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What is the best way to reconnect with a previous funder?
Recently, I accepted a position as a grant proposal writer for The Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA) www.cota.org. They do fundraising campaigns, obtain donations from individuals, and seek grants from foundations; that is now my job! I already sent many LOIs out to new potential grantors and have sent…
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Review Simply Generosity
https://www.simplegenerosity.org/ Does anyone have a review they'd like to share about Simply Generosity? It sounds like a wonderful organization, but before we share all our banking information I'd like to research a little. Thank you for your time and efforts,
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Healthy Grant Pro Grant Professionals Survey
Where would your organization be without grant funding? The Healthy Grant Pro Team (GPCs @TrishBachman, @PatriciaDuboise, @JohnaRodgersGPC and me) is researching factors that are critical to maintaining a work environment that supports and retains high-quality grant professionals. To be a part of this new research effort…
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Grant Writing Secrets
This is a discussion thread to ask me questions that I wasn't able to answer during the live webinar on May 25, 2023. Or...feel free to share tips/tricks/strategies that you've found that help secure grant awards! (The webinar recording will be posted here when it's available!)
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Administration or Operating Costs
Our Global Program hires local people to be our Ambassadors to help us run our social entrepreneurship programs world-wide. They are part manager, part teacher and mentor. Can someone tell me if this position would be considered administration in the grant writing process or can their compensation be considered operation…
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Convincing funders quality is as important and quantity.
We are a small international organization striving to teach and support youth and young adults (ages 15-23 orphans) self-love and self-sufficiency through direct experience in social enterprise. In other words, how to create, manage and stabilize a small business. As a startup organization with devoted staff, and a strong…
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State of Grantseeking Survey
Hello! The annual State of Grantseeking Survey is now open, and we're asking you to please take part. This survey spotlights recent developments in funding so that organizations can be more strategic in their grantseeking. The resulting—free—State of Grantseeking reports, published in May, serve as valuable analytic tools…
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Are you responsible for getting grant agreements back to the funder?
This task of signing off on grant agreements continues to be kind of muddy at my org. Drives me crazy. A recent awarded grant had 4 forms they wanted completed. 2 were clearly fiscal in nature, 2 were to be signed by AOR with 8 spots for her initials. The forms were on a merry-go-round from me to fiscal to the PI on the…
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What nonprofit applicants wish funders knew. Input for panel discussion with funders
Hi Everyone, Foundant is planning a panel discussion featuring experienced grantseekers (@LauraCochran, @StephanyHessler, and more!) talking about what makes grant application processes harder (and easier)! The audience will consist of funders who are looking to improve their grant processes and strengthen their…
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Do you have a grant administrator to handle project management (financial & compliance)?
Looking for a job description I can tweak. We will be expanding our grants team of 2 grant writers and adding a grant administrator. Also would love to hear what your experience has been having someone in this role.
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Request for Proposals - Funding Available for Tribal Domestic Violence Survivor Programs
Courtesy post on behalf of The National Indigenous Women's Resources Center Request for Proposals - Funding Available to Programs Assisting Survivors The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center is requesting proposals from tribal/ native domestic violence and /or sexual violence programs in order to sub-grant funds…
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Grants for compensations only
Has anyone written a grant just for Compensation? We are a start-up. The grant I want to apply for supports start-up costs. An Administrator is what we need most. Would it be wise to write a $20,000 grant proposal to go toward a position? Thank you
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Certificates in Grant Writing and Management
Hi Everyone, Hope all is well. Happy Friday! I am new to a grants manager position and was wondering if there were any certificates that I could take or helpful resources. Anything helps. Just looking to obtain more knowledge so I can help the people I serve in the best way :)
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Your Pathway to Grants
What is your degree in and what kind of employment did you have before you entered the grant field? Was your transition to the grant field a gradual one - or a career jump?
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Grant Writing, The Right Way: Keys to Achieving a Higher Success Rate
A space to continue the conversation from our webinar about: Convey your impact with compelling and concise storytelling Write more effective proposals Conduct effective research to help you prepare and spot the best prospects Missed the live webinar? Watch the recording here!
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Influencing Funders to fix their forms. What should they fix next?
