Beyond the Application.
Explore our growing collection of resources, below, designed to add fresh perspective to your insights on funder ROI and measurable program impact.
What makes a program truly “fundable”?
Funders want to know their investment will produce results. A compelling narrative helps, but what convinces them is a program with a clear plan for delivery and a credible way to measure outcomes.
This article shows how to turn a well-intentioned request into a case funders can approve with confidence: a program that's clearly needed, carefully planned, and ready to measure.
Rethinking the 3-phase grant lifecycle.
The familiar 3-phase grant lifecycle was built to track federal compliance, not to guide how a program runs. When this 3-phase model is used as a team's working plan, it leaves the hardest questions about delivery and measurement until after the award, when staff are already busy delivering services.
This article shows how a 5-phase model adds groundwork before the application and a review after closeout, so your organization goes into every new proposal better prepared.
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