My new book, Writing With a Mission: How to Create a Successful Career as a Grant Writer” will be available in just a few short days (September 9th). This book is the book that Bruce (my co-author) and I wish we had when we were at the beginning of our careers as grant writers and…
It looks like COVID-19 may be here for a while, which will likely force arts and culture nonprofits to continue finding new ways to reach their audiences and patrons. Since this means that in-person gatherings and programs will be curtailed for the foreseeable future, virtual and online offerings will be king. Of course, that…
This past March, COVID-19 shut down much of the country and arts and culture organizations with it since you can’t really fill concert halls, theaters, museums, and classrooms without putting your patrons (and staff) at risk. But now it’s August, and rather than seeing the improvement and steady re-opening that many of us originally…
During the Coronavirus quarantine, I’ve lost track of how many Skype calls and Zoom webinars I’ve participated in, but let’s just say it’s a lot. Some have been client calls. Some have been calls with colleagues. And some have been webinars from grantmakers and other grant pros. The latter calls have actually been the…
I don’t know about you, but I need a dang break. The last few weeks of being quarantined and navigating this COVID-19 landscape have been incredibly draining. I have more work than I can handle, panicked clients who are worried about whether or not their organization will survive this pandemic (and what will it…
Candid’s Foundation Directory Online (often called ‘FDO’, for short) is one of the many available options for conducting online grants research and creating a grant strategy. However, in order to use it you must have a subscription and that, of course, costs money. So I often hear from many of my readers and subscribers…
Things are incredibly strange and scary right now. Everything seems uncertain, our routines, have been upended, and on top of it all most of us are worried about the wellbeing of our organizations as well. As you probably know, most of my clients and readers come from nonprofits in the arts and culture…
Reading and sifting through the information in 990s is a big part of grant writing (or at least, it should be). But most of us aren’t born with the innate ability, let alone the willpower, to read and interpret long tax forms and locate the information that might be useful for grant seeking. Never…
Grant writing case statements are a beautiful thing. If you’ve never used one for grant writing before, it’s time you started and this blog post is going to show you how useful they are and exactly how to incorporate them into your grant writing for maximum success. First, a little primer for anyone…
In our last blog post, we talked about how to implement the Pareto Principle in your grant writing work. Today, we’re talking about your nonprofit’s website and how you could really think of this post as a Pareto Principle, Part 2 post. As a quick recap, the Pareto Principle states that roughly 20% of…