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What, When, How– and Why
Every month, a new section of Bo Morton’s and my online class is released. Anywhere from 40 to 120 students log on to learn how to Get Grants. We’ve been teaching this class for about a decade, so...
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A Totally Self-Serving Blog
For the past 8 or so years, my friend and colleague, Bo Morton, and I have been teaching an on-line grantwriting course, Get Grants. During that time we have taught thousands of students, and while we...
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One-Seventh of the Pie
Grants from private foundations comprise a bit less than 14% of all charitable gifts. Yet they loom large for many nonprofits. Indeed, when I left the cloistered world of university fund raising, I...
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The Need of Grant Writing
Just because your organization exists and does good, important—sometimes critical—work should be enough to convince a funder that your program deserves support. Right? Wrong. Beyond the obvious of...
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Support Comes From Those You Know
Fundraising. To many people it is the simple act of asking someone else for money. Well, maybe not so simple to do, but simple in concept. And yet, just asking, while important, can—if not done...
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On Being a Development Director
Working with many different nonprofit organizations as I do, I get to see a wide range of development director jobs. Mostly, when I read the job description or talk to the person in the job, I can...
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Integrating Your Fundraising Efforts
Many of my clients have one-person development offices. If they are lucky, that means that there is a development director and maybe a (often part time) assistant. If they are not, that means that the...
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Much Changes–and Much Remains
We (my co-teacher Bo Morton and I) in the process of rewriting my over a decade-old online grants class, and it’s interesting to think about what has changed—and what has not. Back then, everything was...
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