funder Archives - Funding for Good

Grants Management: Often a Trial-By-Fire Experience

by Funding For Good | Oct 16, 2019 | Grant Writing

Several years ago, I started a job as a grant writer on a development team for a large nonprofit in North Carolina. Grants management was new to me even though I had worked in and around nonprofits for years. While I’d responded to RFP’s and RFI’s (requests for...

Overhead Rates: A Word From Nonprofits

by Guest Author | May 1, 2019 | Development/Fundraising, Grant Writing

by Briana Carrigg Grant applications often include the question, “What are your overhead rates?” Overhead rates are generally defined as a combination of management, general, and fundraising expenses. While discourse is evolving to accept overhead...