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4 Ways Effective Grant Management Impacts Nonprofit Finances

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4 Ways Effective Grant Management Impacts Nonprofit 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 to deliver grant writing supports and training on both the pre-award and post-award side of things. That’s why we’re thrilled to bring these tactical tips to you from Jitasa to…

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12 One-line Grant Tips

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12 One-line Grant Tips

This Fall when our team got together for a planning retreat, we had fun filming short clips with #grantstips including short one-liners. ICYMI or want a refresher of our tips, here it is for your viewing pleasure:     When I posted the video to LinkedIn, I tagged some of my trusted colleagues in the field to find out what one-line grant tips they would…

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Grammar Kerfuffles Active Voice vs. Passive Voice in Grant Writing

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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice in Grant Writing

Welcome to “Grammar Kerfuffles,” a blog series from DH Leonard Consulting that you will see here on the semi-regular. We will explore fun grammar insights that elevate the power of the written word in grant writing.   If you like “fun” and “grammar” being next to each other in the previous sentence, this blog series is for you. If you do not (yet), hang out…

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Artificial Intelligence and Grant Writing

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Artificial Intelligence and Grant Writing

The world is evaluating whether and how to use Artificial Intelligence (AI). Prognosticators say that the concept and functionality of AI are here to stay, and will most certainly grow.   For those of us whose work is creative, focusing in particular on the grant writing work of our team, using AI represents an ethical gray area. (ICYMI: The Grant Professionals Association has been talking…

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Prioritizing Wellness: How Our Grant Writing Team Stays Mindful and Fights Burnout on World Mental Health Day

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Wellness mental health

As grant professionals, we’re constantly focused on deadlines, applications, and making a difference for the causes we care about. Our team has had an ongoing focus on overall wellness, mental health, and mindfulness, given that our work as grant professionals is very sedentary and has a high rate of burnout. As we celebrate World Mental Health Day (October 10th) we are taking a moment to…

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When Grant Documents Are Ready for a Critique – Copy Editing or Mock Review?

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Yes and yes—a solid grant writing process often includes both copy editing and mock review, but from separate reviewers and at different milestones in the timeline.   Each one ensures high quality, but they result in different types of feedback.   Copy Editing The purpose. All types of grant documents that you create should go through a copy edit. DH Leonard Consulting has a dedicated…

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POV: You Are a Solo Development Professional

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As a tumbleweed rolls by and a hollow wind blows, you pause your strategy work to reflect on the desert-like conditions that define the environment of your development program.   Within your nonprofit, you are the sole development employee among other dedicated professionals accomplishing important work.    You glance around and see your colleagues as they work in their own offices and areas—you can almost…

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Copy Editing: Five Ways to Optimize the Impact of Your Writing

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Copy Editing: Five Ways to Optimize the Impact of Your Writing

Creating written content well as a team requires multiple reviews by various team members or by external copy editors. More than one set of expert eyes on a document always enhances the final product. When possible, assign the work to a fresh set of eyes.   Our team strongly suggests and hopes that you build multiple reviews into your process, whether for grant writing or…

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Grant Tracking: 3 Ways Your Nonprofit CRM Can Help

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Diane’s Note: It’s no secret that our team is a big fan of Bloomerang as we have collaborated for years on free webinars and in the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference community, but they are also a generous supporter of our BIPOC Nonprofit Professional Scholarships for Agile in Nonprofit training.  While potentially a bit biased, I thought their tips regarding how your CRM can help with your…

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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

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Guest post by: Jeff Bauknecht | Grants Manager | The Museum of Flight   Who decides which grants to pursue or to let pass by? Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? As grant writers, we’re sometimes in a position of responding to requests from well-intentioned leadership or program staff to “look at this grant opportunity” or asking, “can you help us find funding…

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