Articles by Cynthia Adams

My sister Linda and I grew up in a family of storytellers. We all told stories around the dinner table at night—from a strange encounter our dad had with a plumbing customer to a weird thing one…

Tomorrow we go off the mountain. It has been just over a year since I or my husband has been anywhere except for the four-mile drive to our mailbox once every three weeks.

Information about trends in philanthropy for 2021 abound on the Internet. So what do you take to heart, and what do you ignore?

In early 2019, I reached out to Lynnette Cook, Executive Director of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), to find out if she would be interested…

As 2020 continues to deliver one challenge after another, I keep trying to mine the hidden jewels amongst all this chaos. I’m a 40-year Alaskan. I tend to think in terminology that resonates with…

I’d like to share with you the ten blog posts published on GrantStation that were the most read in 2019. Seven of these posts were written by GrantStation staff, and three were contributions from…

I have to admit it was fun going back through our blog posts of 2018 looking for those that were the most popular and re-reading them to see why they attracted so much attention

As 2018 comes to a close, I feel fairly confident that there are some trends gaining momentum that should be noted by those of you trying to secure funding in 2019 and into 2020.

Let’s talk about giving circles, a quickly growing source of funds for nonprofits throughout the U.S. Giving circles have tripled in number since 2007. There are now over 1,600 giving groups in…

Sometimes, no matter how many trainings you take, no matter how many articles you read, no matter how many times you polish your proposal, you simply aren’t successful in your grantwriting efforts…

Last month I wrote a blog about debriefing if you receive a rejection letter from a grantmaker. In that blog post I talked about working with Arianne Benedetto, Lead Grant Writer for Portland…

You spent days and weeks preparing a competitive grant request. You built a strong set of partnerships to demonstrate the community commitment to address the root of this problem. Together your…