Fundraising HayDay

MAY 29, 2025

Whats the first step of the grant writing process? In what might be a shocking turn of events, its not grant writing. So many organizations skip the grant readiness step, and that is to their detriment. In what might be a shocking turn of events, its not grant writing.

Grant Readiness

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

For so many nonprofit professionals and grant writing consultants, the issue isn’t a lack of intention. This is especially true for those on small teams or managing grants alongside a dozen other responsibilities. But let’s be clear: while a calendar is helpful, it isn’t a grant strategy. It’s a lack of infrastructure.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Understanding how your organization makes grant submission decisions is critical. Do You Have Strong Support from the Grants Team?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

But when it comes to grant writing, your budget isn’t just an attachment or requirement to fulfill. Grant budgets are a crucial part of the story you’re telling funders. For better or worse, your budget can make or break your chances of funding, despite the quality of the grant narrative itself.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The client felt confident putting the funder on their own grant calendar for the upcoming year, allowing me to focus my time on another funding priority because they were sure that the foundation would continue its support. By researching funders, you can discover the information you need to tailor your grant application to the funder.

GPC

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

Id like to say that learning the principles of grant management, professional development opportunities and fruitful networking sold me on GPA. I was seamlessly enfolded into the group, welcomed with a beverage and good conversation, which ranged from shop talk to the regions grant landscape to simple laughter- filled mirth.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 19, 2025

These five creative strategies can help you break the block and get your writing moving again. Set a timer for 10 minutes and write everything you know about the sectionfast, unfiltered, and messy. Then, write the bad version. 2 Talk It Out When the writing wont come, try saying it out loud instead. Why does this work?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Ever feel like philanthropy is entering a new era, but your grant writing process is stuck in 2005? Why most nonprofit grant writing is falling behind, missing the mark. Why Most Grant Writing Practices Have Stalled Many nonprofits and even consultants are still writing grants like it’s 2005.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Evaluate Your Organization’s Grant Readiness Funders want to partner with organizations that are capable and prepared. Assess your current readiness for this specific grant and communicate any systems you have in place for tracking outcomes, managing funds, and reporting.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Published: March 2, 2022 Grant Writing Classes Table of Contents SHOW MORE SHOW LESS Return to top Want to go from Rejected to Accepted? ​In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you 9 reasons your grants are getting rejected, and how to fix them. Look no further! Teresa: Okay.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Whether you’re a solo grant writer or part of a small, multitasking team, developing a clear process to evaluate grant opportunities can help you write stronger proposals, avoid burnout, and focus on the funding that truly supports your mission. It can be tempting to stretch your programming to match a funder’s interests.

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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.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Executive orders, delayed disbursements, judicial interventions, and administrative overhauls have left grant writers navigating what experts are calling a “ tsunami of uncertainty. ” In this federal grant update, we’ll break down what’s changing, what’s at risk, and how you can adapt your grant writing strategy to stay resilient.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Readiness is all about preparing your organization to write a grant proposal and creating a strategy for ensuring you are pursuing the right funding sources to help your organization meet its mission. Here are 5 tips for grant writing readiness. Program/ Project: Describe your program or project in detail.

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

APRIL 29, 2021

Whether you’re a newbie to grant writing or you’re a veteran in the nonprofit grant writing arena, no one should ever really be done improving and learning. You also need to talk about the much less obvious stuff that can help you really hone your grant writing chops. After all, it’s a journey, right?

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Looking for the biggest key trends in grant writing for 2021? It’s almost the New Year (thank goodness and good riddance to the dumpster fire that is 2020) and that means a whole new year of grants! That means that most nonprofits will need to plan accordingly when it comes to pursuing grants. Look no further.

Grant Writing

RBW Strategy

JUNE 3, 2024

RBW Strategy has partnered with Maryland Nonprofits since 2020 on several grant projects and grant trainings, to support the organization, component organizations under its umbrella, and its member entities. All of this support has helped build the organization’s grant-seeking capacity.

Federal Grants

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

MARCH 4, 2021

If you’ve ever read any of my other articles you probably already know how much importance I place on being “grant ready”. For those of you who don’t know, I recommend reading up on grant readiness, particularly if you are a newer or smaller nonprofit. You can use my Grant Readiness Toolkit to help you get it done.

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Professional Grant Writers

APRIL 18, 2023

Grant writing can be a time-consuming and complex process, and many organizations opt to hire a grant writer to help them secure funding. The post How much does it cost to hire a grant writer? appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Most people fall into grant writing almost by chance. Maybe someone recognized your writing skills and voila! Either way, those writing skills drew you in. It makes sense, given the most common way to describe the process is “grant writing” – which only tells part of the story. You were “voluntold.”

