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What 2025 Grant Trends Are Teaching Nonprofits

Grant Writing Made Easy

Prepare logic models or theory of change diagrams to demonstrate how your activities lead to visual outcomes. Consider training staff in basic data storytelling and logic models. Use a mix of quantitative and qualitative data. Numbers show the scale, but stories show the depth. Highlight systems for tracking.

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

Even better, can you imagine not just repurposing content, but having a custom system that utilizes past wins, organizational information, and your preferred research to draft your proposals? So when generative AI drafts your need statements and logic model, it’s speaking your language. Read more about that here.

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From Good to Better to Best – Telling a Compelling Story of Impact

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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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Revolutionize Your Grant Writing with AI: Write Your Grant in Just One Hour

Grant Writing Made Easy

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. This course not only enhances job satisfaction but also increases your potential for higher earnings and job opportunities.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

Blackbaud

However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. This understanding led me to an approach for “datamaking” that I utilize with groups.