This article is sponsored by Grant Holster. You've got a proposal timeline approved by the team. Things are looking good, and you should...

Here’s a secret (if anyone asks, you didn’t hear it from me.) About 80% of every grant application you complete is the SAME information...

Are Federal Grants About to Get Easier?

No matter what your role -- board member, executive director, grant professional, program staff -- you play a part in making sure that...

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...

How to write a grant in 10 steps

Grants for Individuals

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...

(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...

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%,...

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...

My beloved grandmother Leota Schuler never went to college, was never wealthy and was certainly never famous (you've never heard of her,...

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...

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....

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

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...

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,...

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!...

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...