Insights: A Deep Dive Into Grants and Nonprofit Funding
Grant Terminology 101: The Basics
There’s a definite learning curve when it comes to grant writing. Experience helps a lot, but so does a good foundation in the basics of...
An Untapped Financial Resource for Start-Up Nonprofits
As a nonprofit consultant, I know just about every nonprofit organization in my community, for better or worse. I'm on all of their mailing lists,...
Five Tips for Novice Grant Writers
Written by Chelsea Adams, KFA Senior Editor I’ve spent the better part of the past 20 years writing professionally. From my first byline at the...
How Do Donors View Your Organization?
Written by Alex Comfort, CFRE Mountain Nonprofit Solutions I have had a truly amazing experience for the past 22 years. I am on an...
Four Skills All Grant Writers Should Possess
A school administrator once asked me, "why can't we just have the English teachers write grants?" Six weeks later, once I recovered from my stroke,...
When ‘No’ Doesn’t Always Mean ‘No’
Written by Alex Comfort, CFRE Here’s a literal $10,000 question. When is it time to give up on past donors or foundations that have denied...
Two Reasons Grant Deadlines are Missed (Other Than Procrastination)
Three Washington D.C. nonprofits received some bad news last week. A deadline was missed, so $3.75 million in federal grant funding isn’t coming. That means...
Measuring Success - A Practical Framework for Key Performance Indicators
Written by Matthew K. Brown, MBA, PE You are preparing to kick off a pilot and the project manager asks, "What should our KPIs be?"...
How to Survive the Sudden Loss of a Grant
Written by Alex Comfort, CFRE Losing a grant with no warning can be disastrous for a small nonprofit. Fortunately, it’s possible to make up at...