In this episode of The Grant Writing Experts Podcast, we sit down with Deahna Moore, a freelance financial expert specializing in nonprofit finance and grant writing.

Deahna shares her journey into the grants world and unpacks why financial literacy is essential for nonprofit success. She explores the role of storytelling in budgets, the challenges organizations face in securing capacity-building funding, and why collaboration between finance and program teams can make or break a proposal.

Listeners will gain practical advice on approaching budgets as living documents, common misconceptions about capacity-building grants, and how starting small with grants can help new grant writers build confidence.

Whether you’re a nonprofit leader, grant consultant, or early-career grant writer, this conversation offers insights that will change how you think about budgets and funding.