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Successful Grant Seeking Starts with a Strategic Plan
In this robust but competitive grant seeking market, what will set some organizations apart? The answer lies not in the proposals themselves but in what precedes them: a thorough and thoughtful strategic plan....
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Hallmarks of Effective Grant Writing
Part 1: Tailoring the Proposal
There’s a saying in the world of grant seeking: “If you’ve met one funder, you’ve met one funder.” Part of what makes grant seeking challenging is that every funder wants something different. The essence of what they want is the same—what...
Federal Grant Writing, Grant Writing Support
Tips for Finding Grant Makers Most Likely to Fund Your Nonprofit
You just know it: there is grant funding out there for your nonprofit. The question is how to find it? The answer is by taking a strategic approach to identifying grant opportunities. We offer you these tips to efficiently and...
Federal Grant Writing, Grant Writing Support, Partner Plan
Five Reasons to Wait on Hiring a Grant Writer
This post by Grants Plus appeared on the Foundation Center’s Grantspace blog. I recently got a call from a board member of an organization with one paid staff person, less than a $200,000 operating budget, and no history of winning grants. This...
Client Spotlight: The Children’s Museum of Cleveland
When the staff and board of the Children’s Museum of Cleveland (CMC) sought to open a new history exhibit, Centuries of Childhood: An American Story, they recognized it was an opportunity to seek major federal grant dollars. Yet while CMC had...
Client Spotlight: Recovery Resources
Recovery Resources is a leading provider of mental health and addiction services in Northeast Ohio. Since 2007, the organization has called on Grants Plus to supplement their in-house development staff with expert grant writing and prospect research assistance. Most recently, the group...
California Workforce Development Board
This Foundation is focused exclusively on job training and opportunities for veterans....
Texas Workforce Commission
This Foundation is focused exclusively on job training and opportunities for veterans....
Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
This Foundation is focused exclusively on job training and opportunities for veterans....
Client Spotlight: EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute
How would your organization use $100 million? That question could be daunting to some nonprofit leaders, but not to Brandon E. Chrostowski, Founder of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute. He’s been turning big dreams into reality...
Client Spotlight: Beech Acres Parenting Center
Grants Plus has worked in partnership with Beech Acres Parenting Center since 2015 and marked numerous accomplishments along the way. But we had special reason to celebrate together in summer 2016. That was when Beech Acres announced a $1.1 million...
Cleveland’s WKYC Channel 3 spotlights Grants Plus for international award
Grants Plus was featured by Cleveland’s WKYC Channel 3 on the station’s website at wkyc.com and also on the daytime news program Live on Lakeside (March 3, 2016) for winning an international 2016 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award from the American...
Client Spotlight: Montessori Development Partnerships
Debbie Hershey Guren, President of Montessori Development Partnerships, hired Grants Plus to identify potential grant funders and provide strategic guidance for a $6.23 million capital campaign to establish Cleveland’s first Montessori charter school. The first priority was to find potential funders...