Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

I was relieved, but nervous, as I wanted to be a good steward of the funds that had been given to me. GPC Exam Scholarships exist to give grant professionals the opportunity to apply for funds to receive a nationally recognized credential to help elevate themselves and the grants profession. You never know what will happen next.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

This present blog piece provides tips on how best to tailor your selection of continuing education activities over the life course. If financial resources are thin, you can integrate low and/or no-cost trainings available through GPA or other GPCI AEP-approved trainers. Or apply for a scholarship or grant for yourself!)

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2024

Securing funding is highly valuable, but being a grant professional often evokes one of the following responses while networking– a blank stare followed by “Oh,” or “I need a grant!”. GPCI regularly conducts job analyses to maintain accreditation, which would benefit from the Bureau of Labor Statistics professional code data.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Have you ever wanted to attend the GrantSummit, but your organization needed more funding to support you? If these are items on your “grant bucket list,” there is funding available to help cover the costs. In 2023, GPCI presented three CMP awards and 11 GPC TM Exam scholarships to recipients.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Throughout my career as a grant professional, I’ve found myself in work-related situations, with organizations, clients or otherwise, in a position of open collaboration when seeking funding for programs/projects that the entity leading would not otherwise be able to secure on their own. Please Limit: Guaranteeing funding.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

The GPC credential signals precisely the expertise and ethical rigor employees need when managing grant funding. This produces higher quality grant applications and ensures funded projects are more effectively managed while reducing risk and fraud.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

The proposal in all of its elements speaks to power (the funder) on behalf of the people or animals the organization serves, and funds are sought to drive positive change on some level, whether individual, community, or system wide. GPCI Competencies : #7, #8, and #9 Sound like anyone you know?

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The focus of most organizations is getting grant funding in the door. New (and don’t forget about the renewal) funding is attractive and necessary. Review the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Many people might say they review the NOFO at the beginning, but are you looking at all that is needed? GPCI Competency: 05.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 5, 2024

Author Bio: Amanda Faye Lipsey, MFA, GPC, is a skilled grants professional, health researcher, and patient advocate with more than 20 years of experience in fund development and communications. She is also an approved trainer by the Grant Professional Certificate Institute (GPCI).

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. Quality Improvement Tips Many government and private grant funding agencies have “grant competitions” that repeat either annually, biennially, or another periodicity schedule. Post-funding decision debriefings.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. News & World Report’s Best Nonprofit Management Programs blog. Keep in mind there are many nonprofit organizations asking for funding.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

A few years back, our agency was applying for a couple of multi-year, several million dollars’ worth of funding from the state department. While it worked out and both projects were funded, it was the beginning of some internal changes in how grant collaborations are conducted. Bonnie shares a great example of external sabotage.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 25, 2024

You might pursue a partnership with a subcontractor or subrecipient related to a specific funding opportunity. Author Bio: Kristin Raack, CFRE, GPC has been a grant and fund development professional for 25 years. GPCI Competency: 2, 3 Cooperation brings numerous benefits to communities, organizations, and people served.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

GPA Learning Pathways: A self-guided curriculum centered around a specific topic, including webinars, podcasts, journal articles, strategy papers, blog post articles, and microlearning videos. GPCI Competencies AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 28, 2024

In 2002, I was managing a grant-funded violence prevention program at a small-ish nonprofit organization in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Instead of admonishing me for my inexperience and poor attitude, she invited me into her space and showed me the grant that funded my program. I have program tasks and schools to visit!”

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 18, 2023

It is no surprise that with all the fast-moving federal funding that has been distributed over the past few years, those who receive federal awards may not be aware of all of the rules pertaining to award management. What internal controls are in place for the organization to ensure it will be a good steward of federal funding?

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 16, 2024

GPCI Competencies AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Competency #8: Knowledge of methods and strategies that cultivate and maintain relationships between fund-seeking and recipient organizations and funders.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

Grant Professional Certified (GPC) Likely the most familiar certification in the grant professional industry, the grant professional certification developed by the Grant Professional Certification Institute (GPCI) is based on rigorous standards and ongoing research to meet real-world demands of grant professionals.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The non-profit world is struggling as it emerges from the pandemic and funding programs and projects become more competitive. GPCI Competency: 6, 7 Currently, the Learn and Grow series is a wonderful resource to enhance my practical experience, particularly in helping non-profit leaders understand what it takes to be grant-ready.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 9, 2024

If you don’t know how to create this type of tool, stay tuned for a future blog post on that topic. We will address how to analyze quantitative and qualitative data in future blog posts in this series. Step 4: Store, Analyze, and Interpret the Data It is important to store data systematically and link them to your questions.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Funds raised will help the Grant Professional Foundation award scholarships to grant professionals attending GrantSummit, joining GPA, and getting their GPC credential. GPA provides a continuing education tracker for GPCI and CFRE-approved courses. In your downtime, peruse the Grant Professional Foundation’s Silent Auction.

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