The team at grantadvisor.org is excited to announce GreatFoundations Minnesota – a celebration of foundations doing great work in Minnesota.  At the beginning of 2020, we’ll be releasing a list of GreatFoundations in Minnesota using data from grantadvisor.org. Since 2017, we’ve been tracking the trends and feedback from Minnesota grantseekers, and have identified some of [...]

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By: Kari Aanestad, co-director of GrantAdvisor.org With input from: Andrea Sanow, Development and Content Coordinator at GrantAdvisor.org; Michelle Chang, Policy and Equity Coordinator at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Over the past ten years I have told stories of various organizations to foundations using the same grant application template that has been in use for [...]

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GrantAdvisor’s goal is to help grantseekers get the information they need to be successful and increase public awareness of their role in the nonprofit sector. That means articulating how the current systems around grantseeking and grantmaking work. But just because the current systems are designed a certain way, that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. GrantAdvisor also [...]

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