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How Nonprofits Should Measure Impact and ROI Before Submitting Grant Proposals

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While nonprofits often wait to assess impact after funding is secured, evaluating impact potential before submitting a grant proposal can significantly strengthen your application. Here’s how nonprofits can measure and communicate impact and ROI effectively before they submit a proposal. cost per individual served).

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What 2025 Grant Trends Are Teaching Nonprofits

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2025 grant trends are doing the most , to say the least. With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. Go beyond metrics to show what you’ve learned and how you adapt your programs.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

That can overwhelm grant writing for small nonprofits, but it doesn’t have to. With a clear strategy and a few innovative systems, even the smallest teams can write competitive, compelling grant proposals. It spreads your limited time and resources too thin, often resulting in rushed, unfocused proposals that don’t stand out.

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

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Now, the other question is Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant proposals? Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready? This Candid insights article discusses the basics of what generative AI is, how it can be useful in a grantwriting context, and how to use the content it generates with caution.

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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Narrative change challenges the outdated idea that impact must be quantified in sterile metrics. One that centers transparency, flexibility, and truth-telling in your proposals. we end up with technically correct proposals, but spiritually vacant. And when your process is scattered, your proposals follow suit.

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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 it's all about thinking about the long-term keywords that people often use in these sorts of proposals that you might often see in the different opportunities that you're pursuing to then filter down even further. Being grant-ready is really important. What kind of program?

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Is your nonprofit organization ‘grant-ready’? 

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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. Have you determined that you meet the minimum requirements?