Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Its two weeks before a federal grant deadline , and you just learned about the opportunity and that you are eligible to apply for grant funding. Before you know it, its been months since anyone has applied for any funding. When new funding opportunities come along, they often dont have the additional bandwidth to pursue them.

Grant Writing

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. Build a Reusable Grant Template Library for Grant Writing Writing every grant proposal from scratch?

Grant Writing

CauseVox

JANUARY 8, 2025

Take Neil Squires campaign for example, $5 funds wires and jacks to adapt a toy for a child with a disability, while $50 provides an accessible toy and a switch (which makes an existing battery-powered toy accessible). Larger amounts, like $1,000, can fund an entire build-a-thon event. Ready to design a page that delivers results?

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

For better or worse, your budget can make or break your chances of funding, despite the quality of the grant narrative itself. 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.

Budget

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE, is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Unlike a new grant writer that takes time to hire and train, Alex and her team are ready to step in to support your fundraising team today.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 16, 2025

This Facebook help article for nonprofits shows you exactly how to get started with Facebook and Instagram ads to increase awareness of your organization and raise funds for your cause. Read more: Write the BEST Nonprofit Mission Statement: 15 Examples + Free Template 2. Ready to Grow Your Nonprofit’s Reach?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

We’re here to debunk the top AI myths, explore how ethical AI grant writing tools can boost your efficiency, and discuss why AI-driven grant strategy is the future of grant readiness. You’ll get a fully customized grants system, tailored to your programs, funding strategy, and team needs. You don’t need to teach it every time.

Grant Writing

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE , is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Unlike a new grant writer that takes time to hire and train, Alex and her team are ready to step in to support your fundraising team today.

Consulting

Blackbaud

MAY 5, 2025

But when deadlines get missed and reviews take longer than expected, that delays getting funds to your grantees. Establish, document, and implement evaluation criteria that reflect your mission and funding program guidelines. It can also keep you from attracting and funding great initiatives. Processes and technology change.

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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

Blackbaud

JUNE 5, 2025

Have we experienced any funding losses, or do we expect any major changes? This may include donations, grants, fundraising events, government funding, and even small affiliate programs through your local grocery store. Provide them with a standardized budget template to simplify the process and encourage consistency.

Budget

Blackbaud

JANUARY 10, 2025

The traditional one-year grant cycle has created a funding hamster wheel that often keeps grantees heads-down on applications to avoid a gap in revenue. The growth of trust-based philanthropy principles with multi-year, unrestricted funds is starting to shift organizations from that scarcity mindset to one of abundance.

Award

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.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2025

When your team is small, it’s vital that you focus on building strong workflows using templates, outsourcing, and automation to keep your team from being overwhelmed and overworked. Having good partners like Get Fully Funded and Auctria is key to a small team’s success! Thankfully, that’s not true!

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GiveSmart

DECEMBER 3, 2024

You should also use any text message templates provided by your vendor. This framing gives donors a tangible sense of purpose behind their donation and checks needed things off your list. Marketing Ideas Digital Impact Report You likely have your annual impact report ready, but have you considered sending it digitally ?

Goals

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2025

When your team is small, it’s vital that you focus on building strong workflows using templates, outsourcing, and automation to keep your team from being overwhelmed and overworked. Having good partners like Get Fully Funded and Auctria is key to a small team’s success! Thankfully, that’s not true!

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Blackbaud

JULY 29, 2025

Are you ready to make the most of it? Mary Katlyn MacMaster, Development and Database Coordinator Washington’s National Park Fund energizes its community on GivingTuesday with peer-to-peer fundraising. Ready to Elevate Your Year-End Strategy? In 2024, we surpassed our end-of-year appeal by $30K! The direct ask really helped.”

Media

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. Why It Matters Funder alignment is a top decision factor: Reviewers want to fund projects that advance their mission. The good news? Most of these common grant proposal errors are fixable.

Proposal

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Enter the H2gO Challenge, a month-long, fully virtual event that invites supporters to walk in solidarity with East African women and girls, learn more about the water crisis, and raise funds for impactful solutions. Ready to Run Your Own Peer-to-Peer Challenge? Rotating facts like: “2.2B added depth and urgency to the experience.

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The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

Planning events is essential for nonprofits, whether youre raising funds, building awareness, or forging new community connections. Utilize Budgeting Tools: Consider using budgeting templates or software designed for nonprofits. Crowdfunding platforms can also help you raise funds in advance.

