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Why Strategic Planning Should Include the Grant Writer Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, February 08, 2012 (1 years 95 days ago)
For the sake of improved organizational effectiveness and in order for the strategic planning process to be optionally beneficial, grant writers should be an integral part of all top-level planning sessions.
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Is Your Needs Statement Naughty or Nice? Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, January 18, 2012 (1 years 116 days ago)
I offer you a checklist of what makes a needs statement naughty and a discussion on how to make it a little bit nicer. After all, this section is arguably the most important one in your grant application.
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Proving Sustainability: It’s Not Just in the Words Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, November 03, 2010 (2 years 192 days ago)
The nonprofit world has a new buzzword: sustainability. Although it sounds good on paper, the term has many seasoned grant professionals scratching their heads. Not because they don’t know what it means (which they sometimes don’t), but because they typically don’t know quite how to demonstrate it within their organizations. At a time when funders are increasingly asking applicant nonprofits to prove that they are indeed sustainable, everyone from executive directors to grant professionals to front line nonprofit staff are feeling the heat. And they are scrambling to understand this new ideology when they are already stretched to the limit.
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Test Your Collaborative Powers Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, July 07, 2010 (2 years 311 days ago)
Let’s be honest: how many times have you – a grant professional – looked at a grant’s requirements and thought “we would be perfect for this if only we had a partner”? How many times have you tried to convince your program or executive director that a partnership with another area nonprofit could be the ticket to a major grant? How many of you have found that in your experience, a large number of grant opportunities that come across your desk are only applicable to collaborating nonprofits?
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Community Analysis is Key to Getting Funded Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, March 24, 2010 (3 years 51 days ago)
A dirty word in the nonprofit sector for several decades, “business planning” is now becoming more acceptable and even desired by nonprofit leaders and funders alike. The good news is that grant professionals are in a unique position to encourage business planning before developing new programs or expanding old ones, and especially before pursuing grant opportunities.
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Are We Ready to Apply for Grants? Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, February 10, 2010 (3 years 93 days ago)
If I had a penny for each time a client has instructed me to “write some proposals and get some money,” I would be swimming in pennies. It seems to be the rallying cry for countless organizational leaders who fail to realize that writing and submitting proposals needs much more preparation and groundwork than just writing and submitting alone. One of the key elements to getting funded is determining whether the organization is ready to apply. Contrary to popular opinion among non-grant professionals, one cannot and should not apply to every funder that exists within a hundred-mile radius.
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Sharing Bad News with Funders Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, November 04, 2009 (3 years 191 days ago)
Grant professionals often become so focused on writing the proposal that the grant award receives comparatively little attention – at least by the grants department. After mailing the funder a thank-you letter, the paperwork is sent to the program staff and the check is deposited by the accounting department. From that moment on, the torch is officially passed to those outside the grant office.
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The Grant Professional’s Role in Program Design Contributed by:
Saadia FaruqiWednesday, October 14, 2009 (3 years 212 days ago)
More than any other section of a proposal, program descriptions can be the biggest headache for grant professionals. Countless times I have asked myself questions as I start writing descriptions of a nonprofit’s intake procedures, evaluation plans, or other program aspects. “How can they ever accomplish this?” “Who thought of that?” And sadly, “Are you kidding me?”
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