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Pre- and Post-Award is like PB&J

RBW Strategy

Thinking through the post-award experience from a pre-award vantage Picture this – you work at a nonprofit and have a big, audacious project that you are looking to get off the ground. For those who have spent countless hours preparing federal grant applications, you know that this isnt easy. Seems like a win, right?

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How to Evaluate Grant Opportunities: When to Say No to a Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

When you evaluate grant opportunities first through the lens of alignment, you protect your organization’s integrity and ensure that funding supports your mission rather than distracts from it. In both cases, passing and finding a better- aligned opportunity is more strategic. Can We Realistically Fulfill the Grant Requirements?

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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

I've had that many people go through my program or my podcast is now in a ton of countries, which is so cool, but it took a little bit of figuring and looking at it differently of how could I reframe some of these facts about myself that were right there the whole time. But how many grants have you written in your career?

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Surviving the Trump Administration’s Grant Review Process

Grant Professionals Association

Former President Barak Obama once said: Elections have consequences and this is certainly true for recipients reliant on federal grants and loans. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. through OMB Memo M-25-13 issued on January 27, 2025.

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Federal Grant Funding Update for Nonprofits (Q2 2025)

Grant Writing Made Easy

The federal grant funding update for Q2 2025 reveals intensified volatility across the nonprofit landscape. Executive orders, delayed disbursements, judicial interventions, and administrative overhauls have left grant writers navigating what experts are calling a “ tsunami of uncertainty. ”

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Future-Proof Your Organization with Effective Budget Scenarios

Blackbaud

If your programs always bring in their budgeted revenue, if your major donors always come through when they say they will, and if you receive every grant you apply for, you dont need budget scenarios. Budget scenario planning may not be for everyone. And if it does sound like your organization, please share your secrets!

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How to Kickoff Your Federal Grant Project

RBW Strategy

The key elements you want to have in place when you are awarded a federal grant project Congratulations! You have been awarded a federal grant. Whether you are a recipient, pass-through entity, or subrecipient, you have been given the unique responsibility of becoming a steward of federal grant funds.