Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

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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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Funders often require detailed proposals outlining the project’s goals, timeline, and expected outcomes. These funds may be used for training staff, improving technology, or developing strategic plans. Grant Proposal Writing Writing a successful grant proposal is crucial for nonprofit organizations seeking funding.

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GrantNews

JULY 7, 2025

Proposals should reflect the belief that every child deserves opportunities for a fulfilling, enriched life. Designed to support small, volunteer-based groups, funding may cover veterinary care, training, prosthetics, aides, food, litter, and spay/neuter events. Click to learn more here. nonprofits for animal welfare projects.

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

The need for strategic and adequate technology investments is especially urgent for small grassroots organizations working to scale positive incomes in under-resourced communities. Demonstrate need: Tie your request directly to the organizations strategic plan and its capacity needs. Seek out capacity-building opportunities.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2025

Whether you’re just getting started or putting the final touches on your grant proposal, the resources below can help you refine your budget. There are several types of budgets you may need: project proposal budgets, organization-wide operating budgets, capital budgets, cash flow budgets, and opportunity budgets.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Scattered Systems: Decision Fatigue and Avoidance Behind every missed deadline or abandoned proposal is something deeper: cognitive overload. The Hub stores, organizes, and seamlessly integrates your calendar, task management, funder data, proposal drafts, templates, and AI-powered support.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

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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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application? Author Mary Diegert shares nonprofit grant proposal budgeting tips, and a road map for overcoming the challenges of calculating the revenue and expense numbers that will populate your one-page budget.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

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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GrantNews

APRIL 3, 2025

Truckers Against Trafficking – This program trains truck drivers to recognize and report trafficking. By supporting survivor rehabilitation, law enforcement training, and community education, these funds help disrupt trafficking networks and protect vulnerable populations. This alone illustrates the vital need for intervention.

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Next Level Grant Training offers a unique pathway to enhance your career and contribute meaningfully to your organization and society. This article dives into how mastering ethics, collaboration, grant research, strategic planning, building relationships, and prospecting for foundations can be a game-changer in your professional life.

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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

Attention to Detail: Grant writing involves meticulous attention to detail to ensure that proposals are accurate and well-organized. Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. appeared first on Grant Training Center Blog.

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Grant Training Center

MARCH 30, 2020

A 2015 meta-analysis of more than 1000 articles with advice to proposal writers showed that most of the top 10 recommendations focus on strategic positioning and project design. 1 I’ve seen scores of presentations advising faculty how to write more competitive grant proposals and I rarely hear anything besides these.

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Grant Training Center

MAY 30, 2023

These are learned through experience, various proposal submissions, collaborative efforts with colleagues, and focus and determination. Clear and Concise Communication: Are able to communicate their ideas and proposals clearly and concisely. The end result is a well developed and polished proposal.

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Grant Writer Team

MAY 23, 2024

Businesses and nonprofits need grant writers who are versatile enough to handle any proposal. Writing the Grant Applications: The most important part of your writer’s job is to write and develop grant proposals. The criteria, assessments, eligibility, and content style are all at the whim of your funder, and no two are alike.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 17, 2023

Our Secret Recipe Gone are the days of struggling to understand complex grant requirements and the torment of writing to conform to a grant proposal’s strict guidelines. In this FREE training, you will: 1. Gain strategies to minimize the time spent on writing and revising grant proposals. Watch our free training today.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

We are involved in strategic planning. This gives grant professionals the ability to put forth the most competitive grant proposals, increasing the odds of funding your organization’s good work. Consider attending grant training. Grant professionals, successful ones at least, have a seat at the leadership table.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal.

