Gratitude is an important “X Factor” in grant funding. You may have heard me talk before about grant “winning” versus grant “writing”. I believe you could write lots of grants with the belief that the philanthropic community owes you something …
Now may be the best time in recent history to get new foundation grants. Foundation grants are up right now and fewer “usual” nonprofits are applying. Now is the best time to get your foot in the door with new …
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Is there enough grant funding to end homelessness? Alex Dunn, MSW, CFRE is presenting at the National Human Services Data Consortium (NHSDC) Fall 2021 conference on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Only 19 presentations were approved in this prestigious conference, and …
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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 …
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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 …
Read MoreYour Mission Can’t Count on Individual Donations, You Need Foundation Grants
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 …
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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 …