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Grant writing tips for winning proposals.

Short, practical reads on finding funders, reading guidelines, and writing proposals that get funded.

The three phases of a federal grant: before the award, the award, and after the award, with the main steps in each

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Federal Grants 101: How It Works, in Plain English

New to federal grants? The whole process, from signing up to the last report, with every piece of jargon translated.

A reviewer scoresheet with six criteria and a callout that funding often turns on one point

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What Grant Reviewers Score Before They Read Your Story

Reviewers have a rubric and a few days. These are the seven things they check first, and how to pass each one.

A checklist of documents to gather before writing a first grant proposal, with four of six items checked

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The First-Time Grant Proposal Checklist

Ten things to have in hand before you open the application, so writing is the only thing left to do.

A funder's guidelines with the words must, should, and priority highlighted, turned into a three-row scoring checklist

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Read the Grant Guidelines the Way a Reviewer Will

Guidelines are a scoring rubric in disguise. Read them that way and you know exactly what to write.

A library of reusable proposal content cards, each with the date it was last verified, and one flagged as stale

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Reuse Past Grant Proposals Without Copy-Pasting Them

Your old proposals hold the facts and the voice. Reuse them without shipping a stale draft.