be competitive, your grant team must train and prepare to advance through the rounds and win awards.

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GPC Training Logic Model Grant Readiness 40

Blackbaud

JANUARY 16, 2025

The ripple effect of this practice is that people feel left out, and further exhausted and frustrated by being asked to design, execute, and participate in solutions for which they were never consulted. We like to represent our work like its clean, under control, and spot-on.

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