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Jeri BucyMembership Director,
Montana Nonprofit Association
Tammy TilzeyGrantHub Team
Foundant Technologies
Becky Franks
Executive Director,Cancer Support Community Montana
Grant Management Techniques
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• Foundant Overview
• 5 Grant Management
Techniques
• Grant Management:
Cancer Support
Community Montana
• Q&A
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Agenda
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• Headquartered in Bozeman, MT
Remote team members in Minneapolis, Boise, Philadelphia, Seattle and Chicago
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Clients• 1005 Grant Lifecycle Manager (Grantmakers)
• 203 GrantHub clients (Grantseekers)
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Clients in 50 states and 5 provinces
Client Map
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Grantseeker
Client Map
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The Benefits of Grant Management
Retain Institutional KnowledgePeace of Mind
Save Time Never Miss a Deadline
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Grant Management Techniques
Using effective grant
management in your
organization is like putting
oil into your car – it keeps
everything running
smoothly!
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Five Grant Management Techniques
1. Create a grant calendar
2. Organize your funders, track grant history and keep
grant documents organized
3. Coordinate your team’s responsibilities to stay on
schedule
4. Be ‘Grant-Ready’
5. Consistently report on pipeline and progress of grant
funding
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Grant Calendar – What do you use today?
• white board• wall calendar• spreadsheets• shared email calendar• project or tasks management system• colored pens / colored sticky notes• binders• file cabinets• shared files / folders on network• google drive / documents• grant management solution• Consultant• other…
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Grant Calendar
Score your solution against this checklist:
Everyone has visibility to upcoming deadlines.
Owners receive regular reminders when items are due.
You are continually adding new opportunities to your calendar.
Recurring funding opportunities are scheduled in advance.
Communication of grant plan, progress, and results is
facilitated.
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Five Grant Management Techniques
1. Create a grant calendar
2. Organize your funders, track grant history and keep
grant documents organized
3. Coordinate your team’s responsibilities to stay on
schedule
4. Be ‘Grant-Ready’
5. Consistently report on pipeline and progress of grant
funding
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Organize Funders & Grant History
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Elements to Track for Each Funder
• Board Members
• Deadlines
• Decision Process
• EIN
• 990s
• Website
• Funding History
• Others?
• Funder Name
• Areas of Interest
• Min/Max Funding
• Geographical Focus
• Key Contacts
• Address
• Social Media Sites
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Grant Tracking
• Deadlines
• Submitted Date
• Decision Date
• Grant Term
• Restrictions
• Submission Link/Login
• Award details - reports due, etc.
• Funder Name
• Grant Name
• Status (Pending, Awarded,
Denied)
• Amount Requested
• Amount Awarded
• Amount Received
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Organize Grant Documents
Don’t waste time searching for misplaced items, recreating the same plan, and trying to
rebuild funder relationships.
Have we applied to this funder before?
What did the funder request from us?
What was outlined in our award letter?
What should we do differently next time?
Where is a record of the LOI we sent? Where’s the proposal?
Did we navigate the funder relationships successfully? If so, how?
What reports did we turn in?
What were our program outcomes?
Did we back up our files before the laptop crashed?
The average employment period for a development director is 18 months!
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Five Grant Management Techniques
1. Create a grant calendar
2. Organize your funders, track grant history and keep
grant documents organized
3. Coordinate your team’s responsibilities to stay on
schedule
4. Be ‘Grant-Ready’
5. Consistently report on pipeline and progress of grant
funding
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Coordinate your grant team responsibilities while staying
on schedule.
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Send email notifications and reminders.
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• Some grant management solutions can be configured to
send notifications to team members when they are
assigned a task and also send reminders of deadlines
when they are approaching.
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Five Grant Management Techniques
1. Create a grant calendar
2. Organize your funders, track grant history and
keep grant documents organized
3. Coordinate your team’s responsibilities to stay on
schedule
4. Be ‘Grant-Ready’
5. Consistently report on pipeline and progress of
grant funding
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Be “Grant Ready”
• Prepare solid answer templates for a quick first draft.
• Track answers with different character counts.
• Tag answers by program name so you can quickly find the
appropriate one to use.
• Accumulate stories of how your organization has impacted the
population you serve.
• Track statistics that show the need for your service and
programs.
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Create a grant ‘tool kit’ to streamline proposal
creation.
You can complete up to 80% of the effort to create a
grant proposal before you start searching for funding
opportunities.
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Assemble Your “Answer Library”
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Five Grant Management Techniques
1. Create a grant calendar
2. Organize your funders, track grant history and keep
grant documents organized
3. Coordinate your team’s responsibilities to stay on
schedule
4. Be ‘Grant-Ready’
5. Consistently report on pipeline and progress of
grant funding
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Effectively Communicate Status
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Five Grant Management Techniques
1. Create a grant calendar
2. Organize your funders, track grant history and keep
grant documents organized
3. Coordinate your team’s responsibilities to stay on
schedule
4. Be ‘Grant-Ready’
5. Consistently report on pipeline and progress of grant
funding
BONUS: GMAP – Grant Management Assessment
and Planning worksheet
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Use the Grant Management Assessment and Planning worksheet (GMAP)
to develop your organization’s grant capacity.
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• Assess what you are doing well, and identify areas where you
can improve.
• Develop a checklist of responsibilities that could be part of
someone's job requirements.
• Use to investigate and compare potential grant management
solutions (just add elements such as pricing, training, and
support to the list.)
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Grant Management Tips & Techniques
Becky Franks
Executive Director,
Cancer Support Community Montana
Agenda:
• Background
• Challenges
• Grant Management
• Tips / Advice
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Background
• Cancer Support Community Montana is a small 501c3 providing
support, education and hope for people affected by cancer.
• 5 FTE, volunteers and interns
• Becky Franks is the Executive Director and in charge of grants
• Grant team includes Becky, Development Director, Program
person and college interns.
• 29 grants/sponsorships each year
• Foundations, Corporations
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Challenges
1. Finding grants that fit our organization
2. Keeping track of what is due when
3. Keeping all of the information accessible
4. Keeping the supporting information and
documents consistent across the team
5. Keeping track of our sponsorships that
are not on a regular basis
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Addressing the Challenges –Set up Opportunities at the Beginning of the Year
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Addressing the Challenges –Fill Answer Library & Add the Consistent Documents
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Tips and Advice
1. Get Your Team in the
System
2. Set up Notification
Timing
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Tips and Advice -Use Reports to present Funding Status to Board
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Tips and Advice (cont)
4. Use University Students to Research Grants
– They have the time
– University has memberships to foundation databases
5. Set up Your Search for Success – get a high “win” rate:
– Match your demographic and geography
– Match your funding size
– If not a match, toss it right away – don’t push it too hard
– Get to know the human in charge of the grantor – build that relationship
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Questions?
Becky Franks
Executive Director,
Cancer Support Community Montana
Tammy Tilzey
GrantHub Team, Foundant Technologies
www.granthub.com | [email protected]
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