Is Your Nonprofit Grant Ready? The Ultimate Readiness Guide by Instrumentl.

Tips on how to assess a grant opportunity provided by Carolyn Owens, Grant Writing Consultant.

In this article, we will provide some insight into whether or not grants are worth pursuing in general and help you understand how to evaluate if a particular grant is worth going after. Continue reading to learn why grants are worth the effort and how to balance your time and help make your organization successful.

This tool is meant to guide you through an iterative process of identifying the best fit funders for your nonprofit. Remember, successful grant seeking starts with you having a grants system and strategy.

This guide provides four strategic financial tips to empower nonprofit leaders with the knowledge and tools to build a robust economic foundation for their organizations.

The Kohala Center compiled this general list of items you may need as you complete a grant application. They’ve also created a timeline template to help keep you on track for a future project.

Tips from the Arizona Economic Resource Center on preparing to work with our contracted grant writers. Use this comprehensive checklist to help guide you through the grant application process.

High-level overview of what you’ll need to do to be better prepared to win and implement federal grant funding.

The Arizona Economic Resource Center hosted a panel webinar with federal grantors, including a live Q&A. Review the recording for key insights from these major funders.

In this article, we will discuss the question of how long do grants take to write and break down the answer by certain types of grants. We will also include some tips on how to speed up the grant writing process and how to manage your grants more efficiently.

A reference overview of the grant development and submission process that can help you think through whether your project is ready to compete for grant funding.

Katie Rotramel of the Humane Rescue Alliance and Whitney Brimfield of Spark Point Fundraising discuss Grant Writing 101. This webinar is great for folks who may be new to writing grant proposals and feel nervous or overwhelmed by the process.

Learn how to write a grant proposal step-by-step with this 30-minute training taught by veteran grant professional Rodney Walker.

By integrating an effective story into your grant application, you’ll be one step closer to creating a winning proposal. In this article, you’ll learn how to tell an effective story and incorporate it in your grant writing.

This one-hour webinar will walk you through how to design a program and write a proposal from start to finish.

Grant Writing 101 is an introductory course designed to equip organizations with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the complex world of grant writing. Learn how to effectively communicate your project's objectives, impact and feasibility to potential funders, as well as understand the evaluation and reporting processes once a grant is secured.

Tips from the Arizona Economic Resource Center on preparing to work with our contracted grant writers.

In your grant applications process, you may have come across requests for a budget narrative or for a budget justification. You may be wondering, what even is a budget narrative? And how can I write a good one?

Reviewers look at grant proposal budget details to determine how your project will be structured and managed. Budgets often reveal how well-planned a project is and how feasible it will be to execute. It’s crucial to the success of your grant proposal that the budget be comprehensive, clear and well-written.

If you’ve started exploring grants, you’ve likely come across matching grants and may not know exactly what these are. You may also wonder why you would apply for a grant that requires you to provide your own fiscal resources in order to be awarded.

Often grants are pursued and funded projects are managed with partners, and a Memorandum of Understanding can be a good first step to agreeing on how the partnership will operate. This webinar provides useful information on the purpose and structure of MoUs. It will introduce an increasingly common method for negotiating library materials and services.

Rural Health Information Hub provides summaries of the latest and ongoing funding and opportunities for rural communities, including federal, state, and foundation opportunities.

In this installment of the Nonprofit Accounting Basics educational webinar series, Carolyn Mollen discusses how various departments can work together to effectively manage grant preparation, execution and reporting.

Join Jamie Cattell, the Capability Accountant at Charities Services for this webinar recording which will talk about some of the more common conditions related to grants and practices you can implement to meet them. The webinar covers some basic practices for governance and financial reporting and explains some controls you can put in place to help ensure that your charity stays financially healthy and keeps meeting its funders’ requirements.

This guide specifically made for private grant post-award management will help ensure your organization achieves the objectives you created in your grant application, upholds standard restricted gift accounting practices, meets the grantor’s expectations and prepares to ask for another contribution at the end of the grant cycle.

Most federal agencies require progress reports, reimbursement forms and a final project report showcasing the overall impact. Please do not feel nervous, anxious or overwhelmed. Here is a guide to help you navigate through post-award cycles and most importantly, your assigned federal caseworker will help you through the process as well.

Use this spreadsheet to record all your grant-related expenses. It helps you track how your funds are spent and keep your project on budget.

In this article, we are going to share what you need to know about grant reporting and provide you with some templates to help you understand what is expected of you now that you have been awarded a grant.