Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Ive been writing grant proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth and have seen various attempts to reform the federal grant-making process. One of the requirements of the bill is that evaluation criteria (weve often written about evaluations ) be published in the RFP, although many federal grant-making agencies already do so.

Federal Grants

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Heres the playbook for survivingand thrivingwhen its time to build that next monster federal grant proposal. Build a Strike Team Before the Battle Begins Federal proposals are too complex for one person to carry alone. Repurpose Like a Pro Federal grants thrive on complianceand compliance thrives on consistency.

Federal Grants

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 29, 2024

Indirect costs are the backbone of an organization’s operations. Also known as overhead or administrative costs, they ensure organizations smooth functioning. In the grant sphere, indirect costs represent the expenses associated with general operation and support of an organization or project.

Indirect Cost

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A grant manager is anyone involved in the management and administration of a grant (e.g., finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). Have you ever wondered what indirect costs entail, or heard the term “de minimus rate” and questioned what that means?

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

Blackbaud

AUGUST 20, 2024

If your organization received some of the more than $1 trillion in federal government funding that was available in the past few years, you may now be trying to navigate the complex federal grant requirements.

Finance

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. Before 2013, federal grant requirements were located in multiple OMB circulars.

GPC

Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

BUDGET A proposal budget is another area where the questions can be very specific to the solicitation at hand, although a few questions are standard fare, including: Are indirect costs allowable? Most funders list their policy on indirects in the solicitations. Is match (cost share) required?

Funding

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

If you understand how to build a project budget—and you are familiar with concepts like overhead, indirects, and fringe benefits and how they impact a project— it will make you a more competent grant seeker and ultimately project director if the proposal receives funding.

Funding