Celebrating International Grant Professionals Day! Thank you for all you do for your organization and community.

Last week we talked about why you should connect with your grant funders; this week we talk about how to connect with them. What questions should you ask? How do you develop these relationships?

Learn three reasons why you should reach out to potential grant funders to make your grant seeking activities more efficient and effective.

Love them or hate them, online grants forms are here to stay. Personally, I'd much rather wrestle with technology than add in the time to copy and mail my application to a funder! These four tips will help you to maximize the benefits of the online application form while minimizing its challenges.

Stories make your application and case more relatable, interesting, and memorable. Reviewers will read your application longer, pay closer attention to it, and remember it when it comes time to evaluate all of the applications sitting on their desk or inbox for funding.

If you’ve applied to a grant program from the Quad Cities Community Foundation this year, you’ve noticed some new questions on the application. They ask for aggregate demographic data for your board in the areas of race/ethnicity, gender identity, and ability status. Learn why!

Tips on how to fit within the character limit for grant applications.

As we come upon the one-year anniversary of living in this new normal, now is a good opportunity to see how far we have come as a sector and what work remains.

President Trump signed on the evening of December 27 a COVID relief bill provisions to help nonprofits. We summarize those resources in this week’s Nonprofit Tips & Tidbits.