Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Elevate your proposals using refreshed templates, updated data insights, and a stronger commitment to equity, ensuring your applications stand out in a crowded grant space. Set status updates, assign sections, and attach supporting documents so everyone stays on track. Invest in templates and training Smart tools pay for themselves.

Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

For nonprofits, this means less time spent proving worth through excessive documentation and more focused on delivering impact. This could be a one-page mutual expectations document outlining how you’ll communicate, report impact, and share feedback over time. Document a clear use policy. Ready to elevate your grant readiness?

Grants

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

For example, our team has supported nonprofits with completing a new funder search , writing a single federal grant, or preparing a new grant template for your team to use to complete grant applications. Our team of grant professionals is ready to support you today.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 21, 2025

We’ve created a streamlined approach to grant writing with tools designed to help you leverage past efforts for future wins: the AI Grants Hub™, featuring the Standard Grant Narrative, the Grant Application Library, and the Organizational Documents Library. Want to see all of The Hub’s features? Check them out here.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JULY 29, 2025

Are you ready to make the most of it? Ask volunteers to submit their own photos or videos or document their experience on TikTok or Instagram Reels. Pro tip: Provide ready-to-use graphics, hashtags, and messaging to make it easier for supporters to spread the word and share their own social posts.

Media

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For those ready to embark on this journey, exploring online grant writing courses and utilizing grant writing templates can provide powerful resources to aid this process. Resources like grant writing templates can also be helpful.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Missed details can derail your proposal: Important components—like letters of support or compliance documents—can be overlooked or improperly formatted. Want more support, templates, and training to help you avoid these errors from the start? Team burnout is real: Scrambling at the last minute affects morale and productivity.

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Scattered deadlines, disjointed documents, and disconnected systems make it nearly impossible to stay on top of funding opportunities strategically. What’s missing from this approach are things like task tracking, draft storage, document management, and narrative re-use tools. It’s a lack of infrastructure.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

Thats where a Grant Writing Toolkit comes ina collection of reusable content, data, and templates that make the grant writing process faster, smoother, and less overwhelming. Instead of scrambling for details every time, youll have the essentials ready to go. Statement of Need A general version that you can tailor for each proposal.

Grant Writing

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Common project fees include: Writing proposals for new programs: $2,500-$6,000 Creating template grant proposals that work for different funders: $3,000-$6,000 Managing complex federal grants: $7,000-$10,000 Project fees usually come with payment milestones. Your organization needs to be ready before you bring in any writer.

Grants

Blackbaud

MAY 19, 2025

When youve documented and implemented a strong conflict of interest policy, you protect your team, ensure ethical decision-making, and strengthen your reputation among grantees and stakeholders. Industry- and Impact-Area-Specific Language A COI policy is not a one-size-fits-all document.

Policy

Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

The Purpose of a Budget for Your K-12 Private School Your budget is the guiding financial document for your school. Create or Update your Documented Budget Process Make sure your documented budgeting processes are up to date with the correct people, tools, and expected timelines.

Budget

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2025

By centralizing all your essential grant materials, narratives, documents, and tasks into one easy-to-use system, the Hub eliminates the need for constant reinvention. Imagine never having to rewrite a proposal from scratch, frantically search for past documents, or scramble for outdated templates again.

Burnout

Blackbaud

MAY 12, 2025

Inconsistent Updates: When updates to the budget are not consistently communicated and documented, your team may inadvertently use outdated information for decision-making. No Documented Budget Approval Process: When there isnt documentation, people rely on outdated information or make up their own process.

Budget

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Document your flexibility, but use the word “suggested” to allow discretion. Program Readiness Assessment Rate your organization’s readiness on these key factors (1=Not Ready, 5=Fully Ready): The form can be filled in the actual website url.

Policy

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Pro tip: In the draft stage, literally paste the funders questions into your document and write answers beneath them. Keeping a Federal-Ready folder with: Updated resumes Letters of support/MOUs SAM registration DUNS/UEI number Indirect cost rate agreement Leveraging past applicationsyours or from similar orgsas templates.

Federal Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

These might include: 501(c)(3) nonprofit status Specific geographic areas or populations served Minimum or maximum annual operating budgets Years in operation Required match or cost-sharing Audit history or financial documentation Even one missing element can disqualify your proposal, regardless of how compelling your narrative is.

Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Don't try to worry about digging through because they are very long tax documents and maybe some of you are tax people. It saves so much headache if you're not used to those types of forms and documents. And so everything is going to be ready for you in terms of these respective points. Do a couple searches and boom.

