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The #1 Grant Writing Headache? Your Own Team.

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

If you’ve been in the grant-writing game for more than five minutes, you already know the real bottleneck isnt your writing skills. Heres why: the people youre depending on dont need the grant to happen. To them, supporting your grant writing effort is just another thing on a long list of things.

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Chaos Kills Proposals: Lock the Program Design Before You Write

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Use a No Brief, No Draft Policy Make it official: If you dont know what youre doing, Im not writing about it. Funders can smell a vague, incoherent proposal from a mile away. Use a simple logic model to guide the conversation: Inputs: What resources do we already have? You do pull proposals out of a hat.

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Bored Funders Don’t Fund—Keep Your Proposals Fresh or Risk the Trash Pile

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Lets face itmost grant proposals sound the same. So how do experienced grant writers keep things fresh without breaking the rules? Innovation in grant writing isnt about gimmicks. But if your proposal doesnt feel human, its already behind. Great grant writers know how to weave a story. Bottom line?

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Training Junior Grant Writers—Without Losing Your Mind or Missing Deadlines

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Youre deep in a federal proposal, juggling 10 stakeholders, two budgets, and a narrative that still needs serious polishthen your inbox pings: Hey, can I shadow you today? Welcome to the wild world of mentoring junior grant writers. This builds skill and confidencewithout risking the quality of your high-stakes proposals.

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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

Before AI, cloud-based platforms, and fancy grant management software, grant writing was a hands-on, paper-filled, finger-cramping journey. Or the time we used carbon paper to create multiple copies of a grant proposal, leaving our fingers stained and our drafts smudged beyond recognition?

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Grant Writer’s Block? 5 Creative Ways to Get Unstuck ✍️🧠

Grant Writing Made Easy

Here are a few ways to use pen and paper when you’re stuck: Mind map your proposal section, drawing connections between ideas. Sketch a visual of your programmaybe a timeline, a logic model, or a community impact map. Write longhand if the words arent coming on screen. The post Grant Writers Block?

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Five Steps to Creating a Winning Logic Model

Think and Ink Grants

Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. If you've followed me for any length of time, you will have come across a presentation or two about logic models. In logic models, each prior step informs the next step.