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​Choosing the right certification: a guide to grant writing credentials for professionals

Grant Professionals Association

When tracked separately, certification data showed [e]that 33% of freelancers have a certification as compared to 9% of grant professionals working as employees (GPA, 2019). This is the boat I am in; I wrote grants for a decade before GPCI first offered certifications in 2008 (GPA of Lower Hudson, n.d.), so I never got around to it.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

Carolyn has been part of the Qgiv extended family since 2019—we proudly partner to help make a difference in our communities. If you do like GPA and you join, you should investigate the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI). You might attend a few meetings as a guest, to see if you like it.