Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the senior manager of digital and data at the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation , Im always looking for new ways to eliminate friction between our organizations mission to prevent osteoporosis and my teams ability to realize it. In the past five years, we have exceeded expectations. But weve done it. It will pay off!

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Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Writing grants requires organizations to analyze their audience, gather data, build compelling stories, and submit polished proposals. This makes becoming skilled at proposal writing significant. A strong grant proposal has sections about the organization’s background, project details, story, budget, and ways to measure success.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

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? Over time, youll build a living library of resources: sample proposals, FAQs, cheat sheets, and checklists. Sure, its rewarding.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

Whether you currently have a handle on your mission-critical tasks or need to outsource immediately, creating a request for proposals (RFP) sets the stage for finding the right skills at the right price. This level of specificity will help your nonprofit attract the most qualified proposals.

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Grant Writer Team

JUNE 5, 2025

Want to make your grant proposal POP? The answer often lies in the proposal. A standout grant proposal isnt just well-written; its strategically crafted to connect, convince, and compel funders to say yes. If youre ready to turn a good proposal into a winning one, read on to find out how to make yours rise to the top!

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The clarity, organization, and persuasive elements of a proposal can significantly influence decision-makers. Well-articulated grant proposals demonstrate an applicant’s understanding of the project’s goals, budget implications, and anticipated impact. Enhanced Project Viability Well-structured projects seem more feasible.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 8, 2025

Develop a Proposal Library Build a collection of templates and boilerplate text (e.g., Store past proposals, funder feedback, and common attachments in one organized place. Share this calendar with leadership so they understand your capacity and upcoming workload. org background, staff bios, financials) to reduce writing time.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 29, 2025

Be Compelling Make your application stand out by presenting a strong, credible case: Include accurate, factual data to support your proposal. Keep your proposal focused and to the point by: Avoiding unnecessary details. Have you heard of the 3 Cs formula for grant writing success? So, what are the 3 Cs of grant writing?

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

It doesnt matter how long youve been in the gameseeing your carefully crafted proposal get shot down still stings. Even when you know the proposal was strong, rejection hits hard. Thats the truth of competitive grant writing even great proposals get denied. Lets be real: grant rejection sucks. That means following up.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 15, 2025

Second , you send a letter of inquiry (LOI) to each foundation that seems like a good fit (or submit a full proposal if the foundation prefers). Fourth , you send a full proposal to any foundation that invites you to do so in response to your LOI. Fifth , you follow up on each proposal with more calls and emails.

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 9, 2025

To stand out in the competitive grant landscape of 2025, aligning your proposals with your organizations strategic goals is not just advisableits essential. Heres how you can ensure your grant proposals hit the mark. This review will provide the foundation for crafting grant proposals that align seamlessly with your priorities.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While nonprofits often wait to assess impact after funding is secured, evaluating impact potential before submitting a grant proposal can significantly strengthen your application. Here’s how nonprofits can measure and communicate impact and ROI effectively before they submit a proposal. cost per individual served).

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

MAY 13, 2025

For this reason, you should also embrace emotion in your grant proposals and corporate giving solicitations. When a grant officer reads your LOI or grant proposal, they should feel somethingthey should get sad, or angry, or fearfultheir heart should be telling them, Yes! But much of what I see isnt so good. Go, therefore, and do it.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, especially during proposal development, has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my 26+ years working in nonprofits. Yet, fostering a productive proposal-building environment often presents scheduling and communication hurdles.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 17, 2024

In this article: Mistake 3: Grant writers who do not honor the foundation’s submission requirements The person reading your grant proposal is tired. Who is reviewing your grant proposal? It is no secret that nonprofits must rely on a variety of funding sources to sustain their work.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 15, 2025

You found a grant and written your proposal! The chance of winning a grant can vary depending on how many people apply and the caliber of your proposal. The bottom line is that once your grant proposal is submitted, it’s a waiting game determined by your potential funder. Picture this: You’ve done the hard work.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 9, 2025

The post Character Limit Alert: Words That Your Proposal Probably Doesn’t Need appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. As grant professionals, every day we draft thoughtful sentences to effectively engage reviewers. You know how it is. These two phrases often occur in everyday speech.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 8, 2025

Lets face it: grant writing isnt just typing proposals and hitting submit. Create and maintain a library of polished templates, go-to boilerplate, and funder-specific language thats ready to drop into any proposal. Its high-stakes, high-pressure intellectual combat. Start every grant from scratch. The antidote? Build your arsenal.

