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Write with structure
Use practical templates and examples to turn your organization's real work into clear, fundable language.
Built for small nonprofits
The Small Nonprofit Grant Writing Toolkit
Practical grant-writing tools created for small organizations without a dedicated development department. Clear, reusable, and built for the reality of doing a lot with limited time.
✓Instant digital download✓Editable documents✓No special software required
A working toolkit, not another lecture
Built to help you actually finish the grant.
This toolkit focuses on the parts that repeatedly slow small nonprofits down: getting started, organizing the facts, explaining the program clearly, building the budget narrative, identifying funders, and reusing strong material instead of recreating everything from scratch.
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Strengthen the substance
Clarify outcomes, logic models, budgets, and the evidence behind your program without drowning in jargon.
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Find and track opportunities
Build a repeatable process for identifying funders, reading fit, tracking prospects, and making smarter application decisions.
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Written by a nonprofit executive director with direct experience securing federal and state grant funding for a small community organization. If you're the only person at your nonprofit writing grants, this toolkit is built for you!
Most grant writing resources are written for large organizations with dedicated development staff. This one isn't. It's built for the small nonprofit reality: one person wearing five hats, a part-time coordinator, or an executive director who also answers the phones, writing proposals in whatever hours are left over.
What's included (6 documents, instant download):
Letter of Inquiry Template — A fill-in-the-blank LOI structure with a full worked example, a checklist, and a section on which funders actually want an LOI (and which don't).
Budget Narrative Template — Line-item budget tables, a plain-English explanation of matching funds, and a fully worked numeric example so you can see exactly how the math should look.
Prove Your Program Works: A Logic Model Template — Five worked examples across different program types (food access, literacy, animal rescue, senior services, job readiness), plus a clear explanation of the output-vs-outcome distinction that trips up most first-time grant writers.
Write Unforgettable Grant Narratives — A field guide built around one core idea: you're the expert on your story, and outside sources are the experts on your statistics. Covers specificity, structure, tone for different funder types, and a full worked narrative example.
Using AI for Effective Grant Proposals — Practical prompt templates for common grant tasks, a concrete fact-checking workflow, and guidance on funder AI-disclosure policies. Not generic AI hype, actual prompts you can paste and use.
Locating Grants for Your Nonprofit — Where to actually find funders (free databases before paid ones), how to read a funder's 990 before you apply, a prospect tracking system, and a full worked example of researching one funder start to finish.
Who this is for: any small nonprofit without a dedicated grants department — arts organizations, food pantries, literacy programs, animal rescues, senior services, youth programs, and beyond.
Format: 6 Word (.docx) documents, fully editable. No software required beyond Word or Google Docs.
Made for the people doing the work
You do not need a development department to write a stronger proposal.
Executive directors and founders
For people who are simultaneously running programs, answering phones, managing staff, and writing the grant after everything else is done.
Small nonprofit teams
For organizations that need systems they can actually maintain, not processes designed for a ten-person development office.
Newer grant writers
For anyone who wants concrete examples, clearer structure, and fewer moments of wondering what the funder actually means.
Organizations ready to reuse good work
For teams that want stronger core materials they can adapt across opportunities instead of starting from zero every time.
Ready when you are
Make the next grant easier to start.
Give yourself a practical system you can return to whenever a new funding opportunity lands on your desk.
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