The Essentials of Finding and Applying for a Grant
If your organization needs funding, you may feel intimidated by the search for grants, not to mention applying for those grants. But you just need to know where to look and how to focus your energy — and, of course, how to actually apply!
How to Create a Funding Plan for Your Organization
Laying out a funding development plan is the first step to becoming proactive in grant seeking and grant writing. Both non-profit and for-profits organizations can benefit from a good plan for getting [more…]
How to Find Grant Funding for Your Organization
The best way to sustain a high funding success rate is to identify multiple funding sources for each project initiative. Then submit your grant proposals to all of them. Sending out multiple proposals [more…]
How to Prioritize Your Potential Private Funders and Grant Applications
After you identify the potential private funders that are the best fit for your program, you need to determine which funders get your attention first. Prioritize the funders to whom you want to submit [more…]
How to Find Federal Resources to Help You Write Your Grant Applications
Most government agencies that award grants or contracts produce publications that can give you a leg up on writing all types of grant applications and RFP narratives. You can find these valuable resources [more…]
How to Present Your Organization's Qualifications when Applying for Grants
Any funding source you approach will have questions about your organization's legal name and overall structure as applicant qualifications. Understanding exactly what qualifications the application is [more…]
How to Write an Application That Wins Grants
The opening section of your application for funding is a key ingredient of your winning grant, cooperative agreement, or contract bid recipe. When you write your application, focus on the problem you want [more…]
How to Prevent Mistakes on a Grant Application
After putting so much time and energy into your grant application or bid proposal, you may miss fatal writing or formatting errors. Unfortunately, when program officers and peer reviewers reading your [more…]
How to Organize Your Grant Application's Attachments
The attachments to your grant application go in a specific order. For most government grant applications, the attachments are compiled in the order that you refer to them in the narrative you construct [more…]
How to Submit Your Grant Application Electronically on Grants.gov
E-grants are the only way to submit your funding request to many corporations and foundations, as well as to most government agencies, especially the federal government. [more…]
