Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Your staff are up to their eyeballs in program operations and other work to grow your mission. Doing your foundation or government grants keep falling off the bottom of the list, impacting your grant proposal submissions. This is especially true if you are interested in a federal or state government grant.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

One first-year nonprofit we worked with secured $400,000 in private grants within six months and then landed a $1 million local government grant. What does a grant consultant cost? The average cost of hiring a full-time grant writer can be upwards of $90,000 including salary and benefits. Even new organizations have seen major success.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

One first-year nonprofit we worked with secured $400,000 in private grants within six months and then landed a $1 million local government grant. What does a grant consultant cost? The average cost of hiring a full-time grant writer can be upwards of $90,000 including salary and benefits. Even new organizations have seen major success.

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Consultant Consulting Consulting Grants 100

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

The grant writer cost in 2025 varies widely depending on experience, project type, and scope of work. This setup helps everyone – organizations can budget exactly, while writers get rewarded for working efficiently. Some writers need 50% upfront and 50% at completion, while others send monthly bills based on finished work.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

Create a template The first step in the budgeting process is to set up your budget template. Unless the proposal requires a very simple budget that must be embedded into the narrative as a small table, it works best to develop the budget in Excel or a similar spreadsheet tool, such as Google Sheets.

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Budget Grants Grant Proposal 69

Peak Proposals

AUGUST 1, 2023

This is the approach government agencies take. For government opportunities that remain open for several years, there may not be a fixed deadline for sending in questions. government agencies use a proposal submission platform that adds page numbers to the file, and applicants are told to not number the pages.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 30, 2023

For more senior-level jobs, the job description might list “lead the development and submission of grant applications to relevant foundations, government agencies, and corporations in collaboration with business development and executive staff.” Additionally, many funder-specific courses will include templates for standard proposal sections.

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