Alex Dunn’s work won the Fort Worth/Arlington/Tarrant County Continuum of Care over $4 million grant to end youth homelessness. The Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project aims to fuel innovation to prevent and end youth homelessness across the United States. Only 33 …
Often, people ask me about the difference between individual giving and foundation giving. They want to know if they can focus on individual giving only instead of foundation grants. What I say is that for most nonprofits, individual giving is …
Are you begging for grant money? In the past, I have talked about the importance of positioning your organization for success in your grant applications. A lot of nonprofits I work with approach funders like Oliver Twist, begging for money. …
Often, people ask me what foundation grant funding will do in the future. I dust off my crystal ball, check my gut, synthesize my ongoing research, and make a prediction. I have predicted before that foundation grants will be tighter …
The most important thing you can do when you want grant funding is to position your program for grant success. What does that mean? It means to think about your program from a funder’s perspective and to make it easier …
Where are foundation grants going in 2021? Let’s look into the crystal ball. The difficult part about foundation grants is that all of the data we have on foundation giving is often 18 to 24 months old. Foundations file their …
Without a doubt, 2020 has had challenges no one expected. It was a hard year. We had shut downs. We had a pandemic. We had racism. We had hatred and division. We had an election. We had economic upheaval and …
What are the three most popular foundation grants right now? The difficult part about foundation grants is that all of the data we have on foundation giving is often 18 to 24 months old. Foundations file their IRS Form 990 …
The most common foundation fiscal year is January 1 to December 31. This means that many foundations are approaching the end of their fiscal year and their deadline for foundation grant distributions. The time to apply is now! The time …
To win more grants, you need to persuade funders. Persuasive grant applications win more money. In the second part of this micro-learning, I will walk you through the final three elements of persuasion and why you should be including them …
