What is a good grant writing success rate?
Nonprofits and other grant applicants often wonder, "What is a good grant writing success rate?" They're often surprised to learn that on average,...
What is a freelance grant writer’s hourly rate?
A freelance grant writer's hourly rate depends on several factors. The market the grant writer lives in will help determine their rate. If...
How grant writing works
Grant writing can be a confusing endeavor, especially for new nonprofits, or even established nonprofits that have simply never gone through the grant...
General operating expenses and the truth about nonprofit overhead
Overhead, referring to nonprofit overhead expenses, (also known as administrative costs or general operating expenses) is a common buzzword in grant writing —...
The 5 basic steps of the grant writing process
Many new nonprofits (and established nonprofits that have never written grants) are confused about what is involved in grant writing — what the...
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...
Direct versus indirect costs in a nonprofit budget
The budget is often one of the most difficult parts of a grant application. One common point of confusion surrounds direct versus indirect...
Learn about cost estimates to write a grant
How much does grant writing cost? What is a grant writer's fee structure? What's a grant writer's hourly rate? Can I get cost...
Three examples of SMART objectives for nonprofits
We recently discussed the acronym SMART and how it relates to developing strong objectives. Now we'd like to present some examples of great...
How to write SMART objectives for nonprofit grants
In grant writing, we hear a lot about objectives, goals, outcomes, outputs, evaluations, measurables, logic models...