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Margaret Stall
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Advocating For Your Grant Budget
No matter what your role -- board member, executive director, grant professional, program staff -- you play a part in making sure that...
Margaret Stall
- Mar 15
- 3 min
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...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
10 Steps to Turn Your Brilliant Idea into a Grant!
How to write a grant in 10 steps
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
The Truth About Grants for Individuals
Grants for Individuals
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Happy New (Fiscal) Year!
It's that time of year again! Well, not for all nonprofits. Or the federal government. But for a lot of organizations we are reaching the...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
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...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jan 6, 2020
- 3 min
New Year New Resolution
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%,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
Yet Another Ranking Site for Nonprofits
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...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Nov 18, 2019
- 3 min
Make Leota Happy - Write a Thank You Note
My beloved grandmother Leota Schuler never went to college, was never wealthy and was certainly never famous (you've never heard of her,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
There's an App for That
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...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Oct 14, 2019
- 1 min
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....
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Sep 30, 2019
- 3 min
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,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Sep 23, 2019
- 4 min
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...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
Are You Ready to Seek Grants?
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,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Aug 19, 2019
- 4 min
Stewardship Made Easy...
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!...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Nov 5, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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