Public Administration Today

Give Proposed Projects a Hard Look

GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

With the American Rescue Plan (ARP) providing a surge of funding for transformation initiatives, agencies are faced with a dilemma: How do you decide which projects are the best investment? But GSA and other organizations have offered other guidance that can help put projects into perspective. Here are some ways of looking at them.

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Document Download Development 2020

Answers to the Most Commonly Asked Questions We Receive about Grants

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Each month, we receive a significant number of emails with questions about how to get grant funding and where to look for funding, as well as more specific questions related to securing grants for particular types of projects. The top question we get asked is, “How does an organization apply for a grant from Peak Proposals?”

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Thinking of Becoming a Grant Writer? Read This First.

Peak Proposals

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

While there’s lots of grant writing to be done and knowing how to write a grant is a valued skill in the nonprofit sector, there’s a big difference between occasionally writing a grant proposal and working as a full-time grant writer. However, you will primarily be contributing to a proposal as one of several writers.

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Follow This Plan and You'll Never Miss a Proposal Deadline

Peak Proposals

JUNE 20, 2020

One aspect of grant writing that frequently trips people up is that most grant opportunities have fixed or “hard” deadlines. To be considered for a grant, you need to submit your proposal by a specific date and time, no exceptions. As the saying goes, fail to plan or plan to fail. Your first step then, is to plan.

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London rejects a version of The Sphere

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The recent blog entry, " Learning from Las Vegas: Round 2 | Planning for Activation and Transformational Projects ," discusses how destinations can't rest on their laurels, they have to constantly focus on refreshment and adding new attract ions, so they can keep up their stream of visitors. Photos: Mikayla Williamson for Bloomberg.

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Do Relationships Matter?

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

JANUARY 31, 2024

Grantegy Process and Relationships Getting to know a funder helps you to understand their mission, goals, and vision for giving. When conducting the feasibility study, we look intently at the organization’s who, what, where, why, when, how, and who cares. One way to do that is by building a relationship with potential funders.

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Writing Your Way to Success: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Grant Writer

Grant Central USA

JUNE 6, 2023

From researching the field and understanding the skills needed to do grant writers, to finding job opportunities and applying for them, this guide will give you all the information you need to succeed in becoming grant writer. So, if you're looking to become a successful freelance grant writer yourself, then this is the guide for you!

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Unlocking Funding Opportunities: Achieving Grant Writing Certification in the Nonprofit Sector

Grant Central USA

JULY 20, 2023

It can be difficult to navigate all the different to write grants and certifications available, but this article will give you an introduction to how having one can help boost your career in the non-profit sector. Additionally, having this certification may give you an edge when applying for positions within the field.

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Become a Grant Writing Pro: Certificate in Grant Writing Program for Beginners and Experienced Writers

Grant Central USA

JUNE 14, 2023

Our Grant Writing Certificate Program is designed to give you the skills and knowledge needed to understand the grant writing process, develop grant proposals, and find potential funding sources.In the course, you will learn the basics of grant writing and how to prepare a successful proposal.

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Grant Writing Certificate: Your Path to Success as a Professional Grant Writer

Grant Central USA

MAY 29, 2023

They can help organizations identify potential funders, research the criteria for each particular grant, write proposals and create compelling narratives that will meet the organization's and the funder's needs. This will give you the chance to learn more about the process from experts, as well as network with other grant writers.

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Grant Writing Certification Online: Pros, Cons, and Best Program

Grant Central USA

JULY 4, 2023

With online training programs, aspiring grant writers can get certified and be better equipped to write grant proposals and secure funding for their organizations. An online grant writing certificate program can be a great way to gain the necessary skills and knowledge to become an effective grant writer.

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Simplify Your Knowledge Management System with Slab

Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

Pretty much everything for-profit businesses need, including tools for knowledge management. This brings us to Slab ( www.slab.com ), which is the focus of this post. Slab is a browser-based knowledge management tool that companies (and nonprofits and educational institutions) can use to create, organize, store, and share information. Business ($12.50

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Eight Years, Eight Lessons: My Roller Coaster Ride with Grant Writing Made Easy

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 2, 2023

The perfect proposal, the perfect course content – it sounds appealing, right? But let me give you the lowdown. I’ve seen some of our well-crafted proposals get passed over. Because we didn’t give up. I learned this the hard way. Perfection isn’t what gets you the gold. On a tightrope.

