Understanding the lingo of nonprofit finances
The best way to understand how a foundation awards a grant is to look at that grant money as an investment. The foundation...
Grant readiness tips
How to start measuring outcomes for grants
It's important for any nonprofit to measure their effectiveness at solving the problems they're addressing. But it's especially imperative for a nonprofit to...
Get organized before you apply for a federal grant
If your nonprofit is even thinking of writing a federal grant, it's important you take a step back and make sure you have...
Proving your nonprofit’s qualifications in a grant
If you think about a grant as an investment by a foundation or government body, it's easy to understand why that entity would...
Use data to strengthen your grant writing
All nonprofits and their programs should track basic demographics of clients that participate in their programs at a bare minimum. More and more...
What are outcomes versus outputs in grant writing?
Grant writing can involve a frustrating set of jargon — terms like goals, objectives, outcomes, outputs, and a great many more. Even if...
The top 4 grant writing mistakes
Grant writing is extremely competitive; even the best prepared organizations often fail. To increase your chances of success, here are four common grant...
Resources to get started with grant writing
Nonprofits are often eager to get started with grant writing. And often, we advise a cautious approach. Grants are extremely competitive, with an industry...
The importance of grant readiness
We have lost track of how many nonprofits write to our team hoping to hire a grant writer, only to find out they're...
How to write the chosen intervention section of a grant
We've talked a lot about using evidence to establish the need or the problem your nonprofit is working to solve. You need to...