Don't Let Grants Stress You Out
How many times have you submitted a grant application and right after you hit submit you see several mistakes? We have all been there. It happens to the best of us. “Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.” ― Patricia Fuller 5 Tips for Editing Your Full Grant Proposal Be grant ready: You…
Happy International Grant Professionals Week, and an early Happy International Grant Professionals Day! What is this professional holiday you ask? The Grant Professionals Association launched #IGPD three years ago and states that “International Grant Professionals Day and Week is the annual celebration to recognize and show appreciation to all grant professionals.” Last year, I challenged everyone to think about how you as a grant professional think about…
Weaving through what seems to be mysterious threads of geographic funding, there is always a history and a story behind the funding trail. One key to receiving funding from a national funder is to learn the story of its interests and build a relationship with it. Below are some ways to learn about a potential funder. 7 Tips to Research National Foundations Find 5-6 national…
Prospecting for grant funders is a time-consuming task for nonprofit organizations. Yet it is essential. Many nonprofits begin by finding and building relationships with local funders, then regional, then national. If your nonprofit has a solid record of receiving, utilizing and reporting well with local and regional funders, it can be time to extend your prospecting reach. There are several reasons to look at national…
In general, we nonprofit professionals know what the goals are for the year at our nonprofit – securing grant funding and donations to meet the budget, making new partners to increase our program offerings, researching new grant funding opportunities, etc. Nonprofits create strategic plans, annual development plans, organizational budgets, case statements, and other documents to keep them on track. But what are your goals to…
It’s true…#GrantsWork Grant professionals help to change the world one grant at a time. We have been talking about Grant Funding in Action here on our team and our blog for the past two years as each member of our team has had the chance to see some of their grant work come to fruition in ways that they could witness in their own communities…
The answer to “Can’t You Just Write It?” …No, I Can’t “Just” Write It Let’s be honest, one of the phrases that all grant professionals fear is “Can’t you just write it?!?” It is a phrase that both employed grant professionals and consultants hear. It often happens when we least expect it, or from a person that surprises us by asking the question or…
What a fun question….how much coffee fuels your grant writing? We talk about what motivates or inspires our grant writing frequently on our team. We’ve talked about how we build movement into our days in order to inspire writing. We’ve talked about and shared motivational quotes and mantras that can help inspire our work. For many of us, one of the other daily motivators, or…
It’s that time of year again…many take time to make New Year’s Resolutions or follow a similar practice to Chris Brogan and select three words to describe their year ahead. Last year I literally was swimming with sharks to start off my new year and find inspiration. This year, in addition to setting work goals and looking at my professional habits similar to what Bethany…
Happy New Year. Happy 2017. This is the time of year many of us think and set goals, resolutions, plans for the year ahead. The new year gives us a clean slate to start with good habits that will help us reach our goals for the year. In 2016, my professional goals were to attend the Grant Professionals Association national conference in Atlanta and…