Topic
foundation grants
3 articles on this topic. All posts are evidence-based, written for grant writing professionals, and grounded in the rules and patterns funders actually use.
- 10 min readGrantMind Editorial
Foundation Funder Research: How to Vet a Funder Before You Write the LOI
Most LOIs lose at the research step, not the writing step. The 45-minute due-diligence checklist real grant winners run on every prospect — including how to read a Form 990, what the giving history reveals, and the seven questions that predict whether a foundation will fund your work.
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How to Write a Letter of Inquiry That Gets You Invited to Apply
A 1–2 page Letter of Inquiry is the gate between you and a foundation's full proposal. Here's the five-section structure that actually gets a yes, the three mistakes that kill LOIs in paragraph two, and a template you can adapt today.
Read the article - 13 min readGrantMind Editorial
The Nine Sections of a Winning Grant Proposal (and How to Write Each One)
Almost every full grant proposal has the same skeleton: nine sections, in roughly the same order, doing roughly the same job. Here's what each section is for, what good and bad versions look like, and the order to actually write them in (which is not the order they appear).
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