Thoughts on Nonprofit Leadership

How to Pursue Government Funding building community support grant writing relationship building

     If your experience has been anything like mine, you learned how to fundraise mainly by doing it. For example, you may have learned the hard way that it takes more than responding to a request for proposals from governmental entities to secure funding. Usually, there are...

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Formatting Your Proposal grant writing

There are more than 1.56 million nonprofits in the U.S., many of them competing for the same funding. How can your proposal stand out from the rest? To stand out, answer the eight questions below, whether the foundation directly asks them or not.

What Foundations Want to Know gave us the eight...

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Grant Writing: What Makes You Uniquely Qualified to Do What You Say You Can Do? grant writing

What Foundations Want to Know gave us the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. We’ve since answered seven of the questions. Grant Writing: What Need Do You Meet?  told us how to describe the needs we want to meet. Grant Writing: How Do You Meet the Need You Describe? explored...

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Grant Writing: How Will You Sustain Your Efforts? grant writing

In What Foundations Want to Know we discovered the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. Grant Writing: What Need Do You Meet? gave us insight into how to describe the needs our program meets.  Grant Writing: How Do You Meet the Need You Describe? gave us pointers on how to write...

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Grant Writing: How Much Does Your Program Cost? grant writing

 In What Foundations Want to Know, we presented the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. In Grant Writing: What Need Do You Meet? we explored how to present the needs you are meeting in your proposal. In Grant Writing: How Do You Meet the Need You Describe? we discussed present the...

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Grant Writing: How Do You Measure Success? grant writing

 In What Foundations Want to Know, we presented the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. We talked about writing your needs assessment in Grant Writing: What Need Do You Meet? and writing about the program you want funded in Grant Writing: How Will You Meet the Need You Describe?...

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Grant Writing: How Do You Define Success? grant writing

 

In What Foundations Want to Know, we presented the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. Two weeks ago we explored the question What Need Do You Meet? Last week, we talked about answering the question How Will You Meet the Need You Describe? Today, we delve into how you can...

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Grant Writing: How Will You Meet the Need You Describe? grant writing

 

In What Foundations Want to Know we presented the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. Last week we explored the question What Need Do You Meet? Today, we discuss how to write about the program you want to implement that meets that need. In other words, the program you want the...

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