Grant Writing Success: Create a Boilerplate

Writing a great boilerplate for your organization can do amazing things for your grant writing efforts. Pulling together common information about your organization or program means that you'll have a solid start to your next grant application--whether you get two months or two days to create a finished product. Another plus in creating boilerplate information is that it can be shared with other members of your orgnization. It's always a working document, but should be created so that little needs to be changed when you apply it to a finished product.

Here are some key pieces to include in your boilerplate:

1. Organization Background
2. Mission & Vision
3. Organization's Current Programs and/or Actitivites (What do you do?)
4. Audience (Who do you serve, how many, how well?)
5. Overview of board members, staff, volunteers

If you don't already have boilerplate information, reach out to your marketing or public relations team for help with content. Once you have a nice boilerplate created, you'll wonder what you ever did without one!

~Cheers!