Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Make grant strategy a team sport. Empower your staff to support grant readiness, even if you have only one grant writer. Recommended Organizational Shifts To keep pace with emerging expectations, consider these practical ways to evolve your grant strategy and culture: Build relationship-centered practices.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Identify methods for assisting organizations to implement practices that advance grant readiness 2.06. Identify strategies and procedures for obtaining internal institutional support and approval of decision-makers for grant-seeking activities 3.01. Identify methods of locating funding sources 1.04.

GPC

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

Annual Funding Tracker : Develop a year-round pipeline strategy to ensure your grant calendar is both proactive and intentional. Standard Grant Narrative : A professionally written, AI-ready narrative explicitly tailored to your organization, allowing you to create targeted applications rapidly. Ready to See the Full Breakdown?

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Competency #2: Knowledge of organizational development as it pertains to grant readiness; Skill 2.1: Assess organizational readiness to seek grants, including alignment with funder priorities.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

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 Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

That’s not just exhausting—it’s unsustainable, especially when it comes to grant writing for small nonprofits. Building a centralized grant template library is one of the most effective ways to save time and increase consistency. Sustainability Language: Be ready to explain how your program will continue after the grant ends.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

From sample needs statements, budget narratives, and letters of commitment, the resources provided gave me clarity and the strength to navigate the federal grants process. The training also included interactive features, like a discussion board at Grant School and a Q&A session during every live meeting.

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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. This ensures consistency without sacrificing accuracy.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

I learned that grant professionals work in various environments as employees, contractors and business owners. My local chapter became the place where I began to understand the complexities of the grant world, the components of grant-readiness and the practices that demonstrate integrity and build trust.

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Strategic Grants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Strategic Grants, for example, knows that some of our products may not be the right solutionyetfor every For-Purpose organisation seeking funding. As we all know, finding the grants is a very small part of a successful and sustainable funding strategy.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

Your grant tracker includes actual documents, reviewer notes, and outcomes, not just names and dates. Your Standard Grant Narrative and application library are built-in and ready to pull from. It’s grant writing simplified. Our Grant Launch service sets it up for you. Yep, that’s right.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

The pressure to pursue every funding opportunity can feel overwhelming, especially in today’s environment of shrinking public resources and steep competition for private grants. But here’s the truth: not all grants are worth your time.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 19, 2025

Whether youre drafting your first grant or your fiftieth, writers block is a shared struggle especially when deadlines are looming and the stakes feel high. If youve ever stared at a blank screen, watching the cursor blink while the words refuse to come, youre not alone. The good news? You dont have to wait for the perfect sentence to appear.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 20, 2025

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. Instead of scrambling for details every time, youll have the essentials ready to go.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

And so everything is going to be ready for you in terms of these respective points. Essentially Teresa has a grant readiness audit that is gonna be really useful when assessing stacking yourself up to these respective mistakes that we've talked about today.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Always read the guidelines to make sure to meet the eligibility requirements and are ready to handle the funder’s requirements. AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. to ensure eligibility.

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Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

When I'm getting ready to work on a big grant application, I tell my husband I'm going scuba diving. You've got to go deep and stay deep until you're ready to come back up. You can even give them the three-year timeline and you've got a PDF and CSB ready for them to attach an email and whatnot.

Instrumentl

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Operational Disruptions Affecting Grant Readiness In addition to funding losses, nonprofits are experiencing widespread administrative breakdowns in the federal grant system. Ready to Strengthen Your Grant Strategy? Diminished confidence in public-private partnerships.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. The GPA Approved Trainer program will be enhanced to improve the resources available to those who train other grant professionals.

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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!);

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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. Are your staff and board ready to speak with a foundation representative about the organization’s priorities? Seeking a grant takes time, effort, and resources.

Grant Readiness

Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

Want more information on creating a plan of action for your organization to manage your federal grants? A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness. A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. Check out the webinar I Signed Up for What?

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Instrumentl

OCTOBER 27, 2023

What makes one nonprofit grant ready? Learn what are the signs to watch out for when it comes to your readiness, go through a grant readiness checklist before you submit your application, and more.

Grant Readiness

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

How do you write a grant and win tons of funding? 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.

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iGrantWriters

MARCH 23, 2020

However, some are not in a position to qualify for grants yet because they are not grant-ready. If you were to ask new founders of nonprofits if they are grant ready, most would say, "Yes" we are ready to receive grants based on their surface understanding of matter.

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2022

As you complete one grant proposal, you may have to write another. In truth, the grant writing season is more of a cycle than anything else. Your organization always has to be on the lookout for funders and ready to apply for a grant anytime during the fiscal year.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

So, are you ready to up your fundraising and development goals for 2024 by securing grant funding? 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Instrumentl

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What makes one nonprofit grant ready? Learn what are the signs to watch out for when it comes to your readiness, go through a grant readiness checklist before you submit your application, and more.

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CauseVox

MARCH 16, 2023

Before investing time and resources into writing grant proposals, you must make sure your organization is actually well-positioned for grants. Join Lynn Arsenault of LMA Grant Consulting to learn how to assess whether or not your organization is ready to dive into the world of grants.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

MARCH 4, 2021

Of course, whether or not you actually get a piece depends on several factors and to give you a better understanding of those and a better shot at an eventual award, I want to break down how to get started with NEA grants today. First up, a disclaimer: Some of you reading this are not ready for NEA grants. I’m going to apply.

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Instrumentl

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Prepare for government grants with our Instrumentl Partner Webinar. Expert Patrice Davis guides you in becoming "government grant ready" and optimizing grant-seeking strategies.

Grant Readiness

Instrumentl

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Prepare for government grants with our Instrumentl Partner Webinar. Expert Patrice Davis guides you in becoming "government grant ready" and optimizing grant-seeking strategies.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 3, 2024

Outcome Maryland Nonprofits contracted with RBW Strategy starting in 2020, and our organization has provided extensive support, including strategic readiness, prospect research, and grant writing. The post Maryland Nonprofits appeared first on RBW Strategy.

Federal Grants

Instrumentl

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn what how to get grant ready and what background information and more to have right at your fingertips, so you get to what’s really important – describing the great program that needs funding, today!

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