Grant Training Center

MARCH 31, 2025

In light of recent developments, the federal grant landscape has undergone significant changes, creating uncertainty for many researchers and institutions. The recent Executive Order signed on February 26, 2025, has introduced sweeping changes to how federal discretionary funding is managed.

Federal Grants

Blackbaud

MARCH 17, 2025

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.

Federal Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

The pressure to pursue every funding opportunity can feel overwhelming, especially in today’s environment of shrinking public resources and steep competition for private grants. But here’s the truth: not all grants are worth your time. Use this checklist to evaluate grant opportunities effectively and make informed decisions.

Grant

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Offset Federal Funding Freezes While optimism is ever present among nonprofits, the federal funding freezes have a catastrophic, far-reaching impact. Our fundraising team is already including more consultation time with every GiveSmart contract to best support our partners.

Federal Grants

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Former President Barak Obama once said: Elections have consequences and this is certainly true for recipients reliant on federal grants and loans. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), Unleashing American Energy (Jan. 24, 2025). [a][b]

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The move was prompted by the Trump administration's freeze on federal foreign aid and the now-suspended freeze on federal grants. The move was prompted by the Trump administration's freeze on federal foreign aid and the now-suspended freeze on federal grants.

Federal Grants

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

Secondly, I worked as a contractor on a federal grant and was the final staff left to close the grant/organization down as a result of the grant ending after three years. Finally, I left a job as a grant coordinator after I was there six months when I saw the “writing on the wall” that the grant would not be renewed.

GPC

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MAY 18, 2025

.” By the way, theres nothing to prevent Harvard from using, say, $20 billion, of its huge endowment to set up a foundation to make grants to nonprofit human service providers, but wheres the fun in that for Harvard? silent on DOGEs remarkable efforts to rid the grant-making process of apparent corruption? Nuff said on this one.

Federal Grants

RBW Strategy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The key elements you want to have in place when you are awarded a federal grant project Congratulations! You have been awarded a federal grant. Whether you are a recipient, pass-through entity, or subrecipient, you have been given the unique responsibility of becoming a steward of federal grant funds.

Federal Grants

RBW Strategy

JUNE 3, 2024

RBW Strategy has partnered with Maryland Nonprofits since 2020 on several grant projects and grant trainings, to support the organization, component organizations under its umbrella, and its member entities. All of this support has helped build the organization’s grant-seeking capacity.

Federal Grants

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance It’s the news that all our grant enthusiasts and compliance champions have been waiting for – the new Uniform Grant Guidance has been issued! The Top 10 Uniform Grant Guidance Updates Drum roll, please…. This allows for more flexibility at the end of a grant award period.

UEI

RBW Strategy

MAY 14, 2024

Challenge While the AAMC is a large organization with large federal and foundation grants supporting several key initiatives, they comprise only a small percentage of the overall organization budget. The grants office consists of just two staff members.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

In response to recent GPA membership survey results showing that 37% of us are grant consultants, a discussion of business development may be helpful. One of the ways grant consultants can continue their professional development and shore up internal business practices is to engage a business coach. Louis this fall.

Contracts

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program Act of 2023 waits to be signed into law. To that end, we also have a BIPOC grant category that contains close to 1,700 grants that mirror the focus of this bill. What is The Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program Act of 2023? Hot off the presses! The full title of Bill S.

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Grants Plus

JANUARY 19, 2024

By: Laura Altieri According to the National Council of Nonprofits, more than 30% of nonprofit revenues come from government grants and contracts. However, if your organization has already gone through the process of securing government grants, you are no stranger to the complexities and resource-intensive nature of the endeavor.

Government

Grant Writer Team

JUNE 20, 2024

Are you a grant seeker looking to hire a grant writer? GrantWriterTeam provides an easy-to-use platform for grant seekers to match with the perfect grant writer. Here are 15 of the most commonly asked grant seeker questions about our website to help you determine if our service is right for you!

Grant

Elevate

MARCH 4, 2025

For many nonprofits, federal grants and contracts are just one part of their larger revenue profile. In early 2025 […]

Federal Grants

Grant Writer Team

OCTOBER 16, 2024

However, grants provide a source of funding that is often overlooked. But, rather than applying for loans, consider grant funding. After all, grants don’t need to be paid back. Grants from foundations can provide entrepreneurs and small businesses with the resources they need without the burden of debt.

Funding

Sharpshooter Communications

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Not too long ago, Sharpshooter was working with a new client on a federal grant that had a super quick turnaround. However, we were really moved by the work the organization did, and we decided to attempt the impossible - write a federal grant in less than 7 days for a completely new-to-us organization.

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Maybe your organization doesn’t have the internal expertise or time to conduct a program evaluation yourself, or a grant funder requires a third-party evaluation. As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs.

Budget

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 18, 2024

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development, Rural Utilities Services’ Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program is accepting applications for equipment, software, and other technological needs to provide education and medical services to remote areas with populations of 20,000 and under.

USDA

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By now, I hope you are realizing grant management doesn’t have to be a scary web of confusing topics and rules. With this grant management series, I aim to outline some of the commonly seen issues and provide resources to learn more. NGMA divides the grant lifecycle into three phases: pre-award, award, and post-award.

Indirect Cost

GrantNews

MAY 31, 2024

Want to know your chances of being awarded grant funding? So, how can you increase your odds of winning a grant? The database houses thousands of current grants and offers many search features, all geared to accomplish one thing: to help you improve your rate of success. It’s a common question. Data collected from U.S.

Award

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Too often, grant management is seen as a scary, messy aspect of grant funding, and we have a vague understanding of the requirements or components. In the nonprofit field, it’s common for staff to be put in a role where they manage grants but might not have the knowledge or resources to understand what that entails.

Grant Management

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Find the first installment of this series, Developing a Grant Project here. As Stephanie Gerding mentions in her piece, “there is not one directory, website or database that will neatly list all the grants that match your specific project.” Federal Government Grants.

Government

Grant Geek

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Grant Questions? While many elements can assist your organization with the new normal, grant funding will play a large part. In preparation for this effort, there are various activities you can complete right now to position yourself in the best possible way to win grant funding in the coming year. Let’s talk.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Our blog posts typically focus on grant strategies for nonprofit institutions. Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. Creating a Realistic Timeline for Preparing Your Grant Proposal a. Key Budgeting Concepts VI.

Funding

Grant Geek

AUGUST 17, 2020

Grant Questions? You’ve found a government grant and, if awarded, it will literally pay your nonprofit to go out and accomplish its mission. Government grants are often larger and last longer than your average private foundation grant. Grant Application. HHS Grants Policy Statement. Let’s talk.

Readiness

Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Recent developments around an Office of Management and Budget memorandum to freeze federal grants and loans has put the nonprofit sector in the spotlight. But just how many nonprofits receive government grants? And how big a role do government grants play in the nonprofit sector? Heres what we know.

Government

GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Offset Federal Funding Freezes While optimism is ever present among nonprofits, the federal funding freezes have a catastrophic, far-reaching impact. Our fundraising team is already including more consultation time with every GiveSmart contract to best support our partners.

Federal Grants

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Many grant-seeking nonprofit CEOs, including some of our clients, are concerned about changing funding priorities likely under the impeding Trump 2.0 administration, as S+A recently posted: The 2024 Election: A Grant Writer’s Post Mortem. Concern over un-obligated funds from large Biden era administration grant programs is also high.

Manufacturing