Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The clarity, organization, and persuasive elements of a proposal can significantly influence decision-makers. Well-articulated grant proposals demonstrate an applicant’s understanding of the project’s goals, budget implications, and anticipated impact. Enhanced Project Viability Well-structured projects seem more feasible.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Youre deep in a federal proposal, juggling 10 stakeholders, two budgets, and a narrative that still needs serious polishthen your inbox pings: Hey, can I shadow you today? Over time, youll build a living library of resources: sample proposals, FAQs, cheat sheets, and checklists. Sure, its rewarding.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 8, 2025

Develop a Proposal Library Build a collection of templates and boilerplate text (e.g., Store past proposals, funder feedback, and common attachments in one organized place. Share this calendar with leadership so they understand your capacity and upcoming workload. org background, staff bios, financials) to reduce writing time.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 21, 2025

Whether you currently have a handle on your mission-critical tasks or need to outsource immediately, creating a request for proposals (RFP) sets the stage for finding the right skills at the right price. This level of specificity will help your nonprofit attract the most qualified proposals.

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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While nonprofits often wait to assess impact after funding is secured, evaluating impact potential before submitting a grant proposal can significantly strengthen your application. Here’s how nonprofits can measure and communicate impact and ROI effectively before they submit a proposal. cost per individual served).

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 9, 2025

To stand out in the competitive grant landscape of 2025, aligning your proposals with your organizations strategic goals is not just advisableits essential. Heres how you can ensure your grant proposals hit the mark. This review will provide the foundation for crafting grant proposals that align seamlessly with your priorities.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

It doesnt matter how long youve been in the gameseeing your carefully crafted proposal get shot down still stings. Even when you know the proposal was strong, rejection hits hard. Thats the truth of competitive grant writing even great proposals get denied. And then bam you get the dreaded Thank you for your submission email.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 29, 2025

Be Compelling Make your application stand out by presenting a strong, credible case: Include accurate, factual data to support your proposal. Keep your proposal focused and to the point by: Avoiding unnecessary details. The post Do Your Grant Proposals Follow the 3 Cs Formula for Success? Prioritizing quality over quantity.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, especially during proposal development, has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my 26+ years working in nonprofits. Yet, fostering a productive proposal-building environment often presents scheduling and communication hurdles.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

MAY 13, 2025

For this reason, you should also embrace emotion in your grant proposals and corporate giving solicitations. When a grant officer reads your LOI or grant proposal, they should feel somethingthey should get sad, or angry, or fearfultheir heart should be telling them, Yes! And those people have feelings! We have to help these people!

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 17, 2024

In this article: Mistake 3: Grant writers who do not honor the foundation’s submission requirements The person reading your grant proposal is tired. Who is reviewing your grant proposal? We have seen nonprofits create abbreviations such as ppl, bgn, org, and rd, and then use these abbreviations over and over throughout their proposal.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

AUGUST 20, 2024

Wheeler iStockphoto 5 ways to create a proposal budget that instills trust in grant makers. By David L.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 15, 2025

Second , you send a letter of inquiry (LOI) to each foundation that seems like a good fit (or submit a full proposal if the foundation prefers). Fourth , you send a full proposal to any foundation that invites you to do so in response to your LOI. Fifth , you follow up on each proposal with more calls and emails.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Writing grant proposals has become increasingly complex. Wheeler Getty Images Writing grant proposals has become increasingly complex. Veteran fundraisers share their advice to help you navigate the shifting landscape and win grants. By David L.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 8, 2025

Lets face it: grant writing isnt just typing proposals and hitting submit. Create and maintain a library of polished templates, go-to boilerplate, and funder-specific language thats ready to drop into any proposal. Its high-stakes, high-pressure intellectual combat. Start every grant from scratch. The antidote? Build your arsenal.

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Candid

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most of the comments from respondents who didn’t know indicated they doubted they’ve received AI-generated proposals but there was no way to know for sure. The post Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant proposals? Our associations with our grant partners are very much relation-based.” appeared first on Candid insights.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. GrantAssistant’s full team, located in Washington, D.C.

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The Grantsmanship Center

APRIL 9, 2025

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking When writing a grant proposal, assume the reader doesnt know much about your community or the challenges and problems your organization is addressing. Context is information that gives the reader a frame of reference for concepts in the rest of the proposal.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Doing your foundation or government grants keep falling off the bottom of the list, impacting your grant proposal submissions. Many of the nonprofits we work with have wonderfully talented development teams often collaborate with grant consultants to enhance their proposal writing efforts. Then, it changed.

