Grant Writing for Nonprofits: A Stream of Thoughts from the Trenches The Cycle of Explaining, Hoping, and Surviving Running a nonprofit, such as Lovingkindness Transitional Services Inc. here in Racine, WI, comes with the idealism of service—and the gritty reality of survival. At the heart of this survival is grant writing: a continuous quest to articulate our worth, prove our impact, and, perhaps most exhaustingly, to explain what we do over and over again. Today, I’ll take you through the h...