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The Grantsmanship Center

APRIL 9, 2025

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking When writing a grant proposal, assume the reader doesnt know much about your community or the challenges and problems your organization is addressing. Context is information that gives the reader a frame of reference for concepts in the rest of the proposal.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GrantAssistant’s full team, located in Washington, D.C.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Grant writers, raise your hand if youve ever opened an old proposal and discovered that the current executive director left two years agoand your orgs mission statement has since gone through three rewrites and a rebrand. Weve all been there. Lets break it down. Appoint a Grant Story Dream Team Dont go it alone. Think of it like LEGOs.

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GrantNews

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You must pay for a writer in advance before you turn in your proposal. However, the total overall average cost for a grant proposal of 5 to 8 pages of narrative text is about $1,500. Writing LOIs and budget proposals. It is best to start early when submitting this kind of grant proposal. Want to learn more?

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Millionaire Grant Lady

AUGUST 23, 2024

If the grant’s request for proposals outlines specific actions that are necessary if the grant is awarded and you are already completing all or most of them in the course of executing your mission — you’ve found an ideal match. Some state and federal grants focus on a particular type of area (such as rural or urban).

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Doing your foundation or government grants keep falling off the bottom of the list, impacting your grant proposal submissions. Many of the nonprofits we work with have wonderfully talented development teams often collaborate with grant consultants to enhance their proposal writing efforts. Then, it changed. Does this sound familiar?

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The budget should mirror the proposal narrative. * Is it reasonable to support the program? * Is it reasonable to support the program? Without a budget justification, the burden of explanation within the proposal narrative increases exponentially. * Does it include resources from other sources? .: “You’ve got to get it right.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

When used ethically, AI tools can help nonprofits, researchers, and institutions craft stronger proposals, ultimately increasing access to crucial funding. This saves valuable time, allowing grant writers to focus more on strategy, storytelling, and ensuring proposals reflect their organizations true mission and impact. Is it my tone?

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Align your proposals with emerging priorities, new leadership, or strategic shifts on the funder’s end. Renewal anxiety is no jokeand for experienced grant writers, it can feel like a thundercloud hanging over every funding cycle. But panic wont pay the bills. Action will. Dont just send a grant report once a year and call it good.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The proposal, which now goes to the Democratic-controlled Senate where its fate is uncertain, would also postpone tax filing deadlines for Americans held hostage or unlawfully detained abroad.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

Share what youve learned with stakeholders Once youve researched and analyzed your peer organizations revenue mixes, its time to translate these insights into a proposed funding strategy for your own organization. This exchange can also validate the proposed funding strategy and help refine the organizations approach to securing funding.

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RBW Strategy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its not just about putting together a nice evaluation plan in your proposal, but also about how data collection will get done in real time. You need to have a strong case statement and adequate responses to the narrative prompts in the application to ensure that you have justification for this funding.

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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As a grant writer, it’s important that to have the focus and commitment necessary to bring together the various components required to adhere to the framework of the grant and while preparing an effective proposal to give any organization the best possibility of being awarded the grant. Empowering Technology to Improve Capacity!

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GrantNews

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With a little research on a grant funder, grant-seekers can get a leg up and ensure their grant proposal stands out to grant-makers during the review process. In truth, this information also helps you make the determination of how much to ask for in your proposal. In truth, only the best grant proposals are considered for funding.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Letter of Inquiry is part of the grantmaking process because it would be overwhelming and time-consuming for funders to review 15-page proposals from everyone seeking money. Fortunately, when it comes to the structure of a Letter of Inquiry, you dont have to guess at what is required. That would simple take too long. So make it count!

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Grant Writer Team

APRIL 17, 2025

Your Next Grant Starts with the Right Preparation Crafting a winning grant proposal takes effort, planning, and the right support. A strong proposal depends on having the right information at hand and a clear strategy in place. 10 Steps to Strengthen Your Next Grant Proposal 1. That is why GrantWriterTeam is here for you.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

They recycle past proposals, snag bios from LinkedIn, and mine old annual reports and budgets to pre-write the missing pieces. If you’ve been in the grant-writing game for more than five minutes, you already know the real bottleneck isnt your writing skills. Its chasing down late or lousy input from your own teammates. Still no dice.

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Candid

MAY 2, 2025

If restricted funding is the only option per the foundations guidelines, work with your contact or program officer to shape your proposal and budget so potential funding is budget relieving meaning it will support work your organization is already doing or has committed to. Get up to speed on grantseeking and proposal writing.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2025

Whether you’re just getting started or putting the final touches on your grant proposal, the resources below can help you refine your budget. There are several types of budgets you may need: project proposal budgets, organization-wide operating budgets, capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets.

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