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How Nonprofits Should Measure Impact and ROI Before Submitting Grant Proposals

Just Write Grants

Calculate anticipated expenses and projected outcomes to create a “cost per outcome” metric (e.g., Highlight these metrics in your proposal to build funder confidence in your financial stewardship. Evaluate Your Organization’s Grant Readiness Funders want to partner with organizations that are capable and prepared.

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What 2025 Grant Trends Are Teaching Nonprofits

Grant Writing Made Easy

Go beyond metrics to show what you’ve learned and how you adapt your programs. Make grant strategy a team sport. Empower your staff to support grant readiness, even if you have only one grant writer. Audit your grant content and practices. Pro tip: Treat your grant strategy as a living document.

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The most read Candid insights articles in 2024: Fundraising, AI, and diversity 

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Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready? Regardless of whether a nonprofit uses generative AI to write applications, it has to have the necessary understanding, capacity, and infrastructure to apply for foundation grants, which are largely restricted to program expenses. by Lori Guidry, Candid.

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Grant Writing for Small Nonprofits: How to Do More With Less

Grant Writing Made Easy

Draft a few flexible evaluation strategies to adapt to different grant formats, including quantitative metrics and qualitative feedback. Sustainability Language: Be ready to explain how your program will continue after the grant ends. Evaluation & Outcomes Plans: Many funders want to know how you’ll measure success.

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Philanthropy’s Reckoning Is Here. Is Your Grant Strategy Ready?

Grant Writing Made Easy

Narrative change challenges the outdated idea that impact must be quantified in sterile metrics. The AI Grants Hub™: Infrastructure for the Moment Instead of asking you to juggle tools and tabs, the Hub blends relational, narrative, and strategic work into a single workspace. That’s narrative justice in action, not generic output.

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Step Up Your Systems for Success: How to Simplify, Streamline and Support Your Team w/ Teresa Huff | Instrumentl

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So if they funded the project, as you had it outlined, then you need to make sure you're tracking those timelines that you had outlined in the application, the goals, the metrics, and just use your application as a guide for the grant project itself, who needs to be implementing, what do you need to be implementing?

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Is your nonprofit organization ‘grant-ready’? 

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Consequently, it’s difficult (though not impossible) for a brand-new organization to get a grant. Not only do you need to explain what you’ve accomplished, you also need to provide metrics and/or anecdotal evidence that your programs are making a difference. All that preparation will have been well worth it.