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 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. You get it.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Now, the other question is Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant proposals? Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready? To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting by David Holmes and Kristin Hanlin, Candid. by Guy Mika, Candid. by Lori Guidry, Candid.

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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. Who will implement the work?

Budget

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

How the AI Grants Hub Works Built using Notion , a user-friendly and highly customizable digital workspace tool, the AI Grants Hub is designed to be intuitive, accessible, and easy to implement. We carefully built a curated AI Prompt Library and trained a custom AI Assistant specifically for nonprofit grant writers.

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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. What a future-ready grant strategy looks like, and how Grant Writing Made Easier supports it through equity, efficiency, and relationship-driven practices.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 19, 2025

Here are a few ways to use pen and paper when you’re stuck: Mind map your proposal section, drawing connections between ideas. These five creative strategies can help you break the block and get your writing moving again. 1 Get Messy FirstThen Clean It Up Later Perfectionism is a writers worst enemy. Then, write the bad version.

Logic Model

Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

This is part three of our Writing Grants When Youre the Only One Doing It series. What Is a Grant Writing Toolkit? A Grant Writing Toolkit is a centralized place (digital or physical) where you store commonly used grant content so you can easily pull it into new proposals. Do you already use a toolkit?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

That’s why it’s essential to evaluate grant opportunities carefully before committing your limited energy and resources. Why Saying “No” Is Sometimes the Best Grant Writing Strategy In the nonprofit world, especially during economic uncertainty or funding cuts , there’s often a sense of urgency to pursue every possible grant.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Over 2,100 students have taken her grant writing courses. Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. And the reason I do this, I've done grant writing for a long time. Teresa: Okay. Wouldn't let me there.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Over 2,100 students have taken her grant writing courses. Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. In case it's your first time here, this free grant workshop is an Instrumentl partner webinar.

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

In contrast to the House’s version, the Senate bill delays or reduces some of the harshest proposals, such as capping Medicaid provider taxes more gradually and lowering the asylum fee from $1,000 to $100 after the parliamentarian struck down the higher charge. credit rating, which increases borrowing costs across the board.

Federal Grants

Tony Martignetti

OCTOBER 6, 2024

DeaRonda Harrison: Grants Readiness & Success DeaRonda Harrison helps you get ready to accept grants and shares strategies for successful grants research, writing and outcomes. Also, how to win grants quickly (it shouldn’t take years!); Also, how to win grants quickly (it shouldn’t take years!);

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Candid offers many resources to support organizations in searching for funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, and standing out among applicants. From the first phase of writing a proposal to actually receiving a check could take six to nine months. You’ll need to show potential funders your IRS letter of determination.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

All grant proposals are different. 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. Let’s get started. What is a goal?

Goals

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. When it comes to foundation grants, stay on top of your research. Develop a system where you’re sending out proposals or letters of inquiry to new foundations on a weekly basis. billion, a 1.6% Despite a 1.7%

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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 Professionals Association

JUNE 13, 2023

Is your organization grant-ready? When you’re an early-career grant writer or are building a grants program for the first time, this can be a daunting question; I know that it was for me. When it comes down to it, grant readiness comes from preparation in three main areas: Resources, Collaboration, and Alignment.

Grant Readiness

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.

SAM

Grant'd

JULY 23, 2020

And faced by this overwhelm, many grant seekers often either: (a) scramble haphazardly as they complete each application amidst the pressures of other organisational deadlines or (b) assign the task of securing grant funding to the ‘too hard’ or ‘some other time’ basket. It’s to get grants ready!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Preparation, or in the grant writer’s case “Readiness”. 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.

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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

Professional Grant Writers

MAY 22, 2025

A persuasive proposal clearly aligns with the funders goals, presents a compelling case, and supports it with evidence and impact. The post Persuasive proposals: The key to winning more grants appeared first on Professional Grant Writers.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Grant Professionals Association, (GPA) in collaboration with the Association of Fundraising Professionals, (AFP) has chosen October to highlight the ethical practices of professionals in the resource development field. Ethical practices in grants and the GPA Code of Ethics have been a cornerstone of GPA since its founding 25 years ago.

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Staying on top of your grant projects doesn’t necessarily require fancy software or the newest technology. Whether grant files, program files, or donor files – developing or maintaining a filing system that is easy to navigate is essential. Start with the basics. Registration is live!

GPC

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 23, 2023

So, what should you expect when you hire a grant consultant? Certainly, your mileage will vary depending on your organization’s grant readiness and fundraising goals, as well as the methodology your consultant employs to kick off the work. Second, everyone thinks their organization is grant ready.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

DECEMBER 18, 2020

That means that most nonprofits will need to plan accordingly when it comes to pursuing grants. One foundation told a client of mine recently that they want to see proposals for “sexy programming” again. Have a plan for what you will propose to them, even if the programming is altered or entirely virtual. Don’t worry.

Grant Writing

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

APRIL 29, 2021

That’s what this blog post is about: my top tips for improving your grant writing skills: Tip #1: READ The best way to be a great writer is to be an avid reader. Whether it’s a fiction novel, a memoir, an article, or a grant proposal you’re reviewing for a colleague, it’s all valuable. Read everything you can get your hands on.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

All the time and effort you put into designing a great project and developing a clear, well-written grant proposal has paid off and you’ve received a notice of award from the funder. Now, it’s time to ensure that you are a great steward of the grant funds that you have received. Starting organized will help you stay organized.

GPC

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It makes sense, given the most common way to describe the process is “grant writing” – which only tells part of the story. After more than 28 years in grants and fundraising, I have found that about 20% of grant writing is actual writing. Either way, those writing skills drew you in. And isn’t that what it’s all about?

Grant Writing

Fundraising HayDay

JANUARY 6, 2022

Everyone wants grant money for their organization, and why not? But to be competitive in the grant funding world, you need all your ducks in a row to ensure your organization is grant ready. Is your organization actually ready for you to write a grant, or do you need to jump through a few hoops first?

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GrantNews

MAY 23, 2024

GrantWatch lists capital funding grants that funders make available that can transform the financial foundation of any small business. What Is Capital Grant Funding? Overall, capital funding grants provide general operating funds for a business. We have a listing of Capital Funding grants ready for you!

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 14, 2023

This often leaves only a thirty- to ninety-day window to adjust plans and priorities, identify organizational projects that align with program office goals, and develop a competitive proposal. However, especially for federal grants, it is equally essential to set your organization up for post-award success during the application stage.

Federal Grants

Grant Writer Team

JULY 25, 2024

The nonprofits who set the pace are those who choose the right grant-writing partner. and one thing can take any nonprofit to the next level — a grant writer who can secure you grant funding. A nonprofit with the perfect grant writer as a partner presents a well-timed, well-executed application. Their ambition?

Organizational Budget

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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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

March Madness is in full swing, and all this talk about competition and brackets makes me think about how grant writing relates. Grants, much like professional sports, are competitive, and increasingly so. We can’t come in on gameday and put together a proposal without any preparation and expect to win big.

GPC

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 5, 2023

Ever felt bogged down by the tedious task of writing grant proposals? AI + Grant Writing = A Match Made in Heaven Artificial Intelligence (AI) is like your secret weapon for grant writing. With AI, you could be crafting your proposal in under an hour! Join me for my 7-Day, Learn to Write Grants with AI challenge.

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