Book review: Winning Foundation Grants by M. Teitel I just finished reading a good book by Martin Teitel called "Winning Foundation...

[Phone ringing] Me: Good morning, this is Dana. [Static and mumbling] Me: Hello? Voice: Yep! Me: Good morning! Voice: Hey, my wife was...

I am putting a pin in the Federal Grant Series this week to talk about something important: the Cardinal Rule: never submit a "cold"...

In the course of my career, I've written dozens of federal grant proposals for different departments and agencies. Each time I finish...

Grant-seeking is not it. Let me clear the air right at the beginning. In truth, grant-seeking works best when your organization is...

I have been thinking a lot about chaos, especially after completing a chaotic month. When you are a professional fund raiser, every month...

I wrote a blog post about GuideStar and why the rankings, also referred to as their Seals of Transparency, are important about a month...

“O, woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see!” William Shakespeare. The other day I was working on a federal grant...

A few things are pretty commonplace when it comes to proposal development and reporting. You can expect to include your 990s and audited...

We are only hours away from 2019, and many of us are reflecting on the past year. What did we learn? How did we grow? What successes did...

As we are less than 24 hours away from Christmas, giving has been on my heart. In the spirit of the holidays, I am so excited to share an...

Before we dive into rankings, their importance, and how to improve it, let’s talk about what Guidestar is. Guidestar is the world’s...

Coming off of the Board Series I have been thinking about resources available to help you organize better and be prepared for the grant...

Board of Directors have a legal responsibility to the nonprofit of the board on which they serve, as we discussed earlier, and they also...

For the last two weeks of "The Board Series", we will explore the roles the Board plays. This week? The legal role. Nonprofit boards can...

Before you can effectively implement a grant-seeking strategy, your board must follow particular guidelines and have the proper guiding...

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...