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Day 31 – Sat Oct 31 – Happy Halloween 🎃

Happy Halloween! 🎃 And that’s a wrap on 31 Days of Funding Frights & Fixes. We survived ghosting funders, zombie proposals, monster math, phantom deadlines and one very fierce werewolf reviewer. Thank you for reading, saving, sharing and telling me your own grant frights. Some of your storie

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Day 30 – Fri Oct 30 – Black Cat Myths 🐾 (BLOG)

“Funders never pay salaries.” “You can’t get a grant your first year.” “Overhead is a dirty word.” These myths get passed around like black cat superstitions, and they keep good organizations stuck. The truth? It depends on the funder. Plenty of grants cover salaries, operating costs and new

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Day 29 – Thu Oct 29 – The Crypt of Capacity ⚰️

Your program is great. Your back office is held together with sticky notes. Strong programs stall when there’s no one to do the books, no system for tracking data, and one exhausted person doing everything. That’s a capacity problem, and some funders fund exactly that. Look for capacity-build

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Day 28 – Wed Oct 28 – The Werewolf Reviewer 🐺

Most reviewers are kind people. Then you ignore the scoring criteria, and the fur comes out. Reviewers score against a rubric. If they can’t find where you answered criterion 3, they can’t give you the points, no matter how good your program is. The fix: mirror the rubric in your headings. Us

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Day 27 – Tue Oct 27 – The Séance 🔮

You don’t need a Ouija board to figure out what a funder wants. You need a phone call. Program officers exist to answer questions. Reach out early, well before the deadline, with a short email: who you are, the project in two sentences, and one or two real questions. Is this a fit? Is there a pr

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Day 26 – Mon Oct 26 – The Last-Minute Scream 😱

11:58 p.m. The portal freezes. Your file won’t upload. Cue the scream. Portals slow down on deadline day because everyone else is submitting too. Federal submissions through Grants.gov also go through validation checks that can kick an application back with errors, and you need time to fix and r

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Day 25 – Sun Oct 25 – The Invisible Board 🫥

Funders notice when your board is a ghost. Many applications ask about board giving, and some funders want every board member to give something. A board that never shows up for fundraising makes them wonder who else believes in this work. Give each board member one clear ask. Not “help with f

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Day 24 – Sat Oct 24 – The Ghost of Grants Past 🕰️

If the only time a funder hears from you is right before a deadline, don’t be surprised when they don’t remember your name. Stay in touch all year. Send a short update when you hit a milestone. Invite them to an event or a site visit. Share a thank-you photo from the program they funded. Three o

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Day 23 – Fri Oct 23 – The Sustainability Hex 🕯️

“We will seek additional grant funding.” That’s not a sustainability plan. That’s a wish. Funders want to know what happens when their money ends. Name real sources: a line in your operating budget, a fee-for-service model, a partner taking over a piece, a donor campaign, a public contract. E

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Day 22 – Thu Oct 22 – The Haunted Timeline ⏳

Every grant timeline is haunted by the same ghost: optimism. “We’ll hire in month one.” Then the job posting sits for six weeks. “The board approves in January.” Then the meeting gets moved. “Our partner starts right away.” They start in March. Build buffers into every timeline. Give hiring a

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Day 21 – Wed Oct 21 – The Vampire Evaluator 🧛

An evaluation plan written the night before the deadline drains the life out of your score. Reviewers can tell when evaluation was an afterthought. The outcomes don’t match the activities, there’s no baseline, and nobody’s named to collect the data. Build evaluation in from the start. Decide

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Day 20 – Tue Oct 20 – Trick or Treat 🍬

estricted money is not a grab bag. If a grant is for after-school tutoring, it can’t cover the roof repair, even for a week, even if you plan to pay it back. Spending restricted funds on the wrong thing can mean paying the money back and losing the funder’s trust. Track restricted money separ

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Day 19 – Mon Oct 19 – The Mummy’s Wrap-Up 🧻

Closing out a grant shouldn’t feel like unwrapping a mummy. But when receipts are in one inbox, timesheets are in another, and the final report data lives in someone’s head, closeout gets ugly. And that person might not even work there anymore. Start your closeout file on day one. One folder

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Day 18 – Sun Oct 18 – The Compliance Creep 🕷️

You got the award. Party! 🎉 And then the compliance creep starts. Quarterly reports. Drawdown requests. Budget modification windows. Data due to a partner. They don’t show up all at once. They pile up quietly until one gets missed. On award day, before anything else, read the award agreement

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Day 17 – Sat Oct 17 – Doppelgänger Proposal 🎭

Imagine a reviewer reading 40 proposals that all say “we serve at-risk youth through evidence-based programming.” Now imagine yours is number 41. If you sound like everyone else, you blend in. So ask yourself: what can we do that nobody else in this county can? Maybe it’s a relationship, a lo

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Day 16 – Fri Oct 16 – Logic Model Labyrinth 🕸️ (BLO

If reviewers can’t trace a straight line from what you do to what changes, they get lost. 🕸️ A logic model is simply a map: what goes in, what you do, what you produce, and what changes. Full article: http://realgrantworthy.com/blog/grants Logic models: love them or dread them? 👇 #Logi

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Day 15 – Thu Oct 15 – Skeletons in the Closet 🦴

That old audit finding you’re hoping nobody notices? They’ll notice. 🦴 Own it. Explain what happened, what you changed, and how you know the fix is working. Funders don’t expect perfect. They expect honest and fixed. Save this one. 🔖 #GrantCompliance #GrantWriting #SpooktacularGr

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Day 14 – Wed Oct 14 – The Data Demon 😈 (BLOG)

“Poverty is a big problem in our community.” According to who? Since when? Old or vague data makes reviewers doubt the need, even when the need is real. The fix: use local, current numbers and cite where they came from. County beats state. State beats national. Last year beats a decade ago. T

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Day 13 – Tue Oct 13 – Friday the 13th 🪞

Yes, it’s Tuesday. Stay with me. 😄 When a grant gets denied, it’s tempting to blame luck, politics, or a grumpy reviewer. But “bad luck” teaches you nothing. Ask the funder for reviewer comments or a quick debrief call. Federal agencies often share reviewer scores and comments, and many foundati

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Day 12 – Mon Oct 12 – Collaboration Cauldron ⚗️

“Absolutely, count us in!” they said on the call. Then report time comes and nobody’s answering emails. A verbal yes isn’t a partnership. Get a signed MOU (memorandum of understanding) before you submit. Spell out who does what, how much money moves and when, what data each partner owes you,

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