How to Craft a Standout Grant Application ft. Dawn Lego from OneCause

Key Takeaways

Crafting standout grant applications is essential to distinguish your proposal among many submissions and increase your chances of success.
Understanding how funders evaluate proposals, including their priorities and common pitfalls to avoid, is crucial for tailoring applications effectively.
Tailoring your grant application specifically to align with a funder's priorities can significantly improve its likelihood of being funded.
Creating proposals that capture and maintain a grantmaker’s attention is key to standing out in the competitive grant application process.
Avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls that can undermine your application is necessary to secure the grant and achieve funding goals.

Standing out is everything—especially when your grant application is one of hundreds. So, what does it take to rise to the top?

Join Dawn Lego from OneCause for a behind-the-scenes look at how funders evaluate applications, what they prioritize, and the common pitfalls to avoid.

Whether you're aiming to enhance your grant strategy or apply for the OneCause Cares technology-based grant from OneCause (up to $10,000!), this session will provide you with the tools to craft stronger, more successful proposals.

You'll walk away knowing how to:

Craft proposals that catch a grantmaker’s attention
Tailor your application to a funder's priorities
Avoid common pitfalls that could cost you the grant

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About our Speaker

Dawn Lego | Director of Brand Engagement and Channel Marketing @ OneCause

For over 25 years, Dawn Lego has been dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations grow their campaigns and elevate fundraising efforts. Dawn consistently delivers engaging, informative content through CFRE webinars and the Raise Nation Radio podcast. In addition to her marketing and content strategy work, she leads several corporate social responsibility initiatives, including the OneCause Cares Corporate Grants Program.

Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. Our goal is to tackle a problem grant professionals often have to solve, while also sharing different ways Instrumentl’s platform can help grant writers win more grants.

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