Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Your staff are up to their eyeballs in program operations and other work to grow your mission. I talk with many nonprofit leaders who are working to capacity. This means that even if one of our team members is out sick or on vacation, your work is still completed and deadlines are met. Then, it changed. Does this sound familiar?

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

A weak statement of need will cast doubt on your proposal’s relevance and impact. When need statements miss the mark, proposals often linger in the “maybe” pile or get passed over entirely. Why It Matters Funders are risk-averse. They want to invest in solutions for pressing problems. Data offers credibility. Emotion builds connection.

Proposal

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Bringing in a new team member should take work off your platenot add to it. If your team has been working in the same space for a while, they are likely well entrenched in your nonprofit and have a deep understanding of the community you serve. Alex has been working in grants for more than 15 years.

Consulting

Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Bringing in a new team member should take work off your plate—not add to it. If your team has been working in the same space for a while, they are likely well entrenched in your nonprofit and have a deep understanding of the community you serve. Alex has been working in grants for more than 15 years.

Consulting

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

The grant writer cost in 2025 varies widely depending on experience, project type, and scope of work. This setup helps everyone – organizations can budget exactly, while writers get rewarded for working efficiently. Some writers need 50% upfront and 50% at completion, while others send monthly bills based on finished work.

Grant

Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

Create a template The first step in the budgeting process is to set up your budget template. Unless the proposal requires a very simple budget that must be embedded into the narrative as a small table, it works best to develop the budget in Excel or a similar spreadsheet tool, such as Google Sheets.

Budget

Candid

JULY 24, 2024

As Candid prepares to launch a new, fully integrated suite of tools next year, the communications and brand awareness team is working to create a better Candid.org to explain who we are and how we can help the sector. There are plenty of templates to get you started; I like this one from The Square Agency.

Scope Of Work