Budget

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Regardless of the pricing model, it’s essential to note that paying a grant writer based on a percentage of awarded funds is both unethical and prohibited by industry standards. Most funders don’t allow grant funds to pay for grant writing expenses. Organizations might have to return all awarded money plus penalties.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

Thats where a Grant Writing Toolkit comes ina collection of reusable content, data, and templates that make the grant writing process faster, smoother, and less overwhelming. Instead of scrambling for details every time, youll have the essentials ready to go. Statement of Need A general version that you can tailor for each proposal.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 21, 2025

What if you didn’t have to reinvent your narrative each time you applied for funding? Starting from scratch for every grant can undermine your chances of securing funding. You’re not just trying to meet a word count, you’re trying to build a persuasive, data-backed case for funding. Request a free discovery call here.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Scattered deadlines, disjointed documents, and disconnected systems make it nearly impossible to stay on top of funding opportunities strategically. The Hub stores, organizes, and seamlessly integrates your calendar, task management, funder data, proposal drafts, templates, and AI-powered support. This isn’t just about being organized.

AI

Grant Writer Team

JULY 31, 2025

As a grant writer, you can help fund community programs, educational initiatives, and life-changing services. Plus, the work can be steady, with many organizations seeking long-term support for recurring projects and funding cycles. Grant writing stands out as one of the few freelance paths that blends purpose with independence.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

MAY 12, 2025

Invest in a fund accounting system with budget management capabilities, such as automated workflows, real-time tracking, and centralized documentation management. Provide training each year to review best practices, highlight common issues, and address functionality updates in your fund accounting system.

Budget

Candid

JULY 7, 2025

Federal funding for nonprofits is in a state of flux, and the future of many government grantmaking programs is uncertain. That said, as discussed in our recent webinar, Funding Beyond Federal: How to Diversify Funding to Ensure Stability in Uncertain Times, there are ways to bolster your nonprofit’s financial stability in current times.

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Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

Consider how a small environmental nonprofit transformed its future with just three bequests in its first year of planned giving: these gifts secured enough funding to protect 250 acres of critical habitat in perpetuity. Yet, many nonprofits hesitate to launch their own planned giving program, assuming they lack the expertise or resources.

Policy

Blackbaud

APRIL 7, 2025

These budgets incorporate the funds they collect as well as income provided by the larger school budget. Restricted Project Budget: Your school may have a budget specifically for a restricted set of funds. On top of that, you have to manage the mix of restricted and unrestricted funding, each with its own rules and limitations.

Budget

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 29, 2025

Blog Summary: The article provides a comprehensive guide for schools looking to raise funds in 2025. Virtual Fundraisers: 100% Contactless andScalable Virtual fundraisers are a game-changer for schools in 2025, offering a hands-free way to raise funds without face-to-face selling. Variety drives sales by giving buyers moreoptions.

Fundraising

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

And yet, theyre also some of the most lucrative, prestigious, and transformational funding opportunities out there. Keeping a Federal-Ready folder with: Updated resumes Letters of support/MOUs SAM registration DUNS/UEI number Indirect cost rate agreement Leveraging past applicationsyours or from similar orgsas templates.

Federal Grants

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2025

It’s especially treacherous for those responsible for securing critical funds to support their organization’s mission. Imagine never having to rewrite a proposal from scratch, frantically search for past documents, or scramble for outdated templates again. Ready to break free from burnout once and for all?

Burnout

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

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over 2,100 students have taken her grant writing courses. They may say, yeah, we fund anywhere in the US. I've had that happen before and we ended up getting funding because I evaluated all these factors.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Stay updated on grants Stay updated on grants Join 10K+ grant pros already receiving our 5-minute free newsletter , packed with grant strategies , networking events and new funding opportunities. Read Ebook Watch Now Insights Straight To Your Inbox Access data on the grant funding landscape. Find and win more grants for your nonprofit!

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GiveSmart

APRIL 2, 2025

Offset Federal Funding Freezes While optimism is ever present among nonprofits, the federal funding freezes have a catastrophic, far-reaching impact. Were also bringing you more examples of others finding success during this time and offering dozens of free templates and other resources to help your organization power its mission.

Federal Grants

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over thousands of students have taken her grant writing courses, and she also happens to host the Grant Writing Simplified podcast. You've got to go deep and stay deep until you're ready to come back up.

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