by Janine Vanderburg Last weekend, a local nonprofit executive emailed me. In charge of his organization’s fundraising program and getting to the place where he could no longer write all the grant proposals, he was thinking of hiring an internal grantwriter. His big question was this: How many grant proposals can one writer be [...]
By Janine Vanderburg, JVA Consulting I have often said that someone with one year of grantwriting experience at JVA Consulting will know more and write more successful proposals than most people with 10 years of experience. Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success suggests a reason why our grantwriters are outliers. Natural talent + 10,000 hours [...]
By Lisa Cirincione, Joining Vision and Action Organizing the application If you are going to invest hundreds of hours seeking grant funding, you need to make sure that your application gets noticed favorably by its reviewers. In my 14 years of writing government grants, I am still surprised at how disjointed and repetitive the questions [...]
by Lisa Cirincione, JVA Consulting To fund community and social change, many of us write grant proposals for our organizations. I personally have written hundreds of grant proposals for JVA Consulting’s nonprofit, government and foundation clients. Over the years, I’ve learned that there are three critical questions that need to be asked and answered for each [...]
By Amber Alarid, JVA Consulting As some of you may already know, Grants Manager Camron Bridgford and I recently co-hosted a training with the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships (DOSP), offering guidance on finding foundation, city, state, and federal funding and securing the right partnerships to create competitive proposals. We were fortunate to be joined [...]
By Lisa Cirincione, Senior Resource Development Associate for Joining Vision and Action As a veteran grantwriter at JVA, I have had the opportunity to work on hundreds of grants for clients who are actively doing their part to make the world better. It is inspiring to get to work with people who are passionate about [...]
As a nonprofit grantwriter or development professional, you're busy. You know that social media is popular, but how exactly, is it going to help you get your job done? Here are 3 ways we use Twitter at [Joining Vision and Action] to help with grantwriting. 1. Researching and understanding trends, current events affecting your work. [...]
It’s JVA grantmaking time for the Colorado Compassion Initiative. Our teams of volunteer peer reviewers, as well as our staff, have been thoroughly reviewing grant applications from nonprofit organizations from across the state. We know how busy you are, and finding time to write solid proposals can be challenging. But if you are going to [...]
On October 6, sessions will begin for JVA’s fifth Executive Director Academy (EDA). Started in 2007, EDA has helped nonprofit leaders from across the region and the country develop the abilities needed to succeed as an executive director. The seven-week intensive course focuses on areas that are integral to the role of executive director—management, leadership, [...]
