Emergency Funding: Where to Find It and How to Get It
Disasters happen, and it’s best to be prepared for them. Here are some places you can find emergency funding if all else fails.
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Category: Grant Writing
5 Ways Nonprofits Can Negotiate for More Funding
Negotiation can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are five ways you can negotiate with donors and grantors to increase funding for your nonprofit.
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How Startup Nonprofits Can Get the Grant of Their Dreams
There are several ways your organization can get the grant of your dreams. From relationship building, to knowing where to look, here are our favorites.
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Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Grants to Fund Your Nonprofit
If you’re thinking about starting a nonprofit and the plan is to use grants alone to get it funded—think again. So many first-timers think grants are the way to go as their main funding source.
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Where to Find Grants for your Nonprofit Organization
Finding grants for your nonprofit organization is a lot like shopping for a pair of jeans. They come in all shapes and sizes and can be hard to find a fit. But alas, we’re here to help.
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4 Grant Writing Tips to Bolster Relationships with Foundations
Fostering relationships with foundations is a huge part of the grant writing process. Here are four ways to look at grants from the other side and bolster those relationships.
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Grant Writing Best Practices: 5 Tips from 5 Experts
We asked five nonprofit leaders to dish out their secrets and grant writing best practices. Take these tidbits and watch the grant writing process take off.
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5 Times Foundations Cause More Problems Than They Solve
Even with the best intentions, sometimes foundations take actions that are counter to the outcome they – and their grantees – hope to achieve.
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How to Learn About a Potential Grant Funder
Let’s dig in to find out how you can get to know a potential grant funder or foundation in a similar way to how you learn about Brad Pitt.
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The Anatomy of a Great Grant Application
When it comes to writing a great grant application, it’s all about body language. Take it from the executive director of the Peter Kiewit foundation.
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Why You Don’t Need to Worry About the Largest Foundations in Your Region
Large grants from the largest foundations seems like the answer to your prayers, right? Not quite, I say—as do The Fundraising Mythbusters.
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Celebrate International Grant Professionals Day
March 14-18 is International Grant Professionals Week and today it culminates to International Grant Professionals Day (IGPD), a day dedicated to honoring the many hours that go into writing, making and seeking grant projects and proposals—a task that’s often done behind the scenes and not highlighted enough in the nonprofit sector.
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