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Episode #244: Better Budgets for Your Grants

Learn about the importance of showcasing the total value in budgets to escape the nonprofit starvation cycle and ensure essential indirect costs, or "infrastructure costs", are adequately funded.

My guest for this episode is Maryn Boess. Over her 35+-year nonprofit career, Maryn has been an on-staff grantwriter; a grants consultant (winning $42 million for her clients over 10 years); a grants trainer; a grants reviewer, author, speaker, mentor and coach; and – starting in 2006 - even a grantmaker. This 3-D background brings a unique insider’s perspective to the practical, inspiring trainings on healthy, successful grantsmanship she shares with thousands of

people each year through GrantsMagic U. A true dual-citizen of the

grants world, Maryn may be the only person holding membership in both Grant Professionals Association (for grantseekers) - and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (for grantmakers). In 2020, in recognition of her lifetime of contribution to the field, Maryn became just the second inductee into the international Grant Professionals Class of Distinguished Fellows.

Here's what to expect during the episode:

  • What is total value budgeting for grant applications

  • Different types of contributions to include in budgets

  • How to properly value volunteer time

  • What you need to know about indirect cost ratios

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