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

Dana Schuler Drummond
Feb 21, 20242 min read
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Unlocking Grant Success: Filling Your Vault in Six Steps
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...

Dana Schuler Drummond
Feb 8, 20245 min read
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An Easier Federal Grant?
Are Federal Grants About to Get Easier?

Dana Schuler Drummond
Aug 7, 20233 min read
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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 30, 20231 min read
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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...
Margaret Stall
Mar 15, 20233 min read
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Dana Schuler Drummond
Aug 27, 20210 min read
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10 Steps to Turn Your Brilliant Idea into a Grant!
How to write a grant in 10 steps

Dana Schuler Drummond
Aug 20, 20214 min read
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The Truth About Grants for Individuals
Grants for Individuals

Dana Schuler Drummond
Jul 30, 20212 min read
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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 29, 20202 min read
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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
Jun 9, 20203 min read
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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
Jan 6, 20203 min read
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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
Dec 2, 20193 min read
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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
Nov 18, 20193 min read
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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 21, 20192 min read
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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
Oct 14, 20191 min read
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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 30, 20193 min read
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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 23, 20194 min read
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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
Sep 9, 20192 min read
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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
Aug 19, 20194 min read
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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...

Dana Schuler Drummond
Nov 5, 20182 min read
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