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@@grantchatter We are in the process of developing an innovative platform designed to assist small small businesses and grant writers like yourself. Our upcoming website will focus on collecting crucial information for small businesses and utilizing AI to keep you updated on the latest grant funds. Additionally, it will provide personalized recommendations based on the data gathered. We value your opinion and would love to hear your thoughts on this concept. How do you envision such a platform assisting you in your business or grant writing efforts? What features would be most beneficial to you? Additionally, what features would you find most valuable in a platform that offers personalized grant recommendations? Your feedback will play a crucial role in shaping our product to best meet the needs of small businesses and grant writers. We appreciate your time and insights.

@Oseni03 Thanks for the opportunity to comment! There are a lot of grant management platforms out there that I'm sure you're investigating already, so I have two immediate thoughts outside of (though maybe parallel to) those systems: (1) My concern with AI at the moment is that search results are general, outdated, and when I request links, I get the (outdated) homepage of a funder, not the page with the actual grant info. Getting current, detailed, well-linked data from AI would be good. (2) For small business in particular, make sure that the search responses clearly indicate whether the fund is a grant, loan, or other format. Grants are especially limited in supporting small business, so clarity of the actual scope of the opportunity would be helpful.

@@grantchatter Thanks so much for your opinions. Concerning the first, the grant data will be exactly from the official page. Thank you so much. It really means a lot us.

@lenadams7204 The principles of writing a strong proposal are the same, but the links for more information are different. I found these links. Do they help? www.morecommunityfoundation.org/ and www.firelightfoundation.org/african-indigenous-grantmakers-and-community-foundations

I put links for options in a reply of your earlier comment. Were those helpful?

Thanks for watching that far into the video! The 10% review comment is an indicator of how many proposals are submitted that are incomplete, or are not a match to what the funder is looking to support. Foundations are required by law to give a percent of the interest they make on their investments, and they typically give at least twice that amount.

@@grantchatter So some are poorly written?

Great questions! According to those stats, about 90%. Which is why I can say that writing well and meeting grant funder requirements sets you so much higher on the list of grants that get reviewed, and hopefully funded.

@@grantchatter Thanks. Is grantwritingusa a good inperson class to take?

I have heard of that company, but am not overly familiar with it. I checked their website, and they do appear to offer a lot of classes that are relevant to building up a grant career. And the membership in the Grant Professionals Association (logo at the bottom of the home page) indicates that they are supposed to agree to a code of ethics in the world of grants. So I can't say yes or no. I did a little google searching, and it looks like Udemy has multiple classes, and so does Ed2Go, www.ed2go.com/courses/business/operations/ilc/get-grants . The Ed2Go site gives you the biographies of the instructors. Again, I don't know them well enough to advise one over the other; I just wanted to share options. This makes me think that this would be a good video idea, though!

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