Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: September 8, 2021 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you how to simplify, streamline, and support your team. Find and win more grants for your nonprofit! She has helped nonprofits triple their funding.

Instrumentl

RBW Strategy

JANUARY 24, 2024

A Breakdown of Each Stage in the Grant Lifecycle The grants lifecycle refers to the entire process of a grant—from planning, to opportunity, to implementation, to closeout. The lifecycle of a grant has three major stages: pre-award, award, and post-award. The recipient and grantor both have unique tasks within each stage.

Grants.Gov

Fluxx

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In today's philanthropic world, the management of grants is the decisive factor in making a difference for many needy foundations. According to a study published recently by National Philanthropic Trust, nonprofit giving from foundations amounts to $105.21

Grant Management Software

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We know many grant makers publish new funding opportunities in the spring, and using purpose-built tools to create and manage them saves organizations a lot of time and effort. Grants management software like AmpliFund gives you unlimited application forms, sections, and questions that you can use to build out applications.

Grant Management

Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

Why it pays to build relationships with nonprofit funders Grant funding plays a critical role in ensuring the survival and success of many nonprofits. Not to mention, securing these grants can be quite competitive, especially if you’re seeking funding for the very first time. However, finding these stakeholders can often be tricky.

Nonprofit

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent). Miscellaneous (3 percent). What the Organization Does (22 percent).

Application

Grants.gov

AUGUST 15, 2018

When you receive a federal grant, you are receiving taxpayer dollars with the expectation you will successfully implement a public-serving project. Such projects can range from publishing scientific research results to creating apprenticeship opportunities for underrepresented populations to providing foreign aid and democratic development.

Grant Writing

PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Describing Library Problems that Need Funding In my last post, I shared about the importance of aligning your grant application to a funding agency’s priorities. It is important that the grant application you submit have a clear problem that needs solving. Most grant applications will require that you write a statement of the problem.

Funding

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Too often, there is confusion between grants and donations in nonprofit organizations. Additional confusion can be found when major individual donors begin making donations in amounts similar to what an organization can expect to receive as a grant from a foundation. That makes it a grant. They are also about relationships.

GPC

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I am guilty of office-speak, especially that familiar standby, “Let’s get our ducks in a row,” usually when priorities begin to compete and grant deadlines are looming. I’ve found one of the best ways to keep myself from feeling overwhelmed is to invest some of my energy up front to organize tasks that support over-arching grants objectives.

Award

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Maybe your organization doesn’t have the internal expertise or time to conduct a program evaluation yourself, or a grant funder requires a third-party evaluation. As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs.

Budget

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Grant Management – manage all your incoming grants, due dates, tasks, and more. Membership Management – setup your membership programs, levels, benefits, and track your memberships within GiftWorks. These can all be found at our GiftWorks Blog !

Publishing

Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

Have you ever stopped to consider the reasons why you sign up for webinars, attain or continue to maintain your grant professional certification (GPC), or set out to learn an entirely new skill set (like project management)? The Post Award Grant Management and Compliance pathway is available now, with more in development.

GPC

Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

Education organizations, both institutions and those organizations focused on education, comprise a little over 15% of nonprofit organizations in the United States and represented over 13% of participants in the State of Grantseeking survey published by GrantStation and PhilanTech in November 2011. What is going on here?

Education

Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

Last month, over 1,300 grants professionals gathered virtually for PEAK2021. At a conference packed with grants managers, talk of data and data systems were abundant and layered. We also need funders to share their grants data directly with us through e-reporting. That’s even more relevant this year!

Conference

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

GrantStation is a set of tools and resources to help organizations identify and secure grant dollars.) Here’s how: Recency: We survey grantseekers, grant writers, and those involved in the grantseeking universe twice a year (spring and fall). Is it location or focus, or both, that affects grant dollars?

Grantstation

Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Community Improvement and Capacity Building: Fewer Grant Awards. of survey participants cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011 by GrantStation and PhilanTech). As always, if you use staff time to try to secure grant awards, staff have to leave behind their daily duties. Fewer Resources Hurt Most.

Grantstation

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In addition to their relatively traditional offerings of training, legal advice, and grant management, STGM and TechSoup Turkey will focus on supporting digital empowerment.

Training

Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

Despite many challenges, nonprofits retain a sense of optimism about the next six months according to the survey results cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011). State Grants Still Go to Arts and Humanities. Despite Challenges, Arts Organizations Remain Optimistic.

Grantstation

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Leveraging Salesforce’s powerful cloud-based technology, Nonprofit Cloud offers a suite of tools designed to enhance donor management, streamline operations, and boost fundraising efforts.

Software

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A “Throwback Tuesday” post to one of my most popular grant writing guides. It's my complete A-Z guide to grant writing 101. It was a popular post when it was first published and since I've recently had an influx of new readers and subscribers to my blog, I thought it might be time to bring it back for another look.

Grant

Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Transparency in grants administration means being open to scrutiny about your grants administration processes. Transparency also provides assurance that your grants administration is being carried out appropriately and in accordance with any applicable requirements. Achieving Transparency in Grants Administration.

Ethics

ProposalPRO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Federal agencies are working on structural issues that will affect grant-making, grant management, and grant-writing for many years to come. What Does This Mean for Grant Seekers? The effort to reform the grants process is picking up steam.

Government