In September 2020 I penned an article entitled Battling Burnout as a Grant Professional where I shared several resources to help overcome the struggle. My number one suggestion was communication and transparency with your supervisor,…
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Grant Management for Nonprofits: 4 Ways it Impacts Finances
Note from Diane: You know how passionate our team is about thinking about your grant management work (your post-award work) to help strengthen your grant applications (your pre-award) work. It’s why we partner with MyFedTrainer.com…
Top Tricks for Grant Writing With Character Counts
Grant applications with character counts instead of word counts or page limits now dominate online proposals, particularly for private and corporate foundations. Online applications eliminate white-knuckling trips to the post office, emergency toner runs, and…
4 Tips to Maintaining Relationships With Grantmakers
Note from Diane: You may not know that we’ve worked with Bloomerang for numerous years through both the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference which they are the sponsor of, through one-hour educational webinars I present to their…
2022 IGPD Key Takeaways
The #LearnGrants Online Summit was designed for 2022 to help grant professionals from a wide range of mission areas come together to celebrate International Grant Professionals Day (IGPD). Yes, I am incredibly biased as part…
Grant Management 101: 10 Steps to Getting It Done Right
They lie. They steal. They cheat. Search the internet and you’ll find stories abound of individuals employed by universities, local governments, and nonprofits using grant funding for personal gain. What about organizations that break grant…
7 of Our Favorite Grant Resources
Raindrops on roses, And whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things…. Ok maybe we’re not in…
Measuring Our True Impact: Five Questions Your Grant Objectives Should Answer
If you follow the Fundraising HayDay podcast and our social media accounts, you know that I am obsessed with the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Mostly, I’m floored by the number of people who…
Grant Calendar Versus Grant Strategy
Grant Calendar A grant calendar, as we’ve talked about on our blog before (ICYMI: What is a Grant Calendar) is at its core, a visual representation of an action plan for the year, whether fiscal…
How to Write and Win More Grants with the Rule of Three
When Aladdin rubbed the magic lamp, a genie granted him three wishes. “Click your heels together three times and say ‘There’s no place like home’” is straight from the iconic movie classic, “The Wizard of Oz.”…