3 Ways to Kickstart your Grant Research
A better grant win rate starts with better grant research. And better grant research starts here!
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Nonprofit Spotlight: Indigenous Women Rising
Our first Nonprofit Spotlight of 2020! The incredible women of Indigenous Women Rising have a powerful mission: to honor Native & Indigenous People’s inherent right to equitable and culturally safe health. Read this incredible interview with Rachael Lorenzo here.
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Grant Evaluation – What are Funders Looking for?
What are foundations looking for in a grant proposal? As grant writers, we sometimes get lost in reiterating the mission and crafting each sentence that we lose sight of the bigger picture. Find out what foundations prioritize when reviewing your proposal.
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Artist Grants – Everything You need to Know part 2
The second part in our series for artists: get all the information you need to successfully write artist grants.
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Artist Grants – Everything You Need to Know part 1
Are you an artist considering grant funding but don’t know where to start? Look no further! In this first of two blogs we’ll get you started on the basics every artist needs.
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Lessons Learned – 4 Common Grant Mistakes to Avoid
New to grant writing? Let someone else make the mistakes for you. We’ve drafted the 4 most common mistakes new grant writers make and how to avoid them.
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Artist Grants
What they don’t tell you in art school is that being an artists requires a lot of writing. Whether you are writing your statement, proposing a show, contributing to an exhibition catalog, or applying for a fellowship, residency or grant, you are expected to speak about your art, however abstract it might be, with compelling…
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Nonprofit Spotlight: I Support The Girls
I Support the Girls is a DC-based nonprofit that serves women and girls who lack easy access to bras, maxipads, and tampons. We heard from Founder Dana Marlowe about the work they do.
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Let\’s talk Data
It’s no secret, I love data. If you’ve worked with me, you probably have a detailed spreadsheet tracking your win rate and award rates for grants new and familiar; you likely have a stock pile of data points you don’t know what to do with. For me, this information is like a soft feather pillow…
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Grant Writing: What\’s typical anyway?
I was recently working with a client who had a newly formed nonprofit. She started the session by asking “How much money will I have to invest in grant writing before I start seeing returns?” For a new nonprofit, I began to explain, it’s going to be really hard to count on grant funding to…