For years, I have felt called to make Grant Writing Made Easy even more accessible to nonprofits and individuals with low incomes/income instability. I used to sell the course at the discount of $497 or 6 required payments of $97....
What does a day in my life as a grant writing consultant look like? To be honest, it has changed a lot since I had a baby last fall and even more since the quarantine. But those are factors that...
We’re going deep on budgets in this post because we’ve still been getting a lot of questions about budgets after our last post on them. And it’s no surprise. For many grant writers, this is the most challenging piece of...
Rhetoric. You might think of that term in the context of exclamations about how tired people are of all the rhetoric about X topic. . . but the term rhetoric doesn’t actually mean insincere or facetious claims or opinions. Rhetoric...
When designing any program or project for your nonprofit, it’s essential to plan how you will monitor and evaluate that program. Grantmakers will ask you to explain exactly how you will do that, but even more importantly, designing the monitoring...
After years working with hundreds of clients and students around the country, I’ve learned that most nonprofit leaders are aware there are steps they need to take before they’ll be eligible to apply for grants, but they’re not always sure...
Over the past two months, I’ve had a lot of conversations with leaders of small nonprofit organizations about growth. They come to me with big dreams of receiving grant funding to expand their programs and make a bigger impact. I...
Learn exactly how to find the perfect grant. Here are the steps you’ll learn:
1. Understand the different types of funders and who they support
2. Determine if you qualify
3. Know why a grantmaker should fund your work
4. Use grants databases to search strategically
5. Evaluate the opportunities...
Last week on my CEO day (Friday!), I started taking stock of the past year. I’m eager to think about next year’s goals, strategies, and projects, but before I can do that, I need to know how my business did...