Comprehensive Toolkits & Guides

  • How to Use Grants.gov: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Federal funding can open big doors for your organization, but figuring out Grants.gov can feel like a hurdle all its own.

    This free step-by-step guide from Thrive Community Partners takes the guesswork out of the process. Whether you're exploring federal grants for the first time or just need a refresher, you'll learn how to get your organization registered, search for the right opportunities, understand grant requirements, prepare and submit your application, and track it after submission.

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  • Community Action Planning Roadmap

    The Community Action Planning Roadmap from Thrive Community Partners is a practical, hands-on tool designed to help community leaders move from we should do something about this to a clear plan for actually doing it.

    Using Thrive's Purpose-Driven Revitalization Framework, you'll identify the areas where your community has the greatest opportunity for meaningful growth, narrow those ideas into priorities, and work through the people, partnerships, resources and investments needed to move them forward.

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  • Community Voice Capture Kit

    Community engagement shouldn't end with a stack of survey responses or notes from a listening session.

    The Kit helps you turn what you're hearing from residents, businesses and stakeholders into meaningful insight you can actually use.

    This toolkit walks you through the entire process, from identifying who you need to hear from and choosing the right engagement methods to asking better questions, organizing responses, identifying meaningful patterns and translating community input into strong, evidence-backed language for plans, proposals and funding requests.

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  • Grant Writing Checklist

    There are a lot of moving pieces in a grant application, and overlooking even one can cost you valuable time or potentially funding.

    The Grant Writing Checklist from Thrive Community Partners gives you a step-by-step process to keep your next application on track. Whether you're writing your first grant or refining a process you've used for years, this practical guide walks you through what to do before, during and after you write your proposal.

    From finding the right funding opportunity and researching the funder to gathering your data, developing your project narrative, building your budget and defining measurable outcomes, the checklist helps you make sure the pieces of your proposal work together.

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