Back in the aughts, I was a newly hired manager of corporate and foundation relations at a food bank with the directive to aggressively grow grant funding—by at least 25% in my first year. The…
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Where in the Organization Chart Does Your Grant Professional Belong?
Where do you belong in your organization? Who do you report to? And does your boss even understand the world of grants? The answers vary with every grant professional. We bring in funding for…
How to Feel More Confident When Reviewing RFPs
Reviewing funder guidelines, especially large government guidelines, comes with a fair amount of pressure not to miss a key detail or misinterpret an organization’s eligibility, alignment, and overall competitiveness with the opportunity. There is the…
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…
The Nonprofit World is Messy, and So Are We
Y’all. Have you ever met someone, and loved what they were sharing so much, that you could just sit back and listen to their stories for hours? That is exactly how I felt when Julie…
4 Tips for Leveraging Data in Your Grant Report
Note from Diane: Grant reporting is a key part of the grant life cycle if you want to build and maintain strong grantmaker relationships. You’ve seen our team share information from MyFedTrainer.com, podcasts on the…
Improve Your Grant Success with the Help of Elected Officials
For the first 15 years of my career, I served as the lone grants administrator for two municipalities in the Metro Atlanta area. I quickly learned about the power of relationships, particularly when building programs…
3 Ways to Celebrate Being a Grant Professional
One of the things I love about the grant profession so much is the diversity of backgrounds that bring people to the field of writing grants. If you talk to five different grant writers/grant professionals,…
The Power of Relationships for the Lonely Grant Writer
If you listen to the Fundraising HayDay podcast or know me some other way, you will quickly learn that I am an EXTRA extrovert. People are my passion, my jam, my lifeblood. As far as…
17 Favorite Grant Resources
Year 17! Our team is so excited to be celebrating 17 years of supporting incredible nonprofits creating impacts in their communities. Since 2006, we have helped secure over $104.5M in grant awards and trained…