The traditional grant writer’s toolkit used to consist of a core set of tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and Adobe Pro. Things have changed, and nonprofits and grant writers have many options for writing, sharing, designing, and collaborating beyond Microsoft and Adobe. We’ve profiled several options below, all produced by companies based outside the United States.

If you work on certain kinds of grant proposals, particularly proposals for research grants, you must cite sources that support your proposed solution and provide evidence of related work and data.

One of the reasons why USG funding opportunities are so daunting is that you usually need to consult multiple documents located across the funding agency’s website (and sometimes, several websites) to understand how to prepare and submit your application. After trying various options to stay on top of federal guidelines, we’ve found the app LiquidText to be ideally suited for this task.

A content library is a storage site where you save different types of content, including templates, excerpts from documents such as proposals and reports, and even audio and video clips. In this post, we review several tools and suggested approaches for establishing and organizing your library so you can easily find and reuse previously created content.