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An Easier Federal Grant?

Are Federal Grants About to Get Easier?

Budgeting for Grants

I recently had a phone call with a long time client. "Hey Dana! We just finished writing the budget for next year and we set an income...

10 Steps to Turn Your Brilliant Idea into a Grant!

How to write a grant in 10 steps

To Hire or Not To Hire a Grant Writer

(I may not be Shakespeare, but I do have some great lines every now and then.) It seems like we are getting tons of requests along the...

Let's Talk About Grants

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....

Qualities of a Great Grant Writer

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

Five Common Grant Mistakes

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...

Outputs and Outcomes: Understanding the Difference

Outputs and outcomes can be easy to confuse as they can both speak to various aspects of an organization’s program goals. In order to...