Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Doing your foundation or government grants keep falling off the bottom of the list, impacting your grant proposal submissions. A great grant consultant should support the work of your existing team. What is the process to work with a grant consultant? What to look for in a grant consultant team?

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

That can overwhelm grant writing for small nonprofits, but it doesn’t have to. With a clear strategy and a few innovative systems, even the smallest teams can write competitive, compelling grant proposals. It spreads your limited time and resources too thin, often resulting in rushed, unfocused proposals that don’t stand out.

Grant Writing

Grant Writer Team

JUNE 12, 2025

Grants offer essential, non-repayable funding opportunities, and GrantWriterTeam knows how to help you locate and apply to grant opportunities for your cause. However, a strong, strategic application can set your proposal apart. What Do Grant-Makers Look for in Grant Applications?

Applicant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

Whether you’re new to grant writing or looking to sharpen your budgeting strategy, avoiding these five common mistakes can help you submit clearer, more fundable proposals—and set your organization up for success. But here’s the truth: grant budgets for nonprofits are just as important as the words on the page.

Budget

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

The grant writer cost in 2025 varies widely depending on experience, project type, and scope of work. Rates for simple foundation proposals typically range from $300 to $3,000, while complex federal grants may require significantly higher investments. Grant writers can’t control whether an application succeeds.

Grant

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Budgeting Creating a grant budget that aligns with your nonprofits annual budget is essential for maintaining financial stability and ensuring resources are distributed effectively. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.

Finance

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

The AI Grants Hub™ integrates your core narratives, past proposals, and data. Myth #2: Using AI Will Make Your Proposals Lack Authenticity and Human Empathy Another real fear: “If everyone uses AI, won’t all proposals start to sound the same?” In a system like the AI Grants Hub ™ , grant readiness becomes built-in.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

And if your grant calendar lives in one place, your tasks in another, your drafts in a hidden folder, and your funder research on sticky notes… of course, your strategy is falling apart. Let’s talk about why that happens and, more importantly, how to fix it with a smarter, more sustainable grant writing system.

AI

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In addition to the successes, thoughtful consideration of the challenges faced can help you gain insights into areas where you need more training or different systems to ensure smoother grant processes. Discern what you can from unfunded grant proposals and feedback from grant reviewers or program officers to determine areas of improvement.

GPCI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

Annual Funding Tracker : Develop a year-round pipeline strategy to ensure your grant calendar is both proactive and intentional. Standard Grant Narrative : A professionally written, AI-ready narrative explicitly tailored to your organization, allowing you to create targeted applications rapidly.

AI

Bloom Grant Consulting

JUNE 9, 2025

top of page HOME ABOUT OUR TEAM VALUES CLIENTS FAQ SERVICES ONGOING SUPPORT BLOSSOM BUNDLE PROSPECT RESEARCH GRANT CALENDAR BLOG RESOURCES CONTACT More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. All Posts Nonprofit Sustainability Grant Writing Prospect Research Cultivation Work With Us Search Ask Jacquee: What is Cultivation?

Grant Calendar

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And number one step back and evaluate your grant proposals. And number three, how can you think more creatively about your grant applications? Essentially Teresa has a grant readiness audit that is gonna be really useful when assessing stacking yourself up to these respective mistakes that we've talked about today.

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GrantNews

MARCH 14, 2025

In truth, grants can cover salaries and operations for vital programs missioned to impact causes like social justice, clean water, education, and more. For example, grant-seekers use the Grants Calendar to schedule grant application submissions. Explore various grants designed to help fund and expand your mission.

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GrantNews

APRIL 3, 2025

To illustrate, grants cover salaries and operations for critical programs driven to combat human trafficking and more. It is vital to search for grants regularly. Above all, a well-planned grant pipeline ensures a long-term impact on your cause! Furthermore, grant-seekers who use the Grants Calendar can stay on top of deadlines.

Grant

GrantNews

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Additionally, avoid those who guarantee you will receive the grant being sought. Just applying for a grant NEVER guarantees you will win the grant. Grants have specific requirements in order to apply. The team at GrantWatch has put together a checklist to follow to help when determining the legitimacy of a grant.

Grant

GrantNews

JANUARY 16, 2024

Was your grant application rejected? To be honest, you should never be discouraged if a proposal is rejected. There is always a learning curve when you are applying for grants. There are many reasons grant proposals are denied funding. Each grant process is different, based on the funder.

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GrantNews

APRIL 18, 2024

To build a personalized grant watchlist, use the My Grant Alerts feature to create alerts for grants of interest. Using My Grant Views you can review the GrantWatch ID#, deadline date, and the date you previously viewed each grant. For democracy projects, the focus is national.

