Wild Apricot

JUNE 16, 2025

Running a nonprofit comes with a long to-do list – raising funds, managing programs, keeping records, staying compliant – the list goes on. For example, if your organization isn’t a registered 501(c)(3) or you’re unsure how your classification affects funding , a fiscal agent can help bridge the gap.

Logic Model

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Remember when research meant a trip to the library, flipping through fat foundation directories, praying the funding source you found wasn’t from a different year? Program design tools help us structure our logic models and theories of change. Fast forward to today, we are blessed. Technology supports every part of the process.

Logic Model

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. While originally centered around principles like unrestricted funding and reduced administrative burden, this approach has evolved.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Even seasoned grant writers make grant proposal errors, but small changes can be the difference between a funded project and a missed opportunity. Include a logic model or visual plan: Use a flowchart or diagram to show how your inputs become outputs, leading to desired outcomes. The good news?

Proposal

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

But applying for every opportunity is a fast track to burnout, not funding. With the difficulties of the current funding landscape , it’s more important than ever to be super strategic about who you approach for funding. This might include partnerships, additional funding streams, or community support. Start local.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

With competitive Q3 and Q4 deadlines on the horizon and public funding landscapes continuing to shift, organizations that pause, reset, and refocus are poised for success. This mid-year check-in is your opportunity to: Strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy by zeroing in on grants with the highest alignment and funding potential.

Grant

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. Back then, the term of art was Request for Proposals (RFP). Yes, there were EVs in 1979, but not very good ones.

Proposal

Strategic Grants

JULY 9, 2025

Is your logic model truly logical? Before hitting ‘submit,’ have someone proofread your submission for grammar, clarity, and alignment with the funding program and evaluation criterion (remember those highlighted passages we mentioned earlier). And are they measurable?

Government

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Trust-based giving replaces rigid reporting and earmarked restrictions with multi-year, unrestricted support, on the belief that nonprofits know best how to use their funding. People are calling for reparative giving, community-controlled funds, and funding models that serve movements, not egos. It may cost you funding.

Readiness

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

The pressure to pursue every funding opportunity can feel overwhelming, especially in today’s environment of shrinking public resources and steep competition for private grants. Nonprofits often operate under the mindset that more applications = more chances of funding. But here’s the truth: not all grants are worth your time.

Grant

The Grantsmanship Center

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking There comes a time when a proposal needs to include a logic model. A logic model is a picture of how your program is intended to work. A speed bump for a lot of people is the “outputs vs. outcomes” element of a logic model.

Logic Model

Fundraising HayDay

AUGUST 8, 2024

Logic models: you either love them or hope you never have to create one. Simply put, it is a flowchart that highlights the important elements of your planned work and intended results related to a grant funding request. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide Show Notes: W.K.

Logic Model

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The order in which our team recommends you approach pre-planning is to create drafts (not finalized, not set in stone, but working documents that are a starting point for the real application) of the three following elements: Logic model – A draft of the key elements of your program/project design.

Logic Model

Instrumentl

APRIL 29, 2024

Learn how to write an effective grant evaluation plan, including building a logic model, to evaluate the success of a grant-funded project [with examples]

Logic Model

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The prior is a listing of all funding opportunities from the government – ever! It’s not a list of funding that’s currently open but shows funding that has been made in the past. Just a brief sampling includes two tools for prospect research: www.sam.gov and www.usaspending.gov. View the lineup of upcoming sessions here.

Logic Model

Candid

MAY 7, 2024

It’s not uncommon for nonprofits to struggle with securing funding despite the strength of their programs. Funders seek a return on investment With so many applicants and limited funding to go around, foundations view a grant as an investment. Often, the reason a foundation declines a grant has nothing to do with you.

Proposal

Blackbaud

JANUARY 22, 2024

If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?” Your goal should be to efficiently collect the exact information you need to make a funding decision. What if English is not their first language?

