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Fetching Funds: How Animal Organizations Can Find and Win Grants

Grant Professionals Association

In Letters of Inquiry (LOIs), I weave the stories and photos right into the letter. This was something I resisted for years until I started testing it and found that LOIs with stories and photos received much better responses. Funders love a great underdog story, so I use stories with photos whenever I can.

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Go from Rejected to Accepted: 9 Reasons Your Grants Get Rejected (and How to Fix Them) w/ Teresa Huff | Instrumentl

Instrumentl

Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. Tap into your board and their experience, their education. She also launched a podcast to inspire others to make a difference. Together, that's what you need to show.

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What Is an RFP and How Is It Best Used to Apply for Grants?

GrantNews

This final section includes deadlines, conference dates, and the potential need for an LOI or letter of intent. Local service programs should address one of the focus areas, including disaster services, economic opportunity, education and environmental stewardship. Submit an LOI prior to submitting a full proposal.

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Spotlighting the State of Maryland

GrantNews

Funding is also for projects focusing on health, education, youth, senior services, libraries and literacy, historic preservation, and animal welfare. For grants over $10,000, a Letter of Intent (LOI) will be submitted prior to applying. In addition, grants to eligible Maryland nonprofits to benefit communities/education-systems.

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You want to hire a grant writer, but is hiring a grant writer full-time the best fit?

Millionaire Grant Lady

Letter of Intent/Inquiry (LOI): Some application processes start with an LOI. LOIs may need to be submitted ahead of the posted application deadline. Sometimes, you can wait months between submitting an LOI and being invited to submit a grant application.

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Undergraduate Education: Teaching the Next Generation of Grant Pros

Grant Professionals Association

A year later we received the first million dollar grant award in the district’s history and I realized that my degrees in English and Education had accidentally perfectly prepared me for this job. That made me wonder – what if I had been purposefully prepared?

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Learn To Write Grants With The Queen of Grants

GrantNews

The narrative begins with my early days as an NYC Department educator, securing my initial grant, and evolving into a successful grant writer. Finally, I end the book with a demonstration of an LOI letter of inquiry using ChatGPT as a refining tool and include my thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and the future of grant writing.