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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

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? Program design tools help us structure our logic models and theories of change. Online submissions eliminate the risk of losing a mailed proposal to the abyss.

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What 2025 Grant Trends Are Teaching Nonprofits

Grant Writing Made Easy

With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. Make your proposals clear, structured, and scannable to meet the needs of AI-assisted funder review processes. Verify everything.

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Grant Writing for Small Nonprofits: How to Do More With Less

Grant Writing Made Easy

With a clear strategy and a few innovative systems, even the smallest teams can write competitive, compelling grant proposals. It spreads your limited time and resources too thin, often resulting in rushed, unfocused proposals that don’t stand out. In fact, the most effective proposals are rarely the work of just one person.

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Philanthropy’s Reckoning Is Here. Is Your Grant Strategy Ready?

Grant Writing Made Easy

One that centers transparency, flexibility, and truth-telling in your proposals. we end up with technically correct proposals, but spiritually vacant. And when your process is scattered, your proposals follow suit. Instead of strategic storytelling rooted in a long-term funding plan, your team ends up firefighting.

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How to Evaluate Grant Opportunities: When to Say No to a Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

Whether you’re a solo grant writer or part of a small, multitasking team, developing a clear process to evaluate grant opportunities can help you write stronger proposals, avoid burnout, and focus on the funding that truly supports your mission. But in practice, this approach can backfire. If something is ambiguous, don’t guess.

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Maximizing Grant Writing Success: The Importance of Starting Federal Grants Early

Think and Ink Grants

Crafting a winning proposal within such a narrow window presents considerable challenges. However, the most triumphant grant proposals are those that have been meticulously developed months or even years ahead of the application deadline. With twelve months at hand, meticulous planning becomes feasible.

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Organizational Development in Becoming Grant-Ready

Grant Professionals Association

Here are some key steps you can take and considerations that will bring your organization that much closer to securing the funds your organization needs: Strategic Planning: Organizational development involves strategic planning, which identifies the goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and its programs/service offerings.