Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

They guess at the logic model based on what makes sense. They recycle past proposals, snag bios from LinkedIn, and mine old annual reports and budgets to pre-write the missing pieces. They draft the program description based on what was submitted last year. They cobble together a rough version of the financials.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Mentor Without Melting Down Training junior grant writers is rewarding… until youre buried under deadlines and the newbie just asked what a logic model isfor the third time. Automation is your best friend hereembrace it. The solution? Structure the process. Develop onboarding guides, resource libraries, and short video tutorials.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Got a logic model that looks like spaghetti? A well-placed chart, infographic, or timeline can do what five paragraphs cant: make something complex instantly understandable. Experienced grant writers dont overload the page with fluff. They use simple, purposeful visuals to break up text, highlight outcomes, or clarify processes.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Logic models are the heart and soul of a successful grant application. Wait- what do logic models have to do with writing grants?

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It shows how serious (or maybe crazy) I am about logic models. If you've followed me for any length of time, you will have come across a presentation or two about logic models. In logic models, each prior step informs the next step.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 5, 2025

With philanthropy's logic models and impact measures, pursuit of charitable good is no longer a unifying force. By Hali Lee Getty Images With our logic models and impact measures, pursuit of charitable good is no longer a unifying force. Collective charity can restore our power to create belonging for all.

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Instrumentl

APRIL 15, 2024

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Steve Boland will share with you how to use logic models to show outcomes from correlations.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 11, 2025

Lead Writer Beth Archer, GPC observes, “I think sometimes the confusion comes in because objectives don’t have a place in a structure like a logic model.” Outcomes are part of a logic model. If you need help understanding and creating a logic model for your project, we offer a FREE excellent resource.)

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Logic models can be your friends. ICYMI or want a refresher of our tips, here it is for your viewing pleasure: When I posted the video to LinkedIn, I tagged some of my trusted colleagues in the field to find out what one-line grant tips they would add to our montage, and they didnt let me down.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The order in which our team recommends you approach pre-planning is to create drafts (not finalized, not set in stone, but working documents that are a starting point for the real application) of the three following elements: Logic model – A draft of the key elements of your program/project design.

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Instrumentl

APRIL 29, 2024

Learn how to write an effective grant evaluation plan, including building a logic model, to evaluate the success of a grant-funded project [with examples]

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Program design tools help us structure our logic models and theories of change. But oh, the triumph when you mailed it, boxed up with carbon copies and hope! Fast forward to today, we are blessed. Technology supports every part of the process. Digital research platforms give us up-to-date stats and funding sources at our fingertips.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If Charlie was supposed to get the logic model to you two days ago, you need to be empowered to go to his boss about it. Divide up the narrative sections but then pick one person to put the final polish on it all to make sure it reads as a coherent whole. Most important: set interim deadlines and enforce them.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Becoming familiar with the theory of change and the logic model behind the program design can help us write a narrative that explains how we know that doing something in a certain way can be expected to achieve certain results. . We can expect certain results: participants will feel less isolated and more connected with others.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 19, 2025

Sketch a visual of your programmaybe a timeline, a logic model, or a community impact map. Here are a few ways to use pen and paper when you’re stuck: Mind map your proposal section, drawing connections between ideas. Write longhand if the words arent coming on screen.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This helps reduce the feeling of drinking from a fire hose when doing prospect research.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 23, 2025

In other, more energetic moments, we might believe that our brains can magically do and focus on multiple programs, multiple drafts, multiple budgets, and multiple logic models at one time. For grant writers, the word can represent a tormenting impossibility at times.

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The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 9, 2024

As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff. His treatise, The Rhetoric , laid out a durable blueprint for creating persuasive arguments and the elements he described are as useful today as they were in 4th century BC Greece. The first of these is ethos.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. You can learn the basics of creating logic models for your programs in Candid’s Introduction to Measuring Your Impact course.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 22, 2024

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?” Consider this potential example: A funder values the importance of equal access to opportunities, directing support to many grassroots organizations.

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Instrumentl

MAY 14, 2024

Drawing insights from Steve Boland’s webinar on using logic models, we'll provide a structured approach to measuring grant success effectively. Demystify grant outcomes with our comprehensive guide. Learn what grant outcomes are, why they're crucial indicators of success, and how to report them to funders.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Quartet Dry-Erase Whiteboard A place to jot down notes during a call or visualize a logic model as you talk through program elements. Ember Mug, a temperature control smart mug A mug that keeps your beverage of choice warm all morning…or all night! This dry-erase board fits easily above your keyboard.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 10, 2022

It’s the only reasonable way to conquer that logic model or have a difficult but necessary conversation with a program officer or board member. However, my own most satisfying development as a grant professional has come from examining standard systemic practices and questioning them while taking action to advocate for change.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. A logic model is a way to show the relationship between project resources, proposed activities, outcomes, and the impact you hope to achieve. Example timeline.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 1, 2023

Example timeline Logic Model Another tool that you can use (and is frequently required by funders) is a logic model. A logic model is a way to show the relationship between project resources, proposed activities, outcomes, and the impact you hope to achieve.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

In logic model language (check this out to learn why logic models are essential), outputs are the direct results of your activities. For example, if one of your activities is teaching students, a potential output of the activity of teaching students is the # of students taught.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

outcomes in our logic models. Our next article will bridge this information and communicate how goals, outcomes, and outputs inform logic models, so stay tuned. Our team at Think and Ink Grants Consulting® uses S.M.A.R.T. We feel they help make applications more competitive and make it easier to complete evaluations.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

The logic model. Developing a logic model before I start writing tells me who my characters are, what’s going to happen, and what the end result will be. I definitely fall into the former category when creating fiction, but I am firmly among the latter when I write a grant. My outline? Don’t forget emotion : Emotion?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 26, 2023

The Rising Demand for AI Skills: Job Opportunities and Earnings A 2020 study reveals that job openings requiring AI or machine-learning expertise will grow by 71% by 2025.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

measurable data points for long-term program and impact assessments. hard and fast proof to qualify a community for programming, such as when funds have to benefit “disadvantaged” or “under-resourced” communities.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

In addition to having a deep love for logic models and need statements, Amanda is passionate about cats, birds, and random trivia. Now, she balances writing proposals for large nonprofits while still helping smaller nonprofits and new grant “pros” launch their professional careers in grants.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 4, 2024

This includes: Crafting a comprehensive logic model to outline the program's intricacies and engage diverse organizational departments. Even if a desired grant deadline is missed, ample time remains to regroup and prepare for the next cycle. With twelve months at hand, meticulous planning becomes feasible.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

There is a wealth of resources out there for a nonprofit looking to design a logic model or define indicators, and lots of smart people have plenty to say about program evaluation as a discipline.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Over more than 25 years of researching, prioritizing, writing, developing objectives, creating evaluation plans, and tangling with logic models, I never spent much time measuring a crucial aspect of work that affects all those tasks and more—my happiness.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

This entails creating clear program logic models, outcomes frameworks, and evaluation plans that align with the organization's mission and vision.Partnerships and Collaborations: It cannot be emphasized enough that building partnerships and collaborations with other organizations, stakeholders, and funders is crucial.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?”

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 4, 2024

Some may require developing a logic model, which is even more difficult. Reporting requirements for federal and some government grants require the right people and systems for proper grant management. If you drop the ball on your reporting, that funder may never fund you again. We talk more about this and the related consequences here.

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