Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

By creating a culture of shared ownership around grants, you will reduce your stress and create more accurate, compelling proposals that reflect the full depth of your organization’s work. Use Simple Tools to Save Time with Grant Writing for Small Nonprofits You don’t need an expensive grant management platform to stay organized.

Grant Writing

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 learned that grant professionals work in various environments as employees, contractors and business owners. Instead, it was a holiday dinner.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2025

When the budget doesn’t align with the story you’re telling—or worse, contradicts it—it sends a clear message to reviewers: this organization may not be ready to manage grant funding effectively. Outdated grant budgets for nonprofits don’t just look lazy to funders.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Will we need to hire, train, or contract new support to fulfill the grant? Does our team have experience managing grants of this size or scope? When you evaluate grant opportunities with intention, you spend less time spinning your wheels and more time writing proposals that are likely to succeed.

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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. It’s about creating a grant-writing environment where you can actually focus. It’s a lack of infrastructure.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

These are collaborations between Instrumentl and community partners to provide free educational opportunities for grant professionals featuring problems that they often have to solve while also sharing different ways that Instrumentl's platform can help grant writers win more grants. instrumentl.com/teresa.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

ClickUp or Trello Organize grant tasks, deadlines, and key resources in a project management tool. Physical Storage (Best for Paper Docs & Quick Notes) A dedicated grant binder with printed copies of key information. Notion or Evernote Store reusable text, templates, and key data all in one place.

Grant Writing

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

☐ Is the grant award amount realistic for your organization? These small nonprofit organizations may want to avoid these types of grants and focus on funders with more manageable requirements. AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Our goal is essentially to tackle some sort of problem that you guys often have to solve for while sharing different ways that Instrumentl's platform can help grant writers win more grants. If you want to bring grant prospecting, tracking, and management to one place, we can help you do that. Instrumentl.com/teresa.

Instrumentl

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 2, 2025

We will combine this information with the research in our annual compensation report and from other research to provide you with a unique tool to manage your career path. We will continue our work to create learning paths within GrantSchool, including our next one on Grant Readiness for your organization or those you serve.

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Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

However, many organizations are unprepared for the multitude of regulations and requirements associated with managing federally funded programs. Understand Your Organization’s Capacity Your organization should consider these four components before applying for any grant, especially those connected to federal dollars.

Grant Readiness

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.

Grant Readiness

Instrumentl

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Discover your grant readiness profile with expert Jennifer McKenzie. Learn four key ways to assess your organization's preparedness, build effective grant strategies, and streamline your grant management using Instrumentl to save time and money.

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.

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Grant'd

JULY 23, 2020

But take it from us, the solution is so simple that once you realize what it is, accessing that pool of $80b in grant funding will become not only possible and realistic, but also a process that is easily managed and negotiated. It’s to get grants ready! every 6-12 months so that you can maintain your grant readiness.

Grant Readiness

RBW Strategy

JUNE 3, 2024

Due to the firm’s knowledge of federal grant compliance, Maryland Nonprofits requested our team to train county-level agencies and nonprofit organizations on federal grant compliance and management, which was well received.

Federal Grants

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Often when grant professionals come into new roles, they are responsible for standing up the new grant management function at their organization. If this includes the capacity to manage grants with a federal origin, the task can be daunting.

Grant Management

Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I have been in chat rooms and webinars with people who are new to the grants profession and have been asked to stand up the grants management function for their organization. I spent many years as a successful grant professional and managed grants that were not from public sources.

Grant Management

GrantNews

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What is Donor-Centric Management? Donor-centric management is a functional fund raising concept. Donor-centric management practices perpetually maximize donations while improving your donor retention, boosting your reputation, and extending your organizations ability to help your cause. Bad reviews do not go away easily.

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Candid

AUGUST 15, 2024

These articles explain, for example, how to overcome fundraising challenges during an election year, how to make sure your nonprofit is “grant-ready,” and how even the smallest nonprofits can get noticed by potential donors and build those relationships. Is your nonprofit organization ‘grant-ready’?

