Good writing matters. That might seem like a no-brainer, but it’s an issue that just isn’t covered enough in most grant writing instruction. Don’t get me wrong: grantmakers typically won’t judge your proposal for writing quality and style the same...

I have to admit something. For as long as I’ve been a grant writer, my outrage at the nature of grantmaking and grantseeking has been boiling just below the surface. It is, quite literally, the rich requiring the poor to...

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...

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...