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You Won the Grant—Now What? Mastering Post-Award Chaos Without Losing Sleep

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

The application is submitted, the grants been awarded, and everyones celebrating. Logic models. Post-Award Pressure Is Real For experienced grant writers, post-award management can feel like the most overlooked and underestimated beast in the grant world. Think of it as your grant GPS. Cue the confetti!

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Burned Out but Brilliant: 8 Smart, Sanity-Saving Strategies for Frustrated Grant Writers

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Lets face itbeing an experienced grant writer can feel like youre juggling flaming swords while walking a tightrope… in a windstorm… during tax season. You know how to make funders swoon with a perfectly phrased needs statement and turn complex program logic into pure poetry. Sure, youve got the expertise. What worked?

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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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Hard and Fast Proof: The Quest for Demographic Data

Grant Professionals Association

No “filters” or keyword searches; no wading through multi-tab spreadsheets; no advanced software to download reports… What you DO get: An easy-to-read narrative profile (for the geographic zone you indicated) informed by about 18 key demographic indicators. You might be tempted to paste the narrative part into your grant proposal as is!)

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Why are grantmakers stuck in separate siloes?

Candid

She was looking for someone to lead the IT team, and I was looking to contribute to society on a deeper, more meaningful level than my role leading the software testing of merchandising and logistics applications. They both have grant programs aligned with an overarching mission and overseen by program officers and grants administrators.