Whether you are a teacher in the classroom, a school district administrator, or a nonprofit organization, writing a winning grant to improve the education of children seems like it would be easy. What funder wouldn’t want to help kids learn? However, those who write grants...
Letters of Support and Commitment Basics Many grants now require attachments called letters of support or letters of commitment. These letters, if created well, can provide significant additional information and credibility to your proposal. Important content to include in each type of letter will be covered...
The credentials behind my name state that I am a certified grant writer with the technical knowledge needed to write a strong grant proposal. I love logic models, evidence-based strategies, and rigorous data collection methods. Those things make my job easier. Yet the clients I...
I have worked with a wide variety of organizations in the last ten years, but I have found no direct program staff more reticent to write grants than classroom teachers. They, like most program staff are "too busy", "don't know how" or "not sure even...
All nonprofit organizations are noticing an increase in requests for logic models, but I believe these requests are more frequent for human service organizations. In addition, I believe human service organizations struggle with developing high-quality logic models more than any other nonprofit sector. A standard logic...
