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From overwhelmed to organised: How to tackle government tender submissions 

Strategic Grants

Government tender writing can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re juggling the task with other responsibilities like program delivery or fundraising. When it comes to your response, there are a few ways you can tackle this: What is the cost to the government per beneficiary or per outcome achieved? And are they measurable?

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What 2025 Grant Trends Are Teaching Nonprofits

Grant Writing Made Easy

Prepare logic models or theory of change diagrams to demonstrate how your activities lead to visual outcomes. Whether nonprofits work with schools, healthcare systems, local governments, or businesses, cross-sector partnerships are increasingly seen as essential to scaling impact and avoiding duplication of services.

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Grant Writing for Small Nonprofits: How to Do More With Less

Grant Writing Made Easy

Tailor it for different audiences—foundations, government funders, or corporate giving programs. Still, they can often take on a specific piece, like reviewing a logic model, writing a program summary, or proofreading a budget narrative. Program Descriptions: Create one-pagers or summaries for your core programs or services.

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A disturbing trend in Notices of Funding Availability (NOFOs): the incredible shrinking grant proposal

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

.** 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.

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Key Takeaways for the GWBC Session as a Seasoned Grant Professional

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

The prior is a listing of all funding opportunities from the government – ever! Diane shared helpful resources that I hadn’t come across in the past! Just a brief sampling includes two tools for prospect research: www.sam.gov and www.usaspending.gov.

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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

If you view grant proposals primarily as a way to request money to do what your organization has already decided it wants to do, your mindset is more aligned with requesting cash donations from individuals than submitting a proposal to a formal entity like a foundation or government agency. Example timeline. is the U.S.

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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

If you view grant proposals primarily as a way to request money to do what your organization has already decided it wants to do, your mindset is more aligned with requesting cash donations from individuals than submitting a proposal to a formal entity like a foundation or government agency. is the U.S.