Right now it seems like every time I come up for air more weeks have passed, and here we are at the end of April. How?! Time has gotten away for me as I have...

When a nonprofit's work is to serve those in need, how do we ensure that people are learning about vital services offered when everyone is at home? How do we...

It is hard to keep track of the days right now (and it is only going to get harder before it gets better). In between the numerous calls from worried clients...

In this day and age your digital presence is vital for fundraising success. As millennials are reaching their 30s (and even 40s) they are becoming the next d...

We were crunching our last year's numbers, and I realized that we had a success rate of 58%. Most grant writers average around 10% - 30%, and I was disappoin...

We all know about how funders want to make sure that the check they write you isn't the last check you ever receive. We've also seen the question about dupli...

My beloved grandmother Leota Schuler never went to college, was never wealthy and was certainly never famous (you've never heard of her, right?) She lived an...

Right around this time through the spring is when there are conferences after conferences on fundraising, nonprofit leadership, specific foundations and thei...

Back in 2009, Apple coined the phrase "There's an app for that" to promote their new iPhone and all the apps that you could download (with only 3 GB of memor...

We've all been there. Laundry has piled up. Your car needed an oil change yesterday. Your kid needs to be driven to soccer practice. You're trying to schedul...

When I started Sharpshooter nearly a decade ago, I never thought that I would end up here: developing a new software for grant writers, consistently gaining ...

Full disclosure: I have made every single one of these mistakes. I can guarantee that every person who has ever written a grant has made these mistakes. With...

I get a lot of phone calls (in case you couldn't tell) from people who want to know how to get money for their organization from funders they do not know or ...

It seems like every week I say, "This is the most asked question I receive." This week is no exception because I am constantly asked, "How do I know if I'm r...

*Phone rings* "This is Dana." "Hi, Dana. It's X. We have a new development director. Again." Over my 30 year career, I have received this phone call more tim...

Send a few emails, make a couple calls and maybe attend a funder's event or conference then you're golden right? Stewardship made easy! Well...not really. Th...

I receive tons of calls and emails from people who are under many impressions that are simply not true when it comes to grant seeking. All of those people ar...

At least once a month, I have a conversation that starts like this: "We are a small/poor/start-up nonprofit and we just don't have the funds to pay for grant...

Fact: Babe Ruth had a 66% fail rate at bat. That's right. He failed most of the time. So...why isn't he considered a failure? When he got a hit, there was a ...

We kicked off the federal grant proposal six weeks before the deadline with a team meeting. During the meeting, we determined the scope of the project, draft...