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Organizational development plays a crucial role in the process of becoming grant-ready by providing the foundation and framework necessary to effectively pursue and manage grant funding. It provides the essential infrastructure, capabilities, and processes needed to become [and stay] grant-ready. Mayer Consulting.

Grant Readiness

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 21, 2022

Most of the grant writing advice out there elevates one or two actions as quick fixes. I want to help you break out of the quick fix mindset and start building a winning grant strategy. In this video, I cover: +Why following most grant writing advice you hear online isn’t going to get you the funding you need. +The

Grant Writing

GrantNews

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If your goal is to write grants, my greatest hope is that this book will teach you and become an integral part of your granting writing toolkit. What’s more, I am confident that with the instruction you gain, it will help you become a more successful grant writer and entrepreneur.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 5, 2022

When I founded my grant writing consultancy back in 2015, I knew that I wanted to serve the small nonprofits that make a big impact in our communities. That’s the whole reason I got into teaching grant writing online – this is a system that needs to go. I want to help you get the grant funding you need and deserve.

Grant Writing

Red Tape Busters

JANUARY 26, 2024

But before you dive into the world of grant applications, it’s essential to ensure that you’re grant ready. In this article, we’ll explore what it means to be grant ready, the key elements involved, and why seeking help from a grant writing consultant can significantly boost your chances of success.

Grant Readiness

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

Every day is a new challenge, a new grant to write, a new initiative to launch. AI: The Ultimate Sidekick for Nonprofit Work AI can be your sidekick, taking over the tedious bits of grant writing, like research, program design, drafting, and revising proposals. In this chaos, rest often feels like an absurd concept.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2023

This transition holds particular promise for individuals in specialized writing fields like grant writing, where conventional roles offer limited potential for growth and less than a living wage. In the grant writing field, the shift to independent work is becoming increasingly appealing.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 30, 2022

This is my favorite holiday, and in honor, I’m sharing 10 grant writing tips to help you make sure your grants aren’t the scariest thing this spooky season. #1: 1: Keep a grant prospect sheet & update it regularly. One of the best things you can do is to make time regularly to search for grant opportunities.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 19, 2023

Introduction In the world of nonprofits, grant writing is both a lifeline and a challenge. Enter AI solutions like ChatGPT – a powerful tool that can significantly streamline your grant writing workflow. It can be an invaluable aid in making your grant writing process smoother, quicker, and more efficient.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 5, 2023

AI + Grant Writing = A Match Made in Heaven Artificial Intelligence (AI) is like your secret weapon for grant writing. Quality**: AI has learned from countless successful grant proposals. Learning**: As you use AI, you’ll pick up valuable grant writing skills. You’re not alone.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2023

I’m coming at you today with some real talk about my journey running this crazy, amazing venture – Grant Writing Made Easy. Eight years of grant consulting, developing online education courses , drinking way too much coffee, and learning a whole bunch of lessons along the way. But let me give you the lowdown.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Future Regarding the future of our signature course, Grant Writing Made Easy, we’ve carefully considered it over the past year. During this time, I also needed the opportunity to explore and contemplate the next phase of grant writing. Initially, I announced its closure on Dec.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 16, 2023

That’s why implementing effective strategies can help you improve your work with grant writing clients and ensure that you deliver the best possible results. In this blog post, we will explore five practical and personalized ways to streamline your grant writing process and maximize your clients’ chances of success.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 7, 2023

As a seasoned grant writing consultant, I’ve been privileged to learn the ropes of this unique, highly-demanding, and satisfying profession over the years. Today, let’s tackle a subject that I frequently encounter: How to get started with your very own grant writing business? Network, Network, Network!

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 21, 2023

With AI’s rapid advancement, the landscape of traditional roles is changing, not least in technical and grant writing. Here’s how you can ready yourself for the coming changes and ensure your skills remain relevant. As we approach an era where AI can perform complex tasks, it’s prudent for us to prepare and adapt.

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But regardless of what type of proposals you may be working on at this moment in time, there is one thing I can say with certainty: You will run into proposals that ask you to write out the goals, objectives, and outcomes for your program or project. Don’t overthink writing them. Let’s look at some examples. How much did it increase?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Anytime I lead a grant writing workshop, I always ask the attendees to share their grant experience – whether they’ve been a grant professional for years and are looking for a refresher or if they’ve been voluntold that grants are now under their preview. Take the time ensure your organization is grant ready.

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