Logic Model

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Despite their weaknesses, sometimes the proposals still get funded, but that’s the exception, not the rule. Is there a way to avoid the risk of submitting a weak proposal that has little chance of getting funded? Making a strong case for your proposed project does not mean emphasizing your organization’s need for funding.

Proposal

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Despite their weaknesses, sometimes the proposals still get funded, but that’s the exception, not the rule. Is there a way to avoid the risk of submitting a weak proposal that has little chance of getting funded? Making a strong case for your proposed project does not mean emphasizing your organization’s need for funding.

Proposal

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

The logic model. Developing a logic model before I start writing tells me who my characters are, what’s going to happen, and what the end result will be. I definitely fall into the former category when creating fiction, but I am firmly among the latter when I write a grant. My outline? Don’t forget emotion : Emotion?

Federal Grants

Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 4, 2024

Securing funding through grants demands foresight and meticulous planning, often long before the grant cycle officially opens. Valuable insights can be gleaned from historical deadlines and projected funding timelines, often available on platforms like grants.gov. With twelve months at hand, meticulous planning becomes feasible.

Federal Grants

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

So, are you ready to up your fundraising and development goals for 2024 by securing grant funding? Organizational development plays a crucial role in the process of becoming grant-ready by providing the foundation and framework necessary to effectively pursue and manage grant funding.

Grant Readiness

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

In addition to having a deep love for logic models and need statements, Amanda is passionate about cats, birds, and random trivia. GPC Competencies: #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application and #9: Ability to write a convincing case for funding

IT

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

hard and fast proof to qualify a community for programming, such as when funds have to benefit “disadvantaged” or “under-resourced” communities. hard and fast proof to qualify a community for programming, such as when funds have to benefit “disadvantaged” or “under-resourced” communities.

Demographics

Grant Training Center

MAY 30, 2023

Thus, successful grant writers: Strong Research Skills: Can identify relevant funding opportunities , understand the funding organization’s priorities and requirements, and gather supporting data and evidence for their proposals. They stay updated on funding trends, policy changes, and best practices in grant writing.

Grant

Think and Ink Grants

MAY 4, 2024

If you drop the ball on your reporting, that funder may never fund you again. Some may require developing a logic model, which is even more difficult. Those that require a match do spell out the match requirements in the RFP or funding opportunity. You are self-funding your nonprofit.

Federal Grants

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?” Has this worked all the time? Absolutely not. You better believe it!

Indirect Cost

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

A few years back, our agency was applying for a couple of multi-year, several million dollars’ worth of funding from the state department. While it worked out and both projects were funded, it was the beginning of some internal changes in how grant collaborations are conducted. Bonnie shares a great example of external sabotage.

GPC

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 25, 2024

Yet, within this staggering number of organizations, the majority struggle to raise substantial funds—over a million organizations annually have operating budgets of less than $50,000. This coupled with 1.54 What does this data mean?

Logic Model

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

In addition, the team should understand the legal and ethical requirements for managing grants, which can vary based on the source and scope of funding. There are many types of funding sources from family foundations to federal agencies, innovation challenges and competitions to managed trusts.

GPC

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Fast forward to today….

Logic Model

Professional Grant Writers

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Across a range of sectors, grant funding can be a critical factor in turning visions into reality. And professional grant proposal writing services. The post What is included in grant proposal writing services? appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

Proposal Writing

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofits rely on various sources of funding, including individual donations, grants from foundations and government agencies, corporate sponsorships, fundraising events, and earned income (e.g., fees for services or products they offer). It also helps them refine their strategies and make a greater positive impact on society.

Strategic Plan

Blackbaud

JANUARY 16, 2025

We are rewarded for action, even if that means mounting months and years of potentially wasteful planning, partnering, programming, and oh yes, funding, onto one idea, only to find that we missed the mark. The key here is that we usually focus on one solution. We like to represent our work like its clean, under control, and spot-on.

Logic Model