Have you heard about the initiative to #FixTheForm? What annoys you most about filling out grant applications? Chime in and let us know. And help give @KariAanestad and team feedback on what should be next! Fill out their survey to give input on what you think should be the next focus:
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Professional Organization for Fundraising Professionals in Behavioral Health/Substance Abuse?
Hi all! Does anyone know of professional organizations geared towards fundraising professionals in behavioral health and/or substance abuse (something akin to NORDP for Research Development folks)?
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Addressing Burnout: The Problem with Passion
At the end of the day, we all want to go home feeling inspired and fueled by a day of purposeful engagement and passionate work. But what if we are already at home? And how does one remain passionate when their work exists in the vague and intangible realm of the digital world? We all experience ebbs and flows and then…
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Let's talk about federal grants!
I'm interested to hear from our community about federal grants. Is your organization competing for and winning federal grants? Or have you been unsure or unready to jump into the federal grants pool? For those who are competing for federal grants, what advice would you give about what makes federal grant seeking different…
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Evidence-Based Programming
There is so much talk about using research and evidence to show that our programs are likely to achieve the outcomes we claim, but many people who write grant proposals are still looking for the best way to do that in different types of grant applications. What grant funders do you think explained what they wanted…
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What's Your Favorite Grant to Write?
We spend so much time, or at least I do, lamenting about the grant proposals with such limited character space, horrible portals, little money for way to much work, etc, etc. I thought it would be a nice change to hear about the applications you love. The ones that work, are easy to navigate, and don't take a billion hours…
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Logic Models: Love 'em or hate 'em? Let's talk!
Hello all - Maryn Boess, Total Logic Model Nerd here! Putting the final touches on the training, "The Change Map and the Logic Model," and got to thinking. I think lots of folks (sadly) have had bad experiences with Logic Models and I get that! But there's a reason I'm a Total Logic Model Nerd - and I bet at least a few of…
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Best Grantseeking Advice?
Looking back on your career as a grantwriter / grant professional - What is the best advice you've received? What's some of the very best advice you would give to someone new to developing grant proposals?
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Examples of addressing the challenge of difficult application forms - #FixTheForm
There has been a lot of great input on how grantmakers can #FixTheForm (see @KariAanestad and the great work GrantAdvisor has been doing here: http://blog.grantadvisor.org/fixtheform/). And it's great to see that several funders are taking action and starting to share their complete application in advance. What examples…
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Career Resilience - Questions
Earlier this week we had a chat with grant professionals about the challenges we face and how career resilience is so important to succeed and advance in the grants profession. We're curious about your thoughts on career resilience. -- How do you define career resilience? -- Why is resilience an important skill to…
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Research on Burnout in the Grants Profession
Hello All! Many of you may already be familiar w/ the incredible work on burnout in the grants profession by Trish Bachman, GPC, Bethany Planton, GPC, and Johna Rodgers, GPC. I'm Pat Duboise, GPC, and am pleased to join this amazing team as we continue studying burnout in the face of the the COVID-19 pandemic. As such,…
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Reports to benchmark your organization and grantseeking activities
What data do you use to benchmark your grant activities and results against? We have partnered with GrantStation as they conduct their 2021 State of Grantseeking study. (Survey closes March 31, 2021.) This year includes a special section to study the impact of coronavirus on your organization and grantseeking. Here is the…
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Evaluation process
This is Kelly in Iowa, Mary Greeley Foundation. New to grant writing here! There is a section for Evaluation process in my proposal and we would use the funds granted for equipment, so how would someone answer this one, when it is not really a program to evaluate?
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Q&A on Grants!
Thanks for attending The 3 C’s to Thriving in a Pandemic webinar last week! When your mission is to help others get grants so they can do incredible things, there's nothing better than having 1,200 people attend your webinar from all over the U.S., Canada and throughout the world. We had a great Q&A session, but even going…
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The 3 C's to Thriving in a Pandemic
Are you tired of the grim statistics? ...that 11-38% of nonprofits will close down within 3 years, or that three out of five nonprofits had to cut costs last year due to the pandemic? Like you, I want to know the latest data, but even more so, I'd like to talk about what we can do to not just survive, but to THRIVE this…