Instrumentl

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

When I'm getting ready to work on a big grant application, I tell my husband I'm going scuba diving. You've got to go deep and stay deep until you're ready to come back up. And when it's well-documented how to follow the system. I always kind of joke with my family, but kinda not. Calendar alerts.

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Operational Disruptions Affecting Grant Readiness In addition to funding losses, nonprofits are experiencing widespread administrative breakdowns in the federal grant system. Add “Risk and Adaptation” Language to Templates Demonstrate that your organization is aware of the external funding climate and actively planning in response to it.

Federal Grants

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Even the word “planning document” might make you stressed. That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. These templates come with a number of tips that we’ve pulled together to help you through the process of planning. Creating a Fundraising Plan.

Calendar

Grant'd

JULY 23, 2020

It’s to get grants ready! Yet for all the power this step promises them, many grant seekers tend to skip getting grants ready, often simply because they’re unsure of the how. So for all of you DIY grant seekers out there, we’ve pulled together a step by step list of what you’ll need to do to get grants ready.

Grant Readiness

Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Key points: The 2013 version allows you to easily create professional-looking outreach materials using ready-made templates within the application (even more templates are available on the Internet). PDFs can also be created from scanned paper documents and forms. Just pop in your own text and images.

Publishing

Blackbaud

JANUARY 15, 2024

They parse the grant documentation to understand if their organization is a good fit, they gather information from throughout the organization, and they mold it into an engaging story about the important work the organization is doing. Also review your formatting guidelines and templates.

Applicant

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

A project charter is a brief, formal document that concisely articulates the essential details of the project, such as its purpose, scope, goals, and contributors. You can get a downloadable project charter template on our resource center. Make sure to document exactly what your project will be focused on (i.e., out of scope).

Software

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

If nothing else, these things will ensure that your receipt is useful as a tax document. You can also add a PDF-specific note like, “Please keep this document for your tax records.”. Ready to start writing your receipt? Ready to take a look at our redesigned forms? These interactive templates are full of stats and tips!

Donation

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Look for tools in your grant management system that provide customizable templates admins can configure, allowing users to save PDF reports detailing critical information about requests and the organizations making those requests. Use templates when possible so that the message is standardized and ready for each grant cycle.

Grant Management

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

Create a Policies and Procedures Manual Once a new employee joins your team, having a comprehensive document outlining standard procedures for data entry will make that transition much easier on both the individual and the staff members training them. Here is a document that outlines the different security roles available in the system.

Policy

Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

Having retention material ready to go will save your organization time and money. You can ask ChatGPT to create a thank you phone script for your volunteers, create an email thank you template, thank you messaging for a specific campaign you’ve run, and more! And the good news is that ChatGPT can help!

ChatGPT

Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2015

By visual communication, we mean enriching your newsletters, documents, and presentations with things that make information more interesting like graphs, maps, tables, infographics, photos, drawings, diagrams, and videos. If you've got to get someone's attention, the secret is visual communication.

Template

Just Write Grants

JULY 25, 2023

An RFP, or Request for Proposal, is a formal document organizations use to solicit bids from potential vendors or service providers for a specific project or service. Are you ready to craft an effective RFP that attracts the perfect partners for your nonprofit organization's impactful projects? What is an RFP, and Why it Matters?

Template

Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These include: Maintain up-to-date project and program templates – organisations need to be ready to act when that suitable grant opportunity emerges with a month’s notice.

Government

CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a document that strategically organizes all of your fundraising activities over a certain period of time (usually one year). Download Our Free Fundraising Plan & Calendar Template: Why Do You Need a Fundraising Strategy? Are you ready to create a great fundraising plan?

Fundraising

Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This blog post explores how to create an annual fundraising plan and even provides a helpful annual fundraising plan template to help putting together your fundraising plan easier. Ready to download the template? Download Template. Download Template. Here you go! What does a nonprofit strategic plan include?

Fundraising

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When using AI tools to help you draft an award letter, for example, have it put together a template that you can go back and add the grantee information. Document under what circumstances you expect potential grantees to use AI as part of their application responses.

Policy

Just Write Grants

APRIL 23, 2024

Proposal Templates: Save time with pre-formatted structures for common proposal sections. Financial Documents: Financial Statements: Demonstrate your financial health and stability. Creating Adaptable Templates: Think of proposal sections like building blocks. Testimonials: Let satisfied clients speak for your impact.

Grant Writing

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From accounting to fundraising, there’s a solution ready to pick up the load weighing your team down and help you achieve your fundraising goals ! With its intuitive design tools and extensive library of templates, Canva makes it easy for organizations to produce eye-catching graphics and materials without requiring advanced design skills.

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