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I want to find a reliable source for information regarding rules that non-profit organizatons must follow when granting funds. Specifically, is it legal for a funding organization require that their grant funds be spent by the grantee only at a specific provider?

government grants all come with contracts as to how the money can be spent and what it can be spent on

part of a government agreement usually includes reporting responsibilities attached to the funding e.g. requiring an audit report

this is from the perspective of the not for profit organisations being given funds by the government. I have never heard of a not for profit organisation which gives grants other than scholarship type arrangements and yes these can be worded so that the funds may only be spent with one supplier.

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I have over 4,000 business/personal grants that need to be written.
i need to start out with a $50,000 lawnscaping equipment grant;but,i am limited on money.
i can only afford $500 a month for the grant writing fees.

Stop now! Grants from what source? Don’t spend another penny until you confirm that grants are available from the grant source. There are a lot of scams that claim to give you sources of grants for business or personal use. They’ll give you an address of a real organization but you’ll find out later that the organization does not have grants available.

I work for an agency that get calls and grant proposals from victims of these scams. We don’t give out grants for things like landscaping equipment but it doesn’t keep the scam artist from sending them to us anyway.

There are very few sources of grants for business or personal use. If you have 4000 proposals that need to be written I suspect a problem.

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I am doing a school assignment about Grant Writing, and non-profit organizations. I am researching reasons why grant proposals do not recieve funding. If this applies to you, could you please answer the following questions (as much as you can).

a) Name
b) Organization represented in the proposal
c) The name of the funding source that denied funding
d) the reason for rejection for funding
e) What happened to the proposal after it was denied funding (for example, resubmitted to a different source, edited, shelved, etc.)
f) Any suggestions you have for new grant writers.

Thank you very much.

i actually work at a nonprofit that consults other nonprofit organizations on how to write grants. im a bit hesitant to provide you all the answer to your 6 questions because i dont know you and dont want to put all that information over Yahoo! answers.

but there are numerous reasons why nonprofit organizations get denied grants. they range from not following directions to a grant being extremely competitive. the one project i am workiong, i have consulted over 20 organizations that are part of a 50 nonprofit applicant pool. and of those 50 applicants, only 5-10 grants will be awarded.

usually grants are written specifically for particular grants. a lot of the language can be used for other grants but my advice is always cater your grants based on the funder and their funding priorities. never, ever use boilerplate language over and over again on different grants.

my suggestion for new grant writers is to find a mentor and just do it. you cannot get an undergraduate degree in grantwriting and the best way to learn is to read books on grants writing, attend workshops and classes, find a mentor to help, get to know as many program officers as you can, and write and write and write.

good luck.

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We are a certified apprenticeship 501(c)(3) program in search of funds to continue and upgrade our training and retraining program.

You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov – these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.

Even if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants — all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently.

For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center http://www.fdncenter.org . It’s a subscription based website ($19.95 per month is the cheapest I think)

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