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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 10, 2020

To develop this culture, institutions should include and encourage this undertaking in its strategic plan, and throughout all areas of the university. Another essential activity is creating partnerships and mentorships between the established senior and junior faculty in order for the former to review proposals and recommend changes.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

You’ll find plenty of excellent copywriting and donor communications trainings out there , as well as copywriting professionals. How your nonprofit will thrive in 2024: Your Plan and Case for Support Your fundraising plan and case for support is more important than ever before. In other words: you have to do the work.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2024

The Imperative: Listen and Learn As grant professionals, we’re inundated by articles, webinars, and marketing messages about AI’s role in prospect research and analysis, proposal and report writing, and more. As with a human assistant, training and feedback are essential. As a busy fundraiser, I kept putting off learning about AI.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Ethics: The Ethics of Program Design: Plans and Partners Session 5 of the Ethics Series Creating a high-quality grant proposal can be challenging when organizations may also be designing the program at the same time. Full participation in this training is also applicable for 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

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Grant Training Center

APRIL 15, 2024

Evolving Donor Priorities : Donor priorities may shift over time due to changes in political, economic, or social landscapes, which require grant writers to adapt their proposals accordingly. This may require taking extra time to learn new software and digital communication strategies to effectively submit their project proposals to funders.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

This series features seven quick guides to support your professional success, including How to Find New Donors and Get Them to Give Again and How to Run a Strategic Planning Retreat. Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals and Perfect Phrases for Fundraising by Beverly Browning.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 5, 2023

Ever felt bogged down by the tedious task of writing grant proposals? With AI, you could be crafting your proposal in under an hour! Quality**: AI has learned from countless successful grant proposals. It’ll give you tips and tricks to make your proposal shine. You’re not alone. And the best part?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The training. Fundraising training. These expenses include: Oversight and management, including the portion of the salaries of the Executive Director and support staff that are not attributable to fundraising or programs (staff meetings, strategic planning, annual meetings, etc.). And fundraising. The print collateral.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

At the least, we want to sit in on these meetings so we can understand the broader organizational context and frame our grant proposals and reports appropriately within this context. As a grant professional, I bring some specialized expertise to the strategic planning table.” Of course, we also want the application to be funded.

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

However, the data also reveals that nonprofits globally struggle to get the most out of their CRM: Interestingly, even though most say that they are not getting the most out of their system, none of the regions rank technology training as a key opportunity that would bring the most value.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Skill Development : The grant application process often equips entrepreneurs with valuable skills in writing proposals and managing funds. This section covers how to prepare a compelling grant proposal and navigate the application process effectively. Engaging professional grant writing services can also provide valuable insights.

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The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 9, 2024

Some other common services include: Fundraising solutions Strategic planning Communications Board and staff training Along with the services consultants provide, you’ll also want to consider the following factors: Founding philosophies: Ensure a prospective consultant’s mission and values align with your own. Ask for a proposal.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 7, 2023

This tool enables you to incorporate credible, relevant research into your grant writing, significantly improving the quality of your problem statements and the overall grant proposal. that provide that training for adults.]” For example: – What are the three main causes of X? – How does X contribute to Y?

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 5, 2023

strategic plans, annual reports, and case studies). Require your brain to think, and then put those thinking skills to use by crafting better grant proposals. Question: What book have you read recently that inspired a better grant proposal? For grant professionals, reading plays such a vital role in our work.

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Fundly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Strategic Planning: By focusing on bigger-picture challenges, these consultants can help you stick to your core goals and improve your organizations infrastructure from the inside. You can bring on Averill staff either in the interim during times of need or the long-term for assistance with training.

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Grant Training Center

JUNE 27, 2022

Fortifying such services as team building, rewards for interdisciplinary research, training of faculty, and content reviews and editing of proposals can go a long-way toward alleviating the effects of COVID-19. The post How Can the Academic Community Recover from the Impact of COVID-19 appeared first on Grant Training Center Blog.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program. A strategic and well-executed plan creates loyal donors who become major and principal gift donors. Step 5: Train Your Team. Getting Started.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

If the program aligns with the organization’s strategic plan and needs pilot funding or was designed in response to community needs within the scope of the organization, ethics aren’t an issue. The best practice is to reduce risk by accepting a salary or fee for grant writing services that are not included in the proposal budget.

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