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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Evaluation & Outcomes Plans: Many funders want to know how you’ll measure success. 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.

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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Narrative change challenges the outdated idea that impact must be quantified in sterile metrics.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.

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Organizational Development in Becoming Grant-Ready

Grant Professionals Association

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.

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Building a Grant-Ready Organization

Grant Professionals Association

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.

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The elements of a strong nonprofit program design

Grant Writing Made Easy

In addition, it’s important to keep track of more basic program metrics, such as the number of people served, the number of hours of programming delivered, etc. For example, if you work in the education space, you might collect data on reading test scores before your intervention and after. Next steps.