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10 Insider Tips for Experienced Fundraisers in Grant Seeking
For experienced fundraising leaders, the key to continued success in grant seeking is refinement and adaptation.
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Abracadabra: 10 Steps to Grants Magic
Winning a big grant can almost feel like magic: a major award can capture attention, summon other support, and even transform an organization or community. What’s the trick to conjuring such success? No tricks at all—just the powerful alchemy of...
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Grant Seeking Teamwork Toward Success, Satisfaction, and Sustainability
Too often, grant seeking is assumed to be the work of a single writer laboring behind a keyboard. But there’s much more to winning a grant than the solitary work of writing the application. Succeeding in all the stages of...
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Congressional Earmarks: An Update for Nonprofits as of February 20, 2019
Are Congressional earmarks coming back? To better understand, Grants Plus hosted an informational forum featuring Lee Weingart, President of LNE Group, who gave the following advice to nonprofits who could stand to gain millions of dollars in earmarked funds for...
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Stop Writing + Start Dialing to Grow Your Grants Program
Building and maintaining relationships with funders is the most crucial role for the executive director in grant seeking. This starts by seeking a conversation with a grant maker well before submitting a grant proposal. A personal phone call is a...
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Grow Your Grants with Gratitude
Grants come as a result of growing relationships with funders not only before but after your organization wins the grant. By making the decision makers at a foundation feel appreciated for giving a grant, they may feel more likely to...
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Checklist: How to get ready for the new year
Maximize your grants success by following these best practice tips! Grant Calendar is Key: Make sure you have an up–to–date road map that will lead your way. Get Your House in Order: Refresh your grant materials for an efficient start. ...
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Donor Advised Funds and Other New Routes to Funding
If you’re relying only on a traditional methodology to get grants the chances are you might be missing out on funds for your nonprofit. Grant making is not untouched by influences that continuously transform philanthropy. Grant decision makers are becoming...
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Spotlight on Giving Circles
Q&A with Jenny Neyer Berg
To learn about the community impact of giving circles, we talked to Jenny Neyer Berg, a local and national leader in collective giving. Jenny is Chair of the national board of Catalist (formerly the Women’s Collective Giving Grant Makers Network),...
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When To Compete for National Grant Funding
“Why aren’t we getting grants from national foundations?” Nonprofit fund development directors may get this question from their executive directors or from members of their boards. It’s easy to understand why nonprofit leaders want national grant funding: grants from national...
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Technology Tips for Stepping Up Stewardship
Congratulations! You got the grant. And as the representative of a conscientious grantee organization, you set a reminder to submit the final report on time. But do not stop there! With so many technological tools at our fingertips, grant professionals...
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Funder ROI: Sustainability After the Grant
Grant seekers often dread the sustainability section of a grant proposal that asks: “What is the plan to sustain the project or program after the grant?” It can be challenging enough to shape the immediate plans and needs for the...
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Do you suffer from “grants FOMO”?
We have the cure.
We hear it all the time: “There must be bigger funders out there for my organization.” “Shouldn’t we be getting national funding?” “When it comes to grants, I feel like we’re missing out.” Do you know the feeling? It’s an...