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Professional Grant Writers

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The post How to write a winning grant proposal for academic research appeared first on Professional Grant Writers. Grant funding is crucial for academic research, but success depends on more than just a strong idea. Federal agencies like the National Institutes.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 10, 2025

A new study finds just 36 percent of major foundations feel confident assessing the technical feasibility of AI proposals, raising concerns about philanthropy's response to a rapidly evolving landscape.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Grant writers, raise your hand if youve ever opened an old proposal and discovered that the current executive director left two years agoand your orgs mission statement has since gone through three rewrites and a rebrand. Weve all been there.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 12, 2025

Align your proposals with emerging priorities, new leadership, or strategic shifts on the funder’s end. Be a ChameleonAdapt to Stay Relevant Funder priorities shift. Politics change. Trends evolve. If you’re still pitching the same project the same way you did three years ago, youre toast. Stay flexible.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The budget should mirror the proposal narrative. * Is it reasonable to support the program? Without a budget justification, the burden of explanation within the proposal narrative increases exponentially. * Does it include resources from other sources? The budget section of the proposal can be a huge plus or minus.

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 2, 2025

Predictive Analytics : Grant seekers will use predictive analytics to identify potential funding opportunities and tailor proposals based on trends and funder preferences. Advanced analytics tools will help organizations present compelling evidence of their impact. Shift Towards Collaborative Funding Models 3.1

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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As a grant writer, it’s important that to have the focus and commitment necessary to bring together the various components required to adhere to the framework of the grant and while preparing an effective proposal to give any organization the best possibility of being awarded the grant.

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Grant Writer Team

APRIL 17, 2025

Your Next Grant Starts with the Right Preparation Crafting a winning grant proposal takes effort, planning, and the right support. A strong proposal depends on having the right information at hand and a clear strategy in place. 10 Steps to Strengthen Your Next Grant Proposal 1. That is why GrantWriterTeam is here for you.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

Share what youve learned with stakeholders Once youve researched and analyzed your peer organizations revenue mixes, its time to translate these insights into a proposed funding strategy for your own organization. This exchange can also validate the proposed funding strategy and help refine the organizations approach to securing funding.

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RBW Strategy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its not just about putting together a nice evaluation plan in your proposal, but also about how data collection will get done in real time. I have highlighted some items in the table of contents to showcase how you should look at the table of contents from a post-award perspective. Will this be done internally or externally?

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 13, 2025

Organizations are experimenting with ways the technology can help craft grant proposals, analyze donor data, improve programs, and more. By Rasheeda Childress Ikon Images via AP Organizations are experimenting with ways the technology can craft grant proposals, analyze donor data, improve programs, and more.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 3, 2025

Link Technology Investments to the Organization’s Strategic Plan and Objectives To make a strong business case for any technology investment, you need to ensure that the proposal benefits not only the finance team but the organization as a whole. Can other departments use these new systems and benefit from what finance is proposing?

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2025

For example, presenting a communitys poverty rate as 30% when it is actually 20% may make a proposal seem more urgent but undermines the integrity of the grant application. Focus on crafting proposals that are honest about challenges and measured in their promises. This pressure can lead to creative interpretations of data.

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Though there are challenges to meeting the criteria in order to apply for matching grants, the end result can yield a much greater return on the time and effort you put into writing and submitting this kind of grant proposal. Primary consideration for Foundation funding will be for proposals utilizing matching grants.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

In an increasingly competitive landscape, it is essential to present compelling proposals that stand out and resonate with potential funders. Researching their previous projects and funded initiatives can provide invaluable insights and allow you to tailor your proposal to reflect their priorities.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

They recycle past proposals, snag bios from LinkedIn, and mine old annual reports and budgets to pre-write the missing pieces. Now youre supposed to write their sections too ? Thats exactly what you do. Not because its fair. But because it works. Great grant writers dont wait for perfect input.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Complexity of the Grant Proposal Simple applications for smaller grants may take 10-20 hours. Complex government or multi-partner proposals can require over 100 hours. Level of Preparation Pre-existing Resources: Having prior research, templates, or previous proposals can significantly reduce time. Lets explore these: 1.

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GrantNews

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This information is invaluable for crafting strong foundation grant proposals. Eligible proposals address issues of environmental, social, and global concern, especially those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged. Funding supports things like hospitals, schools, and museums.

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