FUNDED Articles - grantseeking

Building Leverage Through Matching Funds

devteam@grantsoffice.com (Grants Office, LLC) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Cost-sharing can be tricky waters for applicants to maneuver. Cost-share or match components vary greatly between different funding programs. While some grants require a certain percentage of the total project cost in the form of a local cash match, others may allow in-kind matching, and still others may not require a match at all. In these lean financial times, you may lurch at the idea of coming up with funds to match the grant; after all, you are seeking grant funding because you can't fund the project on your own, right? However, there are several important aspects to consider with regard to matching, and you might want to hold off on tossing that grant aside before fully considering these pointers.

Getting a Head Start on Grantseeking in 2012: What You Need to Know to Prepare

devteam@grantsoffice.com (Grants Office, LLC) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

September can be an important marker for a lot of yearly transitions - students from kindergarten to graduate school return to the classroom, Fall begins, Monday night Football returns. However, for public agencies and nonprofit organizations, it should also herald the start to a new season of grantseeking.

Investing in Our Students: An Interview with the Top-Scoring Grant Applicant from Investing in Innovation

devteam@grantsoffice.com (Grants Office, LLC) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Regina Renaldi is the Executive Director of Priority Programs at St. Vrain Valley School District in Colorado. St. Vrain received the highest scoring application in the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition. Ms. Renaldi was generous enough to sit down and discuss with us the i3 grant and St. Vrain's grantseeking in general. This is our conversation.

Building Long-Term Grantseeking Strategies

devteam@grantsoffice.com (Grants Office, LLC) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 GMT

As many of us know, the release of a grant program’s guidance document usually occurs roughly six weeks before the grant’s application deadline date. In the event that a current deadline is missed, common practice indicates that a would-be applicant should be targeting a submission to the next available offering.
Don’t approach this “down time” with idle hands–understand that there is always important work to be done with the next submission in mind.