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

*Diane’s note: You are used to our team talking about how both pre-award and post-award work connect to create an organization’s overall grant readiness. In fact, we were just talking about this in our most recent webinar about How to Be Exceptionally Grant Ready with Lucy Morgan from MyFedTrainer.com. Accounting Tools.

Grant Management

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Staying on top of your grant projects doesn’t necessarily require fancy software or the newest technology. Data or donor management systems are excellent tools, but you only get out of them what you put in. Managing your email is critical to staying organized. Keep your inbox clean. Registration is live!

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GrantNews

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Just in time for February, you can gift this book to a teacher, grant writer, executive director, or manager of a nonprofit. A Little Bit of Heart and Soul In addition to my own personal narrative, I have compiled an extensive list of answers to common grant-related questions.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 3, 2024

Expect to see nonprofits and businesses adopt modern business trends to manage their organizations due to the increase in organizations utilizing cutting-edge tools like GrantWatch , AI, and social media. Many nonprofit organizations implement donor-centric management into their organizations daily management routine to maximize donations.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

” Time management has long been heralded as the solution to our increasingly busy lives. But what if the real challenge isn’t managing our minutes and hours? Dive deep into understanding the real resources you should be managing, and discover how a comprehensive approach can lead to a more balanced, fulfilled life.

Management

GrantNews

JANUARY 3, 2024

Expect to see nonprofits and businesses adopt modern business trends to manage their organizations due to the increase in organizations utilizing cutting-edge tools like GrantWatch , AI, and social media. Many nonprofit organizations implement donor-centric management into their organizations daily management routine to maximize donations.

Nonprofit

Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

” Time management has long been heralded as the solution to our increasingly busy lives. But what if the real challenge isn’t managing our minutes and hours? Dive deep into understanding the real resources you should be managing, and discover how a comprehensive approach can lead to a more balanced, fulfilled life.

Management

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Many workshop attendees admit that two days ago their boss told them to start looking for and writing grants because they needed money for their organization. Typically, the individuals writing and managing grants for your organization are not people with titles like grant administrator, grant manager, or director of grants.

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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.

GPC

Sharpshooter Communications

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Are you grant ready? As a 35+ year veteran of nonprofits, including the last 17 years as a full time grant consultant, I have celebrated many successes and cried over some spectacular failures. There are some specific reasons and I break them into two main categories: Grant Readiness and Grant Strategy.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The GPA Code of Ethics outlines the importance of proper and fair compensation for the work that grant professionals do in researching, preparing proposals, and managing grant funds.

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 14, 2023

Project managers, technical subject matter experts, financial management, HR professionals, and others who will be directly involved in overseeing the grant’s execution make valuable contributions during proposal development and revisions. Author Bio: Miranda Wojciechowski, Ph.D. GPC Competencies: 2, 3, 5, 8

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

Practice (Grant Readiness) Once a team is developed, practice is where you develop and perfect all the plays and roles required for game day. Before pursuing grants, your team needs to understand and assess its grant readiness. Another critical factor – a manageable deadline!

GPC

Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

government or private grants, individual donations, in-kind gifts, volunteers) to achieve their missions, and small organizations often grapple with how to compete in a market publicly dominated by their larger counterparts. One way is to invest time and effort in managing your brand. Your brand is more than your logo.

GPC

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is a broad overview of what you need to know about SoS Funding: This fund is meant to support shuttered venues, including live performing arts organizations and those who produce performing arts This is for costs incurred March 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021 Supplemental grants may be issued for costs incurred from March 1, 2020 – June (..)

Funding

Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Grant Management Considerations Understanding and following tracking procedures for outcomes, time and effort, and procurement are key to maintaining ethical practices when preparing an application and managing grant funds.

Ethics

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

Beyond Grant Writing: How AI Can Transform Your Nonprofit Leadership But AI doesn’t stop at grant writing. If you’re leading a nonprofit, AI can be your virtual assistant, handling everything from setting up meetings to managing budgets.

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