Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If Charlie was supposed to get the logic model to you two days ago, you need to be empowered to go to his boss about it. He now works for Wastyn & Associates in Davenport, Iowa, writing grants for food banks, educational programs, and capital projects nationwide. Most important: set interim deadlines and enforce them.

Logic Model

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 7, 2025

.** As tech tools emerged in the mid-80s to ‘90s, the NOFOs slowly changed, allowing and sometimes requiring longer narrative sections, as well as attachments like organization charts, maps, logic models, flow diagrams, etc. To continue the mixing of metaphors, it’s Back to the Future for us grant writers.

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Example: If a $5,000 grant requires a full proposal, logic model, budget narrative, letters of support, and quarterly reports, but you could apply for a $50,000 grant with a similar application structure, the higher-value grant is a much better investment of your time. Is the grant renewable or one-time only?

Grants

Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. If you've followed me for any length of time, you will have come across a presentation or two about logic models. In logic models, each prior step informs the next step.

Logic Model

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. A logic model is a way to show the relationship between project resources, proposed activities, outcomes, and the impact you hope to achieve. Example timeline.

Proposal

Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

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. In logic model language (check this out to learn why logic models are essential), outputs are the direct results of your activities.

Logic Model

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Example timeline Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. A logic model is a way to show the relationship between project resources, proposed activities, outcomes, and the impact you hope to achieve.

Proposal