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

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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GrantNews

JULY 8, 2025

Writing a strong grant proposal is part art, part strategy – and knowing how to stand out can make all the difference. Don’t Recycle Proposals Without Rewriting Every grantor is different. So, take the time to personalize your proposal, echo their language, and clearly demonstrate why your project is a perfect fit.

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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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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Even seasoned grant writers make grant proposal errors, but small changes can be the difference between a funded project and a missed opportunity. Funders review hundreds of applications, and issues such as unclear objectives, vague budgets, or an ineffective statement of need can easily push your proposal to the bottom of the pile.

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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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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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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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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 29, 2025

The question is, how can you prepare for an audit when you’re just reading the request for proposals or spotting an opportunity from your favorite foundation? Document your answers to these questions, as these will become your internal notes for defending your proposal if auditors have some later as well.

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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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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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GrantNews

JUNE 17, 2025

In this article, we’ll cover the most common reasons grant proposals are turned down – and share how using smart resources like GrantWatch.com can help you avoid those pitfalls. Your Proposal Doesn’t Match the Funder’s Priorities One of the top reasons grants get denied is a mismatch between your project and the funder’s mission.

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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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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

In an increasingly competitive landscape, it is essential to present compelling proposals that stand out and resonate with potential funders. Researching their previous projects and funded initiatives can provide invaluable insights and allow you to tailor your proposal to reflect their priorities.

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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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The Fundraiser Coach

MAY 11, 2025

End Every Donor Meeting with a Next Step Whether it’s scheduling a follow-up, sending a proposal, or inviting them to an event, seek ways to guide and continue connection. This next step in the B.R.I.D.G.E. What Does It Mean to “Guide”? That conversation became the start of a deeper, more aligned philanthropic journey.

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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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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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GrantNews

JUNE 16, 2025

Understand What Funders Are Looking For Most foundation grants are awarded based on alignment with their mission, so tailoring your proposal to each opportunity is essential. Craft a Strong Application On Your Own Even without formal training, you can write a compelling grant proposal by focusing on clarity, impact, and outcomes.

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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 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 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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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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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Complexity of the Grant Proposal Simple applications for smaller grants may take 10-20 hours. Complex government or multi-partner proposals can require over 100 hours. Level of Preparation Pre-existing Resources: Having prior research, templates, or previous proposals can significantly reduce time. Lets explore these: 1.

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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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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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 15, 2025

Look at their past funding to gain a sense of their priorities and tailor your proposal accordingly. Align the scale of your proposal with the funder’s known patterns Our BIG takeaway? Clarify Your “Why” and “How” On occasion, applications are unclear about the core purpose of the project.

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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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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

For example, presenting a communitys poverty rate as 30% when it is actually 20% may make a proposal seem more urgent but undermines the integrity of the grant application. Focus on crafting proposals that are honest about challenges and measured in their promises. Grant writing is a profession grounded in trust.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 9, 2025

If your grant proposals feel flat or overly formal, it’s time to rethink your approach. A compelling narrative: Brings your mission to life Shows the real people behind the problem Demonstrates your impact in a tangible, memorable way It turns your proposal from a report into a movement. Storytelling isn’t fluff … it’s strategy.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Whether you are a novice or looking to refine your skills, the art of crafting compelling grant proposals can make all the difference in funding your vision. Understanding the importance of this skill not only prepares individuals to craft compelling proposals, but also helps them grasp the broader impact of their work.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

If you submitted your first proposals during the initial months of your strategy, it’s quite likely you’re still waiting on decisions at the 12-month point. Moreover, if you’re applying for competitive grants that may require multiple rounds of proposals or interviews, those decisions can be further delayed. When to Assess Instead?

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

As grant professionals, we have a responsibility to keep Who at the center of every proposal we write because they are the very reason grants even exist. By prioritizing Who in our proposals using compassionate grant writing like the second example, we help funding reach where its needed most, empowering people, not just institutions.

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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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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The application process for grants often involves submitting a detailed proposal outlining the intended use of the funds. Key Components of Grant Writing Successful grant writing involves several key components that are vital for crafting a compelling proposal.

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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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