Author: Nancy Vaughan Communication is a powerful tool, and the telephone is the ideal vehicle to open the lines of communication with your funder. The number one rule of engaging … Continued
Author: Nancy Vaughan The team at Strategic Grant knows the importance of carefully researching every prospective funder you are intending to submit an application to, before you prepare your application. … Continued
Author: Karleen Gwinner I worked with a client recently to help them develop a grant application for a lifesaving project. This organisation has a transformative purpose, a clearly articulated approach … Continued
Author: Karleen Gwinner How do you build your organisations capacity to learn so you actually increase the ability to achieve your mission and the results you want to achieve? Learning … Continued
Author: Lindy Fentiman When I was a child (and secretly as an adult) one of my favourite things was a magic show. I remember all that glamour, mystery, swirling … Continued
Author: Kate Sunners Gladstone Regional Council has been working with Strategic Grants to centralise and streamline their grant-seeking. We pulled the wonderful Tegan McDonald away from her two roles as … Continued
Author: Clint Dunstan Last week I was invited to participate in one of our NZ nonprofit partners’ bi-annual planning session as a consultant to their fundraising team. This regional division … Continued
Author: Karleen Gwinner Applying for grants is hard work. Particularly when you consider that only 20% of your time is spent on the task of writing a successful proposal. There are … Continued
Author: Nancy Vaughan Oh my goodness, it’s already the end of January! How did that happen? What is it about time that is so evasive and contrary? It expands … Continued
Author: Kate Sunners I have seen so many fantastic podcast and video resources for fundraisers in the last few months I wanted to share my little library with … Continued
Author: Kate Sunners Being at the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) is like being in a room filled with thousands of mosquitos. The buzz was audible from the … Continued
Author: Kate Sunners We’ve recently had two of our nonprofit partners achieve the ultimate KPI of a grants program: being approached by their Funders for repeat funding, resulting from their … Continued