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Wrapping up 2024

Grant Professionals Association

Consider the following: How many grants and LOIs did you submit? Revised or created policies and procedures? Year to Date As you review the year so far, review your metrics to illustrate the excellent work you and your team completed. How many reports did you assist with or complete? New funders & results?

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Fetching Funds: How Animal Organizations Can Find and Win Grants

Grant Professionals Association

In Letters of Inquiry (LOIs), I weave the stories and photos right into the letter. This was something I resisted for years until I started testing it and found that LOIs with stories and photos received much better responses. Funders love a great underdog story, so I use stories with photos whenever I can.

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Go from Rejected to Accepted: 9 Reasons Your Grants Get Rejected (and How to Fix Them) w/ Teresa Huff | Instrumentl

Instrumentl

So if, for example, you're working on an LOI and then later on that develops into a full proposal, all you can do is you can leave that in, in progress for now, and then you can essentially create a task. Partner with Us Support Email Us Terms of Use Privacy Policy System Status © 2025. Instrumentl All rights reserved

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Celebrating Canada with Grant Funding

GrantNews

” Canada has partnered with fellow nations since 1945 to fund projects, shape policies, and implement programs aimed at ending poverty and increasing sustainable development. Canada’s advocacy for multilateralism has been integral to its foreign policy since the conclusion of World War II.

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Upcoming Events: Informal Chats with Program Staff

WT Grant Foundation

Virtual Office Hour: Anatomy of a Use of Research Evidence Application November 14, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET Hosted by Anupreet Sidhu and Kim DuMont Are you interested in or currently working on a research proposal to improve the use of research evidence by decision-makers to inform youth-focused policies and practices?

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Questions to Ask Before Responding to a Funding Opportunity

Peak Proposals

This question can come up particularly with letters of interest (LOIs). It is not always clear if an LOI is supposed to serve as a screening step, where the applicants with the strongest LOIs will be invited to submit full proposals, or if it actually has money tied to it.

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Throwback Tuesday – An A-Z Guide to Writing Grants

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

You need to make a list of Letter of Intent (LOI), proposal, meeting, and reporting deadlines and dates and then actually put these in your calendar along with any reminders or notifications you may need. PROPOSAL WRITING TIP #2: Set milestones and benchmarks for yourself if it’s a larger grant. If not, it’s time to craft one.