Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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Professional Grant Writer

JANUARY 10, 2023

The grant budget is often a sticking point in grant writing, whether for a foundation or a large federal grant. The post Aligning your grant narrative and grant budget appeared first on Professional Grant Writer. Inexperienced grant writers.

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Next City

JUNE 24, 2024

Four years in, the initiative has encouraged numerous residents to share their opinions on the city’s spending.

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Death and Taxes

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Blog post by Whitney Afonso, Zach Mohr, and Scott Powell Questions for Practitioners: When (as in time of year) should you engage citizens in budget simulations? Can I expect trust in our government to increase if we engage citizens in budget simulations?

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 8, 2024

Last week, the White House announced the final Office of Management and Budget (OMB) UniformGrants Guidance. This guidance is designed to create a streamlined set of rules and regulations forfederal grants that ensure that Congress, agencies, and applicants have standard language andprocesses for grant awards and administration.

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Professional Grant Writer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The project budget is often an afterthought in grant writing. The post Do your grant narrative and project budget align? When you’re working on a grant proposal, you probably spend most of your. appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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Barrett & Greene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of November, a survey was released that investigated how local government finance leaders feel about their current budgeting practices and their readiness to embrace modernized approaches. One cautionary note, according to the report which was titled Rethinking Budgeting: Results from the Local Government Budget Survey.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

JUNE 29, 2023

One word: budget. In the land of grantmaking, it’s essential to have a budget in place because grantmakers want to know that your financial situation is reasonable and how you plan on spending the money if awarded. The budget should show potential funders EXACTLY where their funds will be directed. Don’t make stuff up.

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Professional Grant Writer

MAY 16, 2023

To successfully navigate the grant application process, it is crucial to understand one of its core components—the proposal budget. With the right approach, The post What is a proposal budget for a grant? appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 14, 2023

The 1953 membership photo of the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) shows a world in which men dominated the positions of budget officers. We've been writing about this field since the early 1990s and interviewed many women, over time, who held their state's budget director position.

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Disaster Zone blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The clock is ticking on getting a temporary budget bill passed

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments.

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Professional Grant Writer

JANUARY 3, 2023

Many people leave the grant budget section for last. They spend time on the narrative, carefully crafting a compelling story, but the budget. The post How do you write a budget for a grant? appeared first on Professional Grant Writer.

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Government Technology Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

Despite the abundance of modern solutions for transforming financial planning practices, agency finance and budget offices have been some of the last areas to modernize. The post Boosting Agility for State and Local Government Finance & Budget Offices appeared first on Government Technology Insider. Click here to get started.

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Barrett & Greene

AUGUST 9, 2022

Without considering the environment in the budgeting process, all the commitments to change will be little more than words. Luckily, there are cities that are transforming the budget process to align resources with climate action. They spoke a whole different language: budget cycles and bond ratings.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When it comes to creating a city or county budget , there are many ways to move forward: whether it’s taking the previous year’s budget and adapting it as necessary, or throwing it all away and starting with a blank slate. There’s no “right” choice when it comes to budget type—only what’s best for your jurisdiction.

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ResourceAssociates

MARCH 1, 2022

Everything you need to know to develop a brilliant grant proposal budget. A grant proposal budget outlines your intended expenses if you are awarded the grant funding, specific to the project or program stated in your proposal. One of the most important elements within the application is the Project Budget and Budget Justification.

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Social Pinpoint

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that lets community members voice how they would like public money to be spent. However, it’s important that the right technology and processes are in place to maximize the full value of the participatory budgeting process. Participatory budgeting can be conducted offline or online.

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GovPilot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Unlike the Federal Government, which can and does run a large budget deficit, most local governments are legally required to prepare a balanced budget. Because local governments cannot spend more than they’ve budgeted each year, preparing a budget is one of their most critical jobs.

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Citizen Lab

JULY 10, 2023

The People Powered Places program is the London Borough of Newham’s flagship program of participatory budgeting. It started in 2018… The post Lessons learned from Newham’s flagship participatory budget program appeared first on CitizenLab's Blog.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Several years ago, we worked with the Volcker Alliance to created a guide to resources about state budgeting intended for use by public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens. ?. You can find it by clicking here : ?

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JANUARY 18, 2023

Right now, many cities, towns and villages are planning for their next budget cycle. This timing presents an opportunity for local governments to consider how they will incur expenses for their remaining State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF), which were provided through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

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OpenGov

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

How to Drive Strategic Budgeting in Government with Performance Management November 29, 2022 – OpenGov Public sector performance management has long held the promise of improving efficiency, productivity, and community outcomes.

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GCN

MARCH 11, 2024

The president is proposing funds to increase tax credits, support construction of affordable housing and reduce homelessness.

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Professional Grant Writer

AUGUST 9, 2022

Developing a grant proposal budget can be an intimidating prospect, especially if you’re not a numbers person. The post How to determine a budget for a grant proposal appeared first on Professional Grant Writer. But it’s incredibly important to do.

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GovPilot

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Similarly to the universal financial stresses of the holiday season, budgets tighten in the last months of the fiscal year. This being so, careful, calculated budgeting must be commenced throughout every phase of financial planning for the year ahead.

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The City Fix

JULY 16, 2024

In the stylish Grünerløkka neighborhood in Oslo, construction workers are busy rehabilitating Sophies Minde, an old medical clinic, into a new nursery school and maternal health center. Tidy piles of building materials along the perimeter of the construction site wait.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MAY 7, 2024

Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor released its final rule on overtime protections that increases the salary thresholds required to exempt a salaried bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employee from federal overtime pay requirements.

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Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Wildfires are dramatically impacting state budgets as they deal with wildfire response, the damages from those fires and ways they might mitigate future wildfires. In this podcast we explore how Wildfires: Burning Through State Budgets which is a report from The Pew Charitable Trusts. These are the topics we’ll cover in this podcast.

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Citizen Lab

JULY 5, 2022

Participatory budgeting — or, in plain English, involving community members in the allocation of public funds —is a powerful tool for cities to empower communities and co-create more pleasant, accessible, and equitable cities.

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Barrett & Greene

APRIL 5, 2023

This male-dominated 1953 photo of a National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) annual meeting would not have been a surprise to public sector leaders of the time. That was followed by two budget directors we knew well -- Kansas’s Gloria Timmer in 1996-1997 and Utah’s Lynne Koga the following year.

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OpenGov

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Strategic Local Government Budgeting: How to Determine Which Method is Best for Your Community September 23, 2022 – OpenGov Traditionally, local government budgeting has not been directly tied to outcomes in the community. Instead, incremental amounts were shifted based on previous use and separated by department.

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GCN

MARCH 23, 2024

The vote in the House and Senate averts a shutdown and brings funding certainty. But several programs significant to state and local governments saw cuts.

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 27, 2023

Budget management is often a top priority when discussing technological modernization, and digital ways of working are often seen as more expensive. However, adopting digital services does not have to conflict with a lean budget. Sharing services and investing in people and processes will save costs and pay dividends later.

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Grant Training Center

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Biden Administration’s FY 2022 Budget for higher education signals support for innovation in agriculture and science, climate change, rural development and access as well as equity via the funding of minority institutions. For higher education, research and development in the sciences as well as equity takes a leading role.

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GCN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Misunderstandings about cloud security, scalability and storage has led to the vast majority of enterprises spending much more than anticipated, a new survey finds.

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Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 31, 2022

At the state and local levels, budgets prove thinner. According to SolarWinds recent annual Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey , 50% of security IT professionals across state agencies and 25% of local governments selected “low budgets” as the leading challenge plaguing their team’s success. Automate wherever possible.

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