*Originally published on 6/14/19 by CharityHowTo. Read the original post here. There are so many nuances to be considered when creating a successful grant seeking strategy. Whether you are relatively new to the field of…
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Reflections: Serving on a Community Foundation Grant Review Panel
Explain how you will transform lives, but remember… we will not fund staff. Nonprofit Haiku by Rosie Oldham This fabulous poem from Vu Le’s blog at Nonprofit AF illustrates some of the frustrations in…
Questions to Help You Think Like a Grant Reviewer
This month I served as a grant reviewer for the first time. I had three foundation applications to review in six weeks (a pretty generous time-frame). I will join in the chorus of other grant…
#FOMO…On the Perfect Grant Opportunity
While many on social media may think of #FOMO as the Fear Of Missing Out as it relates to social activities, vacations, and other exciting adventures, when I think of #FOMO it is the fear…
Grant MythBusters
The popular television show, MythBusters, began on the Discovery channel in 2003. Like this tv show which fact checks and dispels or proves urban legends, the world of grants is ripe with myths. Time for…
The National Funder Unicorn
Anyone doing grant research for an organization has probably heard this at least once when discussing research results: “Aren’t there any national funders?” In my experience doing a lot of grant research, most grantmakers…
The Janus Life of Grant Writers
The Roman deity Janus had two faces. One looked toward the past and the other the future. As the god of beginnings and endings, he focused on both the past and the future. Grant writers…
Using an Agile Framework to Win More Grants
Do you want to write twice as many grants in half the time? It sounds like a gimmick, I agree. Yet, there is real truth in the title of the book, “Scrum: Doing…
7 Ideas to Add Creativity to Your Grant Proposal
Are you feeling bored with your grant proposals? Are you getting tired of doing the same thing over and over again? If you are feeling bored, there is a good chance your grant reviewers are…
Digging Deep into the FDO
I have been conducting quite a bit of funder research lately, which has given me an opportunity to further develop my foundation research strategies. My last two blog posts, Developing Your Foundation Research Strategy –…