For more than 20 years, the award-winning Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing program has been helping Hoosiers improve their communities by leveraging grants of all sizes. Participants of the ...

Competitive grant proposals are an increasing key revenue source for nonprofits, educational institutions and local governments. One indicator of this trend is that nationally, giving by foundations ...

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Grant writing is a core part of scientists’ careers. This skill shapes their funding ability and, in turn, their research capacity. However, many researchers find when they set out to write their ...

As an instructor for the Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing program, one of my favorite things to do is ask participants to share a memorable takeaway from the class. Often, what sticks with them are ...

Nora Ellersten, of The Funding Seed, will present a series of three fundraising workshops at libraries this fall. Since 2010, The Funding Seed has worked to help organizations develop skills that will ...

When professors advise early-career academics on grant writing, we often focus on the common mistakes and pitfalls. But up-and-coming researchers don’t just need advice on what not to do. They need to ...

In a competitive world, many nonprofit organizations, municipalities and businesses find themselves needing supplemental funding for their organization or project. While grants offer a unique ...

Chemist David Sanabria-Ríos was no stranger to receiving the cold shoulder from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Several times, he had applied for funding for his research on synthesizing ...

If you’re an academic seeking an applied-research grant, the most-read element of your application will be the “specific aims” page. It serves as the face of your research proposal, and is often the ...

“Back in the third grade, when your classroom had career day, did you dress up as a grant writer? For show and tell day, did you bring a grant writer to class?” asks Beverly Browning, a ...