If you're founding or working with a new nonprofit organization, you know that grant funding can help nonprofits tremendously.
How can you start grant writing in a way that guarantees success?
Many nonprofits focus on first finding a volunteer or paid consultant who can write the grant application. However, the author, a project management professional (PMP) who has launched a successful nonprofit, explains in an accessible way that you need to start earlier and think about grant submissions from a project management perspective.
La Juana Chambers outlines five basic principles in her book:
First: Don't think of writing a grant as a one-off task, approach it as if you are managing a project...because you are.
Second: Is your organization even ready for its first grant submission? What do you need to do first?
Third: Have you planned for digital inclusion in your approach?
Fourth: Collaboration and stakeholder engagement-- yes, you'll need all this to submit a winning grant.
Fifth: Is your organization's governance in tip-top shape and why does that matter for grants?
As you begin the bewildering process of writing grants, please read this book to help you understand what's needed first for the best outcomes. It'll help your nonprofit organization start off on the right foot with a clear intent to succeed.
