Beginning the Grantseeking Process

For many organizations, getting a grant award can seem like the solution to all of their financial problems. For other organizations, government grants are viewed as laden with red tape and too many strings. These organizations do not want to give up their freedom when it comes to spending monies or moving a dollar from one line item to the next without the grantor’s written permission. Executive directors have heard horror stories from their nonprofit colleagues and they’ve simply decided to exist off of private sector grant awards and individual contributions. What are they failing to realize? Every funder — public or private sector — expects and requires high levels of accountability. After all, funders are accountable to someone too!