Don't Let Grants Stress You Out
Grantitude Grantitude is a term that’s been coined by the grant writing community. There are a few different definitions floating around out there (check out #grantchat’s definition here, or SNF Writing Services definition here) but for this blog, I’m using the following: Grant-it-ude /noun/ a way of acknowledging or appreciating a generous funding given to an organization. “She felt a deep sense of grantitude when…
This is our final of four posts about grant success and rejection. How to celebrate, learn and grow from both. If you missed the previous posts, you can catch up on Celebrating Grant Success by Briana Popek (here), When a Win Looks Like a Win by Nicole Sibilski, GPC (here), or Handling a Grant Rejection (here). One of my favorite grant success stories was…
Today’s post from guest blogger, Julie Boll, GPC is the continuation in a series about grant wins and rejections, and how to celebrate and learn from both. If you missed the first two posts, you can catch up on Celebrating Grant Success by Briana Popek (here) and When a Win Looks Like a Win by Nicole Sibilski, GPC (here). We wish we could fund all…
*Note from Diane: Today’s post from Nicole is the second in our series talking about grant seeking success. Did you miss Briana’s post Celebrating Grant Success from last week? Catch up here. When it comes to grants, it seems that “success” and “failure” is a binary distinction. Winning the money equates success. Not winning the money equates failure. Seems simple enough. It isn’t. With…
Note from Diane: Briana’s post today, “Celebrating Grant Success” is the first in a four-part series where different colleagues share their perspectives on celebrating grant success and also on handling and learning from grant rejections. There is no instant gratification in grant writing. Celebrating success is as much about a successful process as it is a successful funding outcome, the latter of which often does…
Your nonprofit is grant ready. You have a list of grantmakers to approach. And now it is time to put the grant application together. It can be overwhelming. So how do you know what to include in the grant application? Here is a hint. Most grantmakers have guidelines and regulations you must follow. Use their guidelines as a guide for the grant application. And avoid…
What do you do when you’ve been writing the same line for 20 minutes? When you’ve used the same adjective to describe an organization 17 times in one paragraph? When that nagging feeling creeps up on you and you begin to wonder if you’ll ever be able to finish a grant. Yup, it’s writer’s block and it happens to the best of us and probably…
Regardless of how long you have been in the grant writing field, as a grant professional, there are always huge benefits for serving as a grant reviewer. I started my career as a grantmaker, I was a Program Officer at the Michigan Women’s Foundation, something I have written about here before. In the years since I left grantmaking as my full-time work and started working…
We get questions like, “Should your grant seeking organization or nonprofit take time to apply for small grants?” and the follow-up questions including “Are they worth it?” or “Do they actually *cost* your organization money?” frequently. These are all great questions for an organization to be asking themselves before they dig in on a new application. Grants are never “free” money – whether large or…
What do you say when someone new to the field broadly asks you, “Do you have any tips to help me be successful with grant writing?” I often joke back that they don’t want to get me started unless they have all day! The reality is, there is no *one* piece of advice or tidbit that is going to make you successful with grants. There…