Topic
nonprofits
5 articles on this topic. All posts are evidence-based, written for grant writing professionals, and grounded in the rules and patterns funders actually use.
- 7 min readGrantMind Editorial
Why Most Nonprofits Don't Have a Grant Writing Problem
Most nonprofits think they have a grant writing problem. They don't. They have an operations problem — broken processes spread across spreadsheets, inboxes, and one overworked person's head. Here's what high-performing grant teams actually do, and why systems compound while manual chaos doesn't.
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Post-Award Grant Management: What to Do After You Win
Most grant content stops at "you won." The hard 80% starts after the award letter. A practical guide to reading the notice of award like a contract, building the deliverables ledger, running a separate spending ledger, hitting the reporting cadence, surviving budget revisions, and closing the grant cleanly so the same funder writes you a check next year.
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How to Find Federal Grants for Your Nonprofit (Without Drowning in Grants.gov)
Federal grants are larger, more compliance-heavy, and slower than foundation grants. A practical guide to where federal funding actually lives, how to filter the firehose, and the SAM.gov, NOFO, and Uniform Guidance prerequisites you need before you apply.
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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.
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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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