Finance Grant Readiness Readiness 
Grant Professionals Association
APRIL 2, 2025
If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Understanding how your organization makes grant submission decisions is critical. Do We Have Shovel-Ready Projects?
Assel Grant Services
DECEMBER 8, 2024
While board members play an important role in assuring agency finances and grant funds are treated ethically, they are also partially responsible for resource development that is, ensuring their organization has the resources needed to fulfill its mission. Understand the issues that could impact their nonprofit agencys finances (e.g.,
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Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 2, 2025
When the budget doesn’t align with the story you’re telling—or worse, contradicts it—it sends a clear message to reviewers: this organization may not be ready to manage grant funding effectively. Consult with finance staff or partners early. Outdated grant budgets for nonprofits don’t just look lazy to funders.
Grant Writing Made Easy
MAY 20, 2025
A Grant Writing Toolkit is a centralized place (digital or physical) where you store commonly used grant content so you can easily pull it into new proposals. Instead of scrambling for details every time, youll have the essentials ready to go. Schedule Updates: Add it to your quarterly planning routine.
Candid
MARCH 25, 2024
Candid offers many resources to support organizations in searching for funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, and standing out among applicants. Therefore, it’s important that your house be in order and that you are prepared to be transparent about your operations, strategy, finances, and staff.
Blackbaud
MAY 23, 2024
Before agreeing to take on federal funding, your organization should thoroughly understand the financial implications, including how funds will need to be tracked, how staff and contractor time and effort will need to be recorded, what program costs are allowable , and how they will be communicated and tracked with program staff and finance staff.
Grant Professionals Association
JUNE 13, 2023
Is your organization grant-ready? When you’re an early-career grant writer or are building a grants program for the first time, this can be a daunting question; I know that it was for me. When it comes down to it, grant readiness comes from preparation in three main areas: Resources, Collaboration, and Alignment.
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