Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Even seasoned grant writers make grant proposal errors, but small changes can be the difference between a funded project and a missed opportunity. If allowed, include both direct and indirect costs. Tie each cost to a purpose: Funders should be able to see how each expense contributes to your goals. The good news?

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

But applying for every opportunity is a fast track to burnout, not funding. With the difficulties of the current funding landscape , it’s more important than ever to be super strategic about who you approach for funding. Assess opportunity cost. This is even more imperative when grant writing for small nonprofits.

Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Organizations need to understand the simple mechanics of grant writing to vary their funding in today’s uncertain economy. Organizations craft persuasive proposals to get funding from institutions that provide financial support without asking for repayment. Grants are awarded based on merit rather than need.

Grant Writing

Candid

JUNE 5, 2025

Tips and best practices for developing a nonprofit budget But what does an actual budget document look like? Here are a few: Four common grant proposal documents (free samples included). grants and other contributions) and anticipated expenses, including direct costs (e.g., It’s helpful to have models from which to work.

Budget

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

And yet, theyre also some of the most lucrative, prestigious, and transformational funding opportunities out there. Pro tip: In the draft stage, literally paste the funders questions into your document and write answers beneath them. If something worked well in a prior funded proposal, why reinvent it? They dont go it alone.

Federal Grants

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

To meet those requirements, you’ll need to be able to successfully track and manage your grants and effectively report on how you allocated these funds. If you are a grant-funded organization, it will be important to manage spending restrictions and meet reporting requirements. Tracking: Cut Out the Spreadsheets!

Indirect Cost

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. There are four major documents that you may need to create if your nonprofit is looking for funding. Other funding sources that are being approached.

Proposal

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Grant funding looks beautiful in your income statement, but if you’re not careful, the reporting requirements can be prickly. In our webinar with Rachel Werner and James Spencer from RBW Strategy, they covered steps to help nonprofits that receive—or are looking to start receiving—government grant funding.

Government

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately.

Indirect Cost

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

Since the original Uniform Grant Guidance was issued in 2014, federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors have grumbled about the confusing jargon, lack of clarity, and general “squishiness” about some of the guidance’s language and how it applies to all recipients of federal funding.

UEI

Candid

JUNE 9, 2022

Many funders say that the proposal project budget is the first part of the application they look at so they’re a great way to make your case for funding. . A proposal project budget consists of two basic elements: 1) the estimated costs of your project and 2) the anticipated income needed to meet those costs. Have a question?

Budget

Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Like climbing a mountain, it helps to have a path to follow to reach its summit, or in this case, a map of sorts to guide you to your desired destination—a compelling proposal that unlocks funding to advance your mission-driven work. In this section, you will also want to detail the revenue sources you are planning to use to fund the project.

Proposal

Blackbaud

AUGUST 20, 2024

Whether you want to hear about product updates like automated payments and AI or brush up on fund accounting best practices, you don’t want to miss these bbcon 2024 financial management sessions. They will also touch on the developments happening with AI-powered document intelligence that will make invoice scanning and automation a breeze.

Finance

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But your goal should be to spend appropriately on fundraising so you can bring in the money you need to fully fund your programs. Your fundraising spending should be the right amount to fully fund your budget without wasting money on ineffective strategies. Donor management software and other technology tools used for raising funds.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The topic is research funding. 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. In this post, we share what we’ve learned about finding research funding based on our experience working with faculty at US-based universities.

Funding

Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. The original document became effective in December 2014. What updates were made?

GPC

Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

When you come across a funding opportunity that looks like it is a good fit, it can be tempting to start work on it immediately, especially if the deadline is only a few weeks away. What documentation is acceptable to document compliance? Hyperlinks Are hyperlinks allowed in the document?

Funding

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

The Importance of Budgets in 2024’s Nonprofit Sector The nonprofit sector faces unique challenges and opportunities in 2024: Economic Uncertainty: Fluctuations in the global economy contribute to unpredictable funding streams, making financial sustainability a continuous challenge.

Budget