Most people fall into grant writing almost by chance. Maybe someone recognized your writing skills and voila! You were “voluntold.” Perhaps you were coordinating a community program or project for a nonprofit or local government…
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Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants
My Fundraising HayDay podcast co-host and dear friend Amanda Day experienced a new way of looking at things during a recent vacation. While the new ice cream flavors and beautiful seascapes she discovered along the…
The Right Time to Apply for a Grant
The check-in meeting had already run an hour over. Together, we navigated the choppy seas of registration through login.gov, sam.gov, and grants.gov for the executive director (ED) and the chief development officer. I was discussing…
Need Is Not Enough To Win Grants
I’m a sucker for a quiz. From dubious quizzes about your soul mate in 1980s women’s magazines to Buzzfeed’s endless supply of “decorate your dream house, and we’ll guess your eye color,” I’m always game…
Winning More Grants: Asking for a Friend
We all get the joke by now. “Asking for a Friend” is now a much easier way of saying, “I am afraid or a little ashamed by what I don’t know or don’t want to…
3 Essentials For Nonprofit Sustainability You May Have Missed
Which do you like first, the good news or the bad news? But before you answer, what if I told you that the good news is also the bad news? How you or your…
An Introvert’s Top 3 Tips for Approaching Grant-making Foundations
Many people become grant writers because they’re better with words than people. And by many, I mean me. You too, maybe? Seriously though, in my 25+ years in nonprofit fundraising, I have met many more…
Three Tips for Better Grants Through Storytelling AND Data
Once upon a time in the kingdom of Grantlandia lived a lonely grant scribe who yearned to convince King Thomas the Tightfisted and Queen Attachmentia Excessiva to release their treasure to the people so that…
Find More Grants By Rethinking Capital Campaigns
Atlanta traffic is a stone-cold fact. Explosive population growth, aging roads over capacity, and an insufficient public transit system united to spawn snarls of bumper-to-bumper traffic that has spilled over from traditional rush hours. Getting…
Become a Stronger Grant Writer Simply by Addressing DEI
Maybe it’s human nature. Maybe it’s cultural. Maybe it’s Maybelline. But seriously, why have I wasted so much time thinking in strict dichotomies? Either/or thinking has stopped or slowed some major career choices such as…