How to Optimize Your Grant Application and Win More Funding: Cobb Community Foundation (Ep. 1)

Podcast Information

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 40-minute episode with Shari Martin, you’ll learn: 

• How community-based foundations can improve their applications by talking about their immediate impact and how they connect with their local communities
• ​What differentiates the effective grant-winning budgets from ineffective budgets
• ​How your grant application can stand out in the hundreds of other grant applications

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Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

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Shari Martin from Cobb Community Foundation and Will Yang will teach you the best nonprofit grants and how you can optimize your grants for nonprofit organizations because grant writing correct is very difficult if you are a nonprofit organization. Not only that, you need to know how to find grants, and how to write a grant proposal so that you can stand out among a pool of applicants. Grant proposals are key to nonprofit growth and that is why some people ask how to find grants and that answer is simple. It all comes down to how to write grant essays because grant essays will make or break your applications. Additionally, you need to know how to find the best grants because making sure your organization matches with the grant giver is critical.

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Chapters

• 1:24 Introduction
• 7:14 How have you re-evaluated your grant-making strategy over the years?
• 10:16 What are some mistakes grant seekers often make
• 15:30 What differentiates a good budget from a bad budget?
• 18:40 How do you handle character limits?
• 21:39 How has your proposal evaluation process changed over the years?
• 27:45 Does your foundation view renewal grants differently?
• 30:10 What trends are emerging in the relationship between grant-seekers and grant-makers?
• 37:24 Key takeaways