Way too often, the program design section of a grant gets less attention than it should. A lot of grant writers think, “if I get the grant, I’ll design the program/add more detail to it.” Unfortunately, that’s not the grantmaker’s...

How do you improve upon a grant proposal when you’re applying for funding from the same grantmaker more than once? Whether you’re writing a proposal for a grant opportunity that you’ve won in the past or you’re reapplying with a...

Once you start writing multiple grants for your nonprofit, keeping a schedule for each grant application becomes extremely important.  In this post, I share a guide to designing a grant writing schedule that will help you keep your project moving...

This Saturday, July 18, is my birthday and last month was my 5-year business anniversary (what?! how?!), so I’m feeling reflective. Years ago, I thought 5 years in business would be a milestone that I would celebrate, but last month...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...