Grant

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Nonprofits should be prepared to demonstrate data-driven results and outcomes in their proposals. Embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) DEI is becoming a critical factor in grant decisions. Ensure your nonprofit’s DEI efforts are well-documented and highlighted in your grant proposals. Enhance Proposal Quality 4.1

Grant Writing

GrantNews

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Additionally, avoid those who guarantee you will receive the grant being sought. Just applying for a grant does NOT guarantee you will win the funding. Grants have specific requirements in order to apply. Once submitted, your proposal still needs to undergo a review by the funding source, in what is often a competitive process.

Grant

GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then, keep track of your Grant View History using My Grant Views. Use this feature to view the GrantWatch ID#, deadline date, and the date you viewed each grant. Finally, personalize your My Grant Calendar to plan out your future grant applications and organize upcoming deadlines.

Grant

GrantNews

MAY 15, 2024

In the United States alone, there are more than 750 community foundations dedicated to providing grant funding sources. While many of them operate through competitive grant processes and issue Requests for Proposals, they also manage numerous donor-advised funds. Applying for grants is hard work.

Funding

Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 3, 2024

There are many different tools and tactics to reset your grant strategy. My process starts with gathering essential materials including: (1) Agency’s updated strategic plan, (2) Agency’s updated annual budget, and (3) Last year’s grant calendar. Identify gaps and new grant opportunities. Review current funders.

Readiness

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

Over the years, I have learned that our number one job as grant professionals is educating up. And by that, I mean teaching your boss, board members, and colleagues what grants can and cannot do. And the next time someone shows up with a grant, you “just have to write” ask a few questions before moving forward. If yes, then….

Grant

Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 11, 2024

So, your grant application was rejected. There are a lot of reasons grant proposals may be denied funding and most of them are because of simple mistakes. When you are learning to write grants there is quite a learning curve. Do not be surprised if your first or even your tenth grant proposal is not awarded.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 1, 2024

Grant Calendar: Create a grant calendar that lists all potential funding opportunities. Benchmarking: Benchmark your client’s projects against successful grant applications in similar fields to refine your proposals. This can help you tailor each new application to better meet funder expectations.

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GrantNews

JUNE 9, 2024

Hide Ineligible Grants Say goodbye to clutter with GrantWatch’s Hide Grants feature. Click the eye icon to hide irrelevant grants and focus on the opportunities most relevant to your organization. Personalized Grant Calendar Keep your grant applications on track with My Grant Calendar from GrantWatch.

Grant Calendar

GrantNews

JULY 10, 2024

Understand the Needs of the Grant Provider Put yourself in the shoes of the funder. Understand their goals and craft your proposal to align with their objectives. Seek Feedback If your grant isn’t accepted, ask for feedback. Many funders will provide insights that can help you improve future proposals.

Grant Writing

Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Taking every new opportunity – create a process to identify a good prospect to avoid jumping at every new opportunity when the grant calendar is already full. Create a go, no-go matrix to evaluate new grant opportunities that will help inform leadership or board members when it’s not a good fit.

Burnout

Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 11, 2024

Was your grant application rejected? There are many reasons grant proposals are denied funding. When you are learning to apply for a grant there is a learning curve. Do not be discouraged if your grant proposal is not awarded. Contact the grant funder if you need to ask for any specific details not listed.

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Grant Consulting Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Grant development is a process that involves multiple steps. When you’re writing a proposal for a grant, your goal is to explain the need in the community and your organization’s vision to solve the need to the potential funders. After reviewing and submitting the proposal, there is still a waiting period for the determination.

Proposal

PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

AUGUST 28, 2020

Grant Prospect Research: Eight Places to Look Author: Judy Riffle, Ed.D This sage advice applies to grant prospect research also. When researching and making a fundraising plan of attack, a grant calendar should be created and updated regularly. Most public libraries allow you to browse FDO for free.

Grant

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 7, 2023

After extensive prospect research, we had identified this opportunity and added it to the grants calendar. It wasn’t the right time for that particular grant, but we agreed to prepare for next year’s cycle and focus on other smaller-scale proposals with shorter grant cycles as they ironed out details on the huge facility project.

Grant

Grant'd

MAY 31, 2020

We also recommend creating a grants calendar using our six steps so you can avoid those 11th hour grant writing sprints! Solution: Make sure that your budgets match with what you’re proposing. Solution: Never make up funding asks on the fly. This will empower you in building a crystal clear case for funding.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

will help you prepare the basic documents needed to write compelling letters of inquiry and grant proposals. Make your grant proposals sparkle. On September 21 , learn how to build a winning grants strategy. Build a winning grants strategy.

Grantstation

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough. Reference your proposal and reporting plan. Collect necessary and relevant data.

Grant

Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2017

will help you prepare the basic documents needed to write compelling letters of inquiry and grant proposals. Make your grant proposals sparkle. On September 21 , learn how to build a winning grants strategy. Build a winning grants strategy.

Grantstation

Grant'd

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In additions to supporting both pilot and existing programs, Perpetual also offers capacity building and operational funding – an opportunity rarely seen in the grant-making sector! Make no mistake; this is one of the most tantalising opportunities on the yearly grant calendars of many non-profits.

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