With Requests for Proposals (RFPs) aka Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) often running between 40 and 100 pages of detailed instructions grant writing seems like endless sets of assembly instructions for IKEA furniture on steroids—minus…
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Shark Week Revisited: Anatomy of a Funded 21st CCLC Grant
My grandson was finally old enough this year to be as excited about Shark Week as much as I am. I love learning about sharks as much as I love being a grant peer reviewer….
What To Look For (And What To Avoid) In Grant Writing Training For Nonprofit Organizations
Originally posted by CharityHowTo July 10, 2019. Read the original blog here. When talking with nonprofit professionals who are new to the grant writing field, or even those who may not be new to the…
Grant Funding in Action: USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Here are three varieties of a fruit or vegetable: Belle of Georgia, Desert Gold, and Empress. Do you know what fruit or vegetable this is? If you guessed peaches, you are correct. I have enjoyed…
Top 10 Grant Writing Tips For Your Nonprofit
*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…
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…