Be ready when funding opportunities open. A competitive grant landscape means having your organizational documents, project, budget, and key information ready to go. You'll find tools for this part in our Grant Prep section. Once you’re prepared, the Grant Pursuit section can help you identify good grant fits, find opportunities, and navigate the application process. And once you’re awarded, there’s still work to do. Grant Management provides tools to help you manage your project, finances, and reporting requirements.
Local First Arizona Webinars for Grant Prep
Use this section to build your grant readiness. Work through the tools and webinars provided to gather core documents, strengthen board and governance, prepare your program, and develop your basic narrative and budget. Being prepared allows you to respond quickly when the right funding opportunity becomes available. This is especially important as many grants now have short advance notice and application timelines.
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Grant Readiness
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Assessing A Grant Opportunity
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Growth Partners Arizona Program Guide
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Organizational Accounting & Finance for Grant Readiness
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Board Management 101
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Before You Apply: Building Grant-Ready Organizations
Grant Pursuit
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How Long Do Grants Take To Write?
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.
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Strategic Planning for Developing Grant Proposals
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.
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Effective Storytelling
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.
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How to Work With a Grant Writer
Tips from the Arizona Economic Resource Center on preparing to work with our contracted grant writers.
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What is a Budget Narrative?
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?
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What Are Matching Grants?
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.
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Using MoUs to Build Partnerships without Pressure
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.
Grant Implementation
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Post Award Checklist - Foundation Grants
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.
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The Ultimate Grant Reporting Guide
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.