All posts by: kristakurlinkus

One of the greatest challenges in writing is to clearly communicate complex ideas. This is particularly true in grant writing, as there are often many components to the need an organization is addressing and many facets to their programs. In...
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I can’t tell you enough how important it is that nonprofits take advantage of the current grantseeking environment. There are so many new openings for first-time grantseekers to get grants, especially from bigger funders. But I still see these 4...
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For years, I have felt called to make Grant Writing Made Easy even more accessible to nonprofits and individuals with low incomes/income instability. I used to sell the course at the discount of $497 or 6 required payments of $97....
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What does a day in my life as a grant writing consultant look like? To be honest, it has changed a lot since I had a baby last fall and even more since the quarantine. But those are factors that...
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We’re going deep on budgets in this post because we’ve still been getting a lot of questions about budgets after our last post on them. And it’s no surprise. For many grant writers, this is the most challenging piece of...
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Rhetoric. You might think of that term in the context of exclamations about how tired people are of all the rhetoric about X topic. . . but the term rhetoric doesn’t actually mean insincere or facetious claims or opinions. Rhetoric...
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When designing any program or project for your nonprofit, it’s essential to plan how you will monitor and evaluate that program. Grantmakers will ask you to explain exactly how you will do that, but even more importantly, designing the monitoring...
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After years working with hundreds of clients and students around the country, I’ve learned that most nonprofit leaders are aware there are steps they need to take before they’ll be eligible to apply for grants, but they’re not always sure...
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Over the past two months, I’ve had a lot of conversations with leaders of small nonprofit organizations about growth. They come to me with big dreams of receiving grant funding to expand their programs and make a bigger impact. I...
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