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Breaking Down the Budget

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. Travel includes travel to implement the project and travel to grantee meetings.

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Free Grant Writing Class: The 7 Steps to Writing Grants

Grant Central USA

MAY 24, 2023

In the free online grant writing course, you will learn the seven steps to making winning grant proposals and how to find grants. You will also have access to extensive course resources on budgeting, legal and ethical issues, and grant proposal assessment. Make your grant application stand out with these materials.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), 'Mesas in Shadow,' 1926, oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 40 inches.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), 'Mesas in Shadow,' 1926, oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 40 inches.

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She Raised Nearly $700,000.00 in Just A Year and a Half - Interview with Elena Esparza

Grant Central USA

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Let's go back and take a look. How do I interpret what am I supposed to be getting from this to then put into the proposal? Elena Esparza So I work for the Tampa squad Inhibition Indians. It's a tribal government just north of San Diego, and I am currently their procurement in contract administrator. You Should Never Doubt Yourself.

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Updating Your Grant Strategy

Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

It’s also hard to predict the amount and degree of competition you might face in any given year for the opportunities you’ve targeted. It’s also hard to predict the amount and degree of competition you might face in any given year for the opportunities you’ve targeted. Grant strategies should be updated at least annually.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It was impossible to cultivate an academic program without long-term investment, and poor working conditions pushed our majority-contingent faculty members to look for work elsewhere. I was looking for ideas of what I might do besides what I had always done, and what my life might be like if I did.

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Creating a Content Library for Your Best Content

Peak Proposals

MAY 13, 2021

Introduction to Content Libraries A content library is a storage site where you save different types of content, including templates, excerpts from documents such as proposals and reports, and even audio and video clips. Nonprofits frequently collect and reuse boilerplate that addresses typical proposal requirements.

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Creating a Content Library for Your Best Content

Peak Proposals

MAY 13, 2021

May 13, 2021 INTRODUCTION TO CONTENT LIBRARIES A content library is a storage site where you save different types of content, including templates, excerpts from documents such as proposals and reports, and even audio and video clips. Nonprofits frequently collect and reuse boilerplate that addresses typical proposal requirements.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Through our work in grant development, we’ve met many faculty members who have not received training on how to find funding or write grant proposals. What Are You Proposing: Is It a Research Project, Or Could It Be a Project with an Evaluation Component? Isn't Project Evaluation Research? This post is lengthy.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

It is my hope that this examination of the OWS and TPM movements in relationship to and in demonstration of Collective Action (CA) will enrich and add to the current body of literature in further understanding sustainability or lack thereof in a social movement orchestrated via social media. Theories of Social Movements and Social Media.

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Give Proposed Projects a Hard Look

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Thinking of Becoming a Grant Writer? Read This First.

Follow This Plan and You'll Never Miss a Proposal Deadline

London rejects a version of The Sphere

Do Relationships Matter?

Writing Your Way to Success: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Grant Writer

Unlocking Funding Opportunities: Achieving Grant Writing Certification in the Nonprofit Sector

Become a Grant Writing Pro: Certificate in Grant Writing Program for Beginners and Experienced Writers

Grant Writing Certificate: Your Path to Success as a Professional Grant Writer

Grant Writing Certification Online: Pros, Cons, and Best Program

Simplify Your Knowledge Management System with Slab

Eight Years, Eight Lessons: My Roller Coaster Ride with Grant Writing Made Easy

Breaking Down the Budget

Free Grant Writing Class: The 7 Steps to Writing Grants

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

She Raised Nearly $700,000.00 in Just A Year and a Half - Interview with Elena Esparza

Updating Your Grant Strategy

Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Creating a Content Library for Your Best Content

Creating a Content Library for Your Best Content

Finding Funding for Research

Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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