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Cancel a Candid Subscription and Get a Refund? Renewal Checklist and Terms
If you cancel a Candid subscription, is there a refund? The published terms, the notice deadline, and a checklist for deciding whether to renew.
Sample Grant Proposal for Animal Rescue: Full Example and Section Guide
A $25,000 spay/neuter and intake medical request, written from county intake data with veterinary budget lines.
Can You Ask a Funder for a Past Winning Application, or Why You Were Rejected?
Yes: ask a funder why you were rejected and for a past winning application. The short email to send, questions that get real answers, and how to reapply.
Sample Grant Proposal for Community Development: A Full Neighborhood Project Example
A composite corridor revitalization request covering site control, displacement risk and who maintains it in year three.
Are Audited Financials Required for Grants?
When a federal single audit applies, how it differs from audited statements, and what to send a funder if you have none.
Sample Grant Proposal for Housing Nonprofit Programs: A Complete Worked Example
A housing proposal that answers where the units are, who signs the lease, and what happens when the subsidy ends.
Best Grant Research Software and the Grant Research Database for a Small Nonprofit
Score any grant research tool on data source, filters, export, tracking and price, then pick the grant research database a small nonprofit can actually work with.
Conservation Grant Writing: A Sample Grant Proposal for an Environmental Nonprofit
A composite $75,000 request to restore 9,240 linear feet of streambank, with unit-cost lines and permit questions.
Can You Find Grants for a Nonprofit Without an EIN?
Why forms ask for an EIN, how to get one free from the IRS, and what grant research you can do while you wait.
Sample Grant Proposal for Arts Organization: Full Example and Budget
How to cost artist fees and access services, state the artistic rationale, and report audience measures to arts funders.
Federal Grant Match Requirements
What counts as cash and in-kind match, how to value it, and the records that hold up under 2 CFR 200.306.
Sample Grant Proposal for Youth Program: A Complete After-School Example
A 60-slot after-school request worked through staffing ratios, a dosage target, safeguarding and outcome measures.
GrantStation vs Candid Pricing
One upfront payment or a monthly bill with download caps: how GrantStation and Candid pricing compare for a small team.
Sample Grant Proposal for Food Bank Funding: Example, Budget, and Free Template
How a food bank shows donated food arrives cold and edible: a worked request with a refrigerated capacity budget.
How to Find Grants for Nonprofits Without 501(c)(3) Status
Fiscal sponsors, expenditure responsibility grants and the filing path for groups without 501(c)(3) status.
Sample Grant Proposal for Health Clinic Programs: A Complete Example
A clinic proposal built as a service-area argument, with staffing math, a worked budget and recognized outcome measures.
Is Foundation Directory Being Discontinued? What Changed and When
The dated timeline of the move from Foundation Directory Online to Candid search, with what Candid said about it.
Sample Grant Proposal for Scholarship Program: Full Worked Example and Selection Criteria
A scholarship proposal with the scoring rubric, award terms, bursar disbursement and the award-to-administration split.
Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC) and Your Indirect Rate
What counts in the MTDC base and what stays out, with a clean calculation of the indirect rate on a federal award.
Sample Grant Proposal for Education Nonprofit Programs: A Complete K-12 Example
A K-12 proposal worked from school-level data, with objectives a district can verify and a year-two sustainability plan.
Kindora Review for Nonprofits
A neutral look at Kindora's plans, AI credits and 990-based funder data, from its published pages and user reports.
Logic Model for Grants: Linking Activities, Outcomes and Impact With Indicators
Link activities, outcomes and impact in a grant with a logic model built backwards, an indicator for every outcome and a quick check for broken links in the chain.
Grant Proposal Readiness Checklist: What to Have Before You Write
The documents, program facts, budget and letters to have on file before you write a grant proposal, and what each one proves to a funder.
Grant Progress Report Template: What to Put in Every Section
A fill-in progress report: what goes in each narrative and financial section, and the 2 CFR 200 due dates.
What Is a Grant Proposal? Definition, Sections, and What Funders Read
A plain definition of a grant proposal, every section with its usual length, and what a reviewer reads first.
Pass-Through Grant Management: 2 CFR 200.332 Subrecipient Duties
How a pass-through entity decides subrecipient or contractor, what a subaward must carry, and how to monitor it.
Successful Grant Proposal Examples in PDF: A Full Worked Example
Where funded grant narratives are public, plus a full worked composite proposal to read before you write, adapt section by section and save as a PDF.
GrantStation vs Foundation Directory
A dated comparison of GrantStation and Foundation Directory on coverage, price and download caps, plus free ways in.
How Many Years Before a Nonprofit Can Get Grants?
No rule sets a minimum age for grant eligibility. What funders check instead, and how a new nonprofit builds a record.
What Is a Letter of Support? Definition, Examples, and Who Should Write One
How a letter of support differs from a letter of commitment or intent, who to ask, and a full example to adapt.