Solutions

By goal, and by who is asking

These are method pages, not lists. Each one answers how someone in a named position searches, judges a clause and schedules a deadline — the catalogue pages answer which records match, and they are one click away from every page here.

Published

Find a first grant

How a nonprofit finds its first grantMost of the work of a first grant is ruling things out. This is the order to do it in, and the fields that let you do it quickly.How a small business finds its first grantMost public funding is not open to a for-profit business, and the fastest possible search is one that establishes that first.

Plan a deadline calendar

How a grant writer plans a deadline calendarA calendar is only as honest as the dates in it. Three of the four deadline states we publish cannot be scheduled the same way, and one of them cannot be scheduled at all.How local government plans a grant calendarA public body plans against a fiscal year that no funder is aware of. The work is mapping one calendar onto the other without inventing dates in either.

Judge a match requirement

How a nonprofit judges a match requirementA match requirement is the field most often misread, because the absence of one looks identical to a “no” unless the database is careful about the difference.How a small business judges a match requirementFor a business, a match requirement is a financing question first. The award’s headline figure is not what it costs you to accept it.

Handle reimbursement cashflow

How a nonprofit handles reimbursement cashflowA reimbursement award pays you after you have spent the money. For an organisation without reserves that is not a detail of the award; it is the award.How local government handles reimbursement cashflowFor a public body, reimbursement is not a cashflow inconvenience. It is an appropriation that has to exist before the money arrives, approved by people who will read what you wrote.

What is not here, and why

Four goals across five audiences is twenty combinations. Eight are published. A combination appears only where changing the audience changes the body — not the examples, the body — because two pages saying the same thing under different nouns compete with each other and help nobody.

Published solutions pages by goal and audience
Goal	Nonprofit	Small business	Grant writer	Local government	Researcher
Find a first grant	Published	Published	Not written	Not written	Not written
Plan a deadline calendar	Not written	Not written	Published	Published	Not written
Judge a match requirement	Published	Published	Not written	Not written	Not written
Handle reimbursement cashflow	Published	Not written	Not written	Published	Not written

The researcher column is empty for a reason worth stating rather than hiding: we hold no meaningful NIH or NSF coverage, so a researcher’s page would restate the nonprofit one with a different noun at the top. It appears when the coverage does, and not before.