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Federal Grants Are Beasts—Here’s How to Slay Them Without Losing Your Mind

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Federal proposals arent just bigtheyre massive , bureaucratic, and jammed with technical landmines. Heres the playbook for survivingand thrivingwhen its time to build that next monster federal grant proposal. Build a Strike Team Before the Battle Begins Federal proposals are too complex for one person to carry alone.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Ive been writing grant proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth and have seen various attempts to reform the federal grant-making process. If youre keeping score at home, S + A can usually produce a high-quality federal grant proposal in about 40 person hours. Why have one federal application portal, when ten will do?

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How Can We Use Trying Times to Advance Our Careers –

Grant Professionals Association

She has coordinated proposal development processes, bringing in over $165 million to the greater Houston area. Her grant work ranged from foundation and corporate sponsorships/proposals to multi- million collaborative government grants. She held leadership positions for over 25 years; coaching, training, and supervising others.

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Your Comprehensive Nonprofit Guide to Getting Started with NEA Grants

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

Put all your energy into making sure you are truly grant ready across the board and refining whatever project or program you intend to eventually propose. You will need this to create your SAM registration in the next step and you can also use it to access the grants.gov portal, too. You’ll need your login for the SAM website.

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Tell Us Your Sources - Without Telling Us Your Sources

ProposalPRO

But your federal grant program officers and reviewers don’t want to see them in your grant proposal. You may not see it this way, but Uncle Sam sees your leap into hyperspace as a way to add information beyond the allowable page limit. Federal reviewers aren’t supposed to know whose proposal they’re reading.

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The Advantages of Asymmetric Information

ProposalPRO

Or an advantage to experienced proposers. Same Information, Different Understanding Uncle Sam provides information about grants for free. Experienced proposers do. That’s why experienced proposers win. What is it? Information, then, may be available but not shared, not used, or not known.

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Summer Reading and Federal RFPs

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Let me tell you, reading a Request for Proposal (RFP), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), or whatever acronym the funder calls its grant application guidelines is not NEARLY as exciting as the next great novel. RFPs are the first step toward a successful proposal.