Description
– A Sneak Peak Into “12 Grant Readiness Tips”
Take an Inside Look at the Chapters of This Ebook:
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TIP 1: Have a Current Strategic Plan
A current strategic plan is a critical filter for grant seeking organizations. Strategic plans show grant makers how your proposal is aligned with your organization’s…
TIP 2: Centralize Grant Registrations
Have one individual in your organization responsible for all grant related organizations from Grants.gov to individual online grant applications. Ensure that
TIP 3: Create a Grant Team
When putting together a grant team for an organization, you need to make sure that you have all of your key positions covered . within the players at…
TIP 4: Engage Partners in Pre-Planning
The key action steps to follow in starting a pre-planning process for any new grant opportunity are:
- First, determining who will facilitate the pre-planning process, whether an outside facilitator, internal grant professional, or external grant professional.
- Second, looking at the previously funded applications and the previous RFPs/NOFAs to understand the…
TIP 5: Create Grant Seeking & Managements Policies & Procedures
As with all organizational management tasks, creating policies and procedures ensures consistency in which tasks are undertaken whether conducted by the…
TIP 6: Create a Grant Calendar
A grant calendar is an entry for each upcoming deadline on a shared calendar. ALL members of the grant team can access this and is…
TIP 7: Evaluate Your Impact
Have a consistent approach to evaluation throughout your organization. Utilize the data collected and analyzed as part of your grant seeking s…
TIP 8: Know Your Numbers
Know your organization’s basic numbers that grant makers are looking at when reviewing your…
TIP 9: Get to Know Your elected Officials
Elected officials can be wonderful advocates for your grant applications at the local, county, state and federal level with grant making agencies. In order to have…
TIP 10: Do Your Homework
Time spent on grant maker research is never time wasted. Every piece of information gathered during grant research helps to…
TIP 11: Be Proactive
Focus on creating a proactive instead of reactive grant seeking process and culture within…
TIP 12: Revisit Your Grant Readiness Annually
Grant readiness is a constantly shifting metric as your organization changes and…