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​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 35-minute episode with Micah Richardson, you’ll learn:

• How to use data and statistics to improve your chances at winning more grant funding
• How you can obtain consistent funding by renewing grants
• How nonprofit organizations can better build a relationship with their communities and increase their impact

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Additional Resources

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection

Podcast Information

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 35-minute episode with Kristen Bitzegaio, you’ll learn:

• Common red flags in grant applications that every grantseeker needs to avoid
• The #1 piece of advice for grantseekers
• How grantmakers evaluate grant proposals

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Kristen Bitzegaio is passionate about making my community a better place to live and work. She has worked in the nonprofit sector for nearly 20 years in various capacities, including as a marketing director, a community engagement coordinator, a program manager, and an executive director. She loves to learn and grow and thinks one of the best ways to do that is through strong relationships.

Additional Resources

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection

Podcast Information

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 35-minute episode with Pedro Paz, you’ll learn:

• The #1 reason why your grant essay is getting rejected time and time again
• The importance of grant reports and how you can use them to your advantage
• How to write budgets that impress grantmakers

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Pedro Paz is the Director of Policy and External Affairs for the Santa Barbara foundation with over 20 years of non-profit, philanthropic, and government experience, including agency administration, budget oversight, and program development. He has demonstrated leadership in the field of grantmaking, community relations and donor management. He is recognized as an evaluator with comprehensive experience in non-profit program evaluation. He has vast knowledge in identifying, designing, and implementing programs and policies to address identified needs. He also has extensive experience training and presenting to groups on evaluation and program development and implementation.

Additional Resources

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection

Podcast Information

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 35-minute episode with Alexa Benson-Valavanis, you’ll learn:

• How to craft a brilliant grant essay that will impress grantmakers
• The importance of grant reporting
• How to build a nonprofit narrative that will improve your chances of getting repeat grants

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Alexa has served as president and CEO since July 2005. She was recruited to play basketball at Chico State University and graduated with a degree in journalism, then worked in business development in Shanghai, China, before starting an organization supporting nonprofit development in Guatemala. Alexa was hired to rebuild NVCF in 2005, and engineered a new business model mobilizing social entrepreneurs and philanthropists locally and around the globe. Under Alexa's leadership the foundation has grown from serving a dozen clients to more than 500 clients, engaging tens of thousands of donors, generating revenue of more than $152 million, while reinvesting nearly $100 million to causes in Northern California, the United States and throughout the world. On Nov. 8, 2018, Alexa transformed NVCF into the lead philanthropic organization in the Camp Fire relief and recovery effort and has since built a COVID-19 response arm in efforts to help slow the pandemic and provide relief to at-risk populations. To date, NVCF has granted more than $53 million for wildfire recovery and has mobilized more than $3 million for COVID-19 response.

Additional Resources

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection

Podcast Information

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 35-minute episode with Elisa Fiaschetti, you’ll gain:

• The secret "sauce" that the Montana Community Foundation uses to evaluate grant applications
• The #1 reason why your grant application gets rejected
• ​The step-by-step breakdown of what the best grant applicants are doing and what you should do to replicate them

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Elisa Fiaschetti is the grants program officer for the Montana Community Foundation. In the past, she was the rural community development manager for the Montana Governor's Office of Economic Development where she worked to assist rural and tribal communities with various community development projects, helped identify and address roadblocks to success, and supported community efforts to increase community and economic opportunities in rural communities. She also developed and managed the Main Street Montana Rural Partners Initiative, an initiative focusing on empowering small towns in Montana.

Additional Resources

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 35-minute episode with Danielle Tong, you’ll learn:

• The most memorable applications she has read & how you can replicate them step-by-step
• The best grant writing tips that make your organization stand out in the large pool of applicants
• How grassroots and established nonprofit organizations can meaningfully build relationships with grantmakers

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Danielle Tong is the director at the Columbus Foundation, where she provides leadership to capacity building programs and grantmaking. Prior to that, she used Lean Six Sigma as a consultant in my own firm that focused on building capacity and streamlining processes for nonprofits across the state. She also applied it in the fight against infant mortality, in her work with the Ohio Department of Medicaid, as a Lean Six Sigma project manager and coach for managed care plans.

Additional Resources:

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection

Podcast Information

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers?

​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

​By the end of this 40-minute episode with Shari Martin, you’ll learn:

• How community-based foundations can improve their applications by talking about their immediate impact and how they connect with their local communities
• ​What differentiates the effective grant-winning budgets from ineffective budgets
• ​How your grant application can stand out in the hundreds of other grant applications

About Us
Instrumentl brings grant discovery, research, and tracking to one place. With Instrumentl, development staff are more effective and efficient at finding the right grants for their nonprofits.

Instrumentl helps save 3 hours a week on average and increases grant application output by 78% within a year.

Shari Martin from Cobb Community Foundation and Will Yang will teach you the best nonprofit grants and how you can optimize your grants for nonprofit organizations because grant writing correct is very difficult if you are a nonprofit organization. Not only that, you need to know how to find grants, and how to write a grant proposal so that you can stand out among a pool of applicants. Grant proposals are key to nonprofit growth and that is why some people ask how to find grants and that answer is simple. It all comes down to how to write grant essays because grant essays will make or break your applications. Additionally, you need to know how to find the best grants because making sure your organization matches with the grant giver is critical.

Additional Resources

• Get personalized grant recommendations for your nonprofit today.
• Save $50 off your first month of Instrumentl with the code, FOUNDATION50.
• Download the Ultimate Grant Writing Resources Collection