Grantseeker Education
Read and watch resources for grantseekers, nonprofits, and grant writers!
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Read ArticleCreating Your Nonprofit's Website: The Essential Guide
Your nonprofit's website is often the initial point of contact between you and your supporters. Maximize its effectiveness by following this essential guide!
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Read ArticleHow to Engage the Right Person, at the Right Time, In the Right Way: A Framework
Scaling your fundraising efforts are the key to effectively managing your donor relationships AND your organizational mission activities. Strategies to help narrow your approach to fundraising can hel
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GPCI Qualified Webinars
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1:16:30Watch VideoFunder-Grantee Relationships: Getting to Impact Together
This on-demand webinar highlights three real-life funder-grantee relationships that have found success in a variety of ways.
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1:04:12Watch VideoMaximize Your Visibility with GuideStar - Tips for (Overly) Busy Nonprofits
Learn how you can optimize your visibility using the Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar and maximize your fundraising success.
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Read ArticleHow to Build a Winning Grants Team Part 3: Post & Off Season
Are you ready to ‘Go the distance’? After wrapping up Spring Training and having a successful Regular Season you’re more than ready to enter Post Season and eventually transition into the Off Season.
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Read ArticleReady! Fire! Aim?
Don’t ask, “What can technology do for me?” Instead ask, “How can I leverage technology to do better?” The right solution should be an extension of your knowledge, talents, and passion..
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Read ArticleSimple Steps to Write an Executive Summary
A well-written executive summary can arguably be the most important element of the proposal. Check out these simple steps to creating an executive summary that is clear, concise, and persuasive.
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1:05:36Watch VideoProject Management & Grants Going Beyond the Checklists
Are you overwhelmed with different workstreams and feel that you could be more effective in how you work? Project management is a term thrown around, but what does it really mean?
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Read ArticleProject Management Is About People, Not Projects
I bet that your daily workload encompasses far more tasks than what is listed in your job description. How do we do everything, and do it well?
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Read ArticleProductivity and Balance: Tips from Foundant
Work life balance is, well, a balancing act. Here are a few ways we, at Foundant keep ourselves feeling energized and productive during the day, both inside and outside of the office!
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1:33:14Watch VideoRe-imagine Your Grant Proposals
Learn to re-imagine how you present basic documents such as your budget, organizational description, and board and staff bios so they add significant credibility to your request.
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Read ArticleShould I Hire A Grant Writing Consultant?
|GUEST POST| Many nonprofits look to an outside grant writing consultant to help them pursue funding from government entities and foundations.
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0:00Watch VideoBuilding the “Total Value” Proposal Budget: A step-by-step framework for thinking differently about what it takes to do the work we do.
An A+ proposal budget provides an honest, complete, and clear picture of the total value of everything it takes to do our work successfully.
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Read ArticleHow to Build a Winning Grants Team Part 2: Regular Season
Now that you’ve had a successful Spring Training and have signed on all the right players for your grants team, let’s strategize for success during the regular season.
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1:03:04Watch VideoTips for Telling (and Selling!) Your Story in Grant Applications
Storytelling is not only a key to successful fundraising efforts with individual donors. Storytelling is a key element for successful grant writing as well.
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Read Article“Field of Dreams” or How to Build a Winning Grants Team
As grant professionals, we all need the support of a team. So how do you start? How many people do you want or need on your grants team? What tools and strategies can you use to build your team?
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Read ArticleGrant writing isn't a creative writing exercise, but. . .
To connect the reviewer for the grantmaking organization to the proposed work, it is important that they understand the larger story of the work you are doing.
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Read ArticleThe (right) picture is worth 1,000 words
Data Visualization is a broad topic and a buzzword that can mean a lot of things. . . and can often be misconstrued or misunderstood. If you want even better retention, consider data visualization
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Read ArticleCultivating an Attitude of Gratitude: Why Giving Back is Our Culture
Workplaces that encompass a culture of appreciation, positive energy, and a sense of value give organizations purpose, direction, and a standard of behavior that motivates teams to aspire to greatness
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4:04Watch VideoPhilanthropy Stories | Ep. 2
Foundant is honored to support Gallatin Valley Land Trust’s efforts to build trails, preserve open spaces, and connect people with nature. #OurPartForThePlanet
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