Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

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 Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

We’re officially halfway through 2025, and your nonprofit grant strategy deserves a strategic boost if you want to finish the year on a high note. This mid-year check-in is your opportunity to: Strengthen your nonprofit grant strategy by zeroing in on grants with the highest alignment and funding potential.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 23, 2025

Struggling to keep up with grant writing as a team of one, or as part of a small nonprofit where everyone wears multiple hats? 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.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 7, 2025

This post could lead to a 2025 sequel: The Incredible Shrinking Grant Proposal. Faithful readers also know that I started writing grant proposals shortly after the last Ice Age ended. As we’ve written about before, proposal formatting requirements change over 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. Here are a few ways to use pen and paper when you’re stuck: Mind map your proposal section, drawing connections between ideas. The post Grant Writers Block?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Ever feel like philanthropy is entering a new era, but your grant writing process is stuck in 2005? And while many nonprofits cling to outdated, compliance-focused grant practices, there’s a better way, especially when you equip your strategy with tools built for this moment. The question is: Are your grant strategies keeping up?

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Strategic Grants

JULY 9, 2025

Demonstrating value for money How your proposal provides value for money is a common tender question. Consider volunteers, in-kind contributions, co-delivery models that avoid duplication, or existing infrastructure due to similar services (e.g. Is your logic model truly logical? systems or templates).

Government

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. Use this checklist to evaluate grant opportunities effectively and make informed decisions.

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The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 9, 2024

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Before campaign advisors, spin doctors, influencers or ad men, there was the Greek philosopher, Aristotle. As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff. The first of these is ethos.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

These competitive advantages in grant-seeking for large grants (federal grants, state grants, and yes, even large foundation grants) are the act of pre-planning. Workplan – A rough outline of the key activities, who will conduct them, and when they will take place.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I had the esteemed pleasure of presenting at the Grant Professionals Conference (www.[link] Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. hours but 3 full hours.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Often, the reason a foundation declines a grant has nothing to do with you. Funders seek a return on investment With so many applicants and limited funding to go around, foundations view a grant as an investment. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

When it comes to making an impact on the communities and issues they have prioritized as a philanthropic body, grant funders live vicariously through their awardees. Fortunately, there are tools in the world of program evaluation that we can tap into as grant writers to tell our stories of impact in a compelling way.

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Grant Training Center

MAY 30, 2023

Successful grant writers possess a variety of characteristics that contribute to their effectiveness. These are learned through experience, various proposal submissions, collaborative efforts with colleagues, and focus and determination. The end result is a well developed and polished proposal.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Like many of you, we’ve worked on grant proposals that have not come together easily, and the final product feels mediocre at best. Despite their weaknesses, sometimes the proposals still get funded, but that’s the exception, not the rule. avoiding jargon). can communicate to the funder the outcome of their investment).

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

January 01, 2023 Like many of you, we’ve worked on grant proposals that have not come together easily, and the final product feels mediocre at best. Despite their weaknesses, sometimes the proposals still get funded, but that’s the exception, not the rule. avoiding jargon). We see this come up frequently.

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Professional Grant Writers

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Across a range of sectors, grant funding can be a critical factor in turning visions into reality. And professional grant proposal writing services. The post What is included in grant proposal writing services? appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you are gift-giving for fellow writers or want to send a subtle hint to someone, here is a list of items to surround yourself with to create the perfect grant-writing atmosphere. Quartet Dry-Erase Whiteboard A place to jot down notes during a call or visualize a logic model as you talk through program elements.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

I don’t mean to infer that reading grants is boring, and I’m not promoting performance-enhancing drugs. I’ve written grants, primarily federal grants, for more than 30 years, but my love is creative writing. Some might see creative writing as antithetical to federal grant writing. The logic model.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 26, 2023

Celebrating 8 Years of Innovation: Special Discount on AI-Powered Grant Writing Course As we celebrate the 8-year anniversary of our business this June, we’re offering a special $80 discount on our revolutionary AI-powered grant writing course using the code: 8YEARS. What is Chat GPT and How Does it Work?

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 4, 2024

In the realm of federal grants and education service grants, timing is everything. Securing funding through grants demands foresight and meticulous planning, often long before the grant cycle officially opens. Grant cycles, more often than not, operate on tight schedules, sometimes lasting no more than six weeks.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 22, 2024

Simply put, the people who write grant applications may be surprised to discover how difficult it can be for respondents to understand and answer their questions.” If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?”

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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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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

As a grant professional, I smile when these opportunities for "ah-ha" moments arise. I specialize in grants supporting women, children, health, and education, so some of my clients' outputs are similar to # of health training sessions provided, # of women helped, or # of students taught. outcomes win grants.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If you have not yet had any “ah-ha moments” when it comes to learning how to write grants, you are in for a real treat. Learning the difference between goals, outcomes, and outputs is key to writing competitive proposals. This is the holy grail of grant writing. Our team at Think and Ink Grants Consulting® uses S.M.A.R.T.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

It is the soul of your proposal, usually the first impression people have of your case, and the way you introduce your work to a funder. Everything should return to your stated need as it sets the tone for the rest of your proposal. She also enjoys proselytizing about grants whenever she can.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

You might be tempted to paste the narrative part into your grant proposal as is!) Keith supports nonprofits and small and large businesses with professional grant writing and digital content writing needs and challenges, including county, state, federal, and foundation grants as well as web pages and online articles and blog posts.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 4, 2024

Although applying for federal grants may be tempting, they are definitely not for every nonprofit organization. Winning grants for nonprofits offered by government agencies do take time. Here are six clear signs that federal grants may not be for you - at least for now, anyway. Not all federal grants require a match.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

After more than quarter of a century in the grants field, significant issues that require learning new problem-solving skills can still arise. Despite our best efforts and knowledge, sometimes sabotage can sneak in to derail progress on a project or proposal. At about week three, I had had enough.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

March Madness is in full swing, and all this talk about competition and brackets makes me think about how grant writing relates. Grants, much like professional sports, are competitive, and increasingly so. We can’t come in on gameday and put together a proposal without any preparation and expect to win big.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 16, 2025

This focus on one solution is tied to many of the dysfunctions in the sector, but two, Overdependence on Data and Quantitative Metrics, and Funding Constraints and Grant Dependency, are most intimately tied to how we typically bring solutions to life. We like to represent our work like its clean, under control, and spot-on.

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