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Dealing with Closed-Door Foundations

Gaining entry into the world of closed-door foundations is more like courting major donors than developing grant proposals. While grant professionals may do the initial research, your organization’s board members and administrators may be best positioned to do the personal outreach.

Grantmakers Need to Trust Your Organization

After submitting hundreds of grant proposals, it’s easy to get lackadaisical when completing yet another description of your nonprofit. But don’t do it! Pump yourself up and snap to, because the funder’s belief in the integrity and credibility of your organization will tip the scale for or against an award.

The Board’s Role in Securing Grants

Your organization’s board of directors may be affable and effective, challenging, or down-right difficult, but love it or not, it has a role to play in grants administration. The board’s responsibility to oversee the financial and legal operations of your nonprofit place it at the epicenter of post-award management, but the board also has a role on the pre-award side.

A Love Letter to Libraries

Nearly sacred in their service, libraries are quiet temples of knowledge, safeguarding while sharing books and their new media counterparts. It's so easy to love libraries. Here at The Grantsmanship Center we’ve had the pleasure and honor to partner with library staff across the U.S. for almost half a century.

To Win Grants, Mix it Up

Funders want to hear your story–the narrative of what your organization does and how that work improves lives and strengthens the community. The story may be the hook, but unless you can back-up feel-good anecdotes with cold hard numbers your case for support won’t result in a grant.

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