Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

As the grant professional, you are their leader and educatorhelping your colleagues understand why their involvement matters. By building relationships and fostering a shared grant-writing vision, you not only make your job easier but also position your organization for long-term grant success.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

Because credentials must be anchored to rigorous and relevant standards, as well as require ongoing education and recertification, they can quickly and accurately help employers identify and hire qualified grant professionals. The GPC credential signals precisely the expertise and ethical rigor employees need when managing grant funding.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

Previously a health sciences librarian for over a decade, Amanda brings her expertise in research and information management to the nonprofit sector, where she thrives in grant writing and leadership.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

She is the Director of Development for Bresee, and has comprehensive experience in events, fundraising, corporate and donor relationships, grant writing and management, volunteers, community engagement, programs, and communications. GPC Competency: #2 She currently serves on the GPA Board for the LA Chapter.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

One of the ways grant consultants can continue their professional development and shore up internal business practices is to engage a business coach. Based on my personal coaching experience, this blog post highlights a few benefits of business coaching for grant professionals. There's always a way to be more efficient.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

I admired and looked up to fellow chapter members who were grant writing veterans, many of whom had their GPC. Little did I know those conversations, and applying for a GPC scholarship, would change the trajectory of my career and my life forever. As fundraising and grant professionals, we ask for money every day.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 17, 2025

Author Bio: Victoria Flynn is the owner and principal of Victoria Flynn Consulting, which provides fractional services supporting grant writing, operations, strategy, and project development. www.vflynnconsulting.com GPC Competency: #2

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Their findings were published in the Fall 2020 Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, showing a gap in available information as well as initial research indicating more than three in four grant professionals experience physical symptoms, socio-emotional symptoms, or both, of burnout. And that “the flow of work never stops.”

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

After considering the various external influences, there are strategies that may help improve your proposal without overhauling grant-seeking strategies. Here are three recommendations, personal and professional, that can support your grant writing.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 10, 2024

Stewardship is arguably the most important but underrated strategy in grant writing. We can define stewardship as the ongoing commitment to remain connected with funders, keeping them apprised of organizational progress long before grants are submitted.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Though AI has many marvelous capabilities, it cannot replace the nuanced thinking and creativity essential for grant writing — for reasons of accuracy, privacy, distinctiveness from other applications, and overall tone and style, among others. GPC Competencies: #3 and #4

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Language Proficiency: Organizations led by non-English speakers often struggle with English proficiency when completing grant applications independently. While this is a generalization, it is also true that many nonprofit organizations led by non-English speakers face a steep learning curve in grant writing.

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Qgiv

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. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer? Q: What are the best grant writing courses?

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Foundations unique role as a 501(c)(3) organization is to help individuals receive valuable education through conference participation, grow through networking with peers, and demonstrate expertise by achieving the GPC credential. Key Details Applications will open starting January 2025; our committee will review them later.

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Fundraising HayDay

JULY 25, 2024

In 2023, today’s guest ( Laura Chynoweth ) penned the blog post “Disrupting the Development Hierarchy” in which she spells out why grant writing so often is found at the bottom. It’s time that is understood.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

Below is an overview of professional credentials related to the grants profession and the requirements for obtaining them. Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS) There are just over 300 CGMS professionals at the end of 2023; only five have also received their GPC, including two AGS staff. There are 1.4

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Some opportunities or renewals may allow grant writing compensation; however, these need to be in writing and not in violation of 2 CFR 200. It’s also unethical for grant professionals to publicly discuss their grant writing rates to avoid setting an industry standard.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

In the ever-changing profession of grant writing, staying on top of new trends and practices is critical for continued success. This present blog piece provides tips on how best to tailor your selection of continuing education activities over the life course. grant-focused lens).

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Stay tuned as we continue this blog series tailored for small organizations with tips for managing grant prospect research, organizing for success, self-advocacy, and more. Sessions are tailored to help participants build their knowledge and skills to create pathways to success for grant-seeking. Registration is live!

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 10, 2024

By serving on a chapter board or committee, you can develop soft skills like public speaking, project management and event coordination, all while earning points toward credentials like the GPC. In return, you may enjoy discounts on chapter events as you rack up those all-important points toward your GPC credential or renewal.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

If your organization does not already approve membership to the Grant Professionals Association , you could consider adding this professional development benefit, which connects your grant writer to others in their field. That would be a fine gift for any grant pro to receive! “I This is by no means a scientific survey.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

Scrolling through the GPA’s website I learned about the Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) offered by the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI). I realized the GPC was an exam that seemed beyond a mere certificate stating I knew about grant writing. Get your GPC. Join the GPA.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

Keith supports nonprofits and small and large businesses with professional grant writing and digital content writing needs and challenges, including county, state, federal, and foundation grants as well as web pages and online articles and blog posts. Author Bio: Keith Nickolaus, Ph.D.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

With each round of feedback, you're honing your grant writing skills, learning what works and what doesn't. Grant writing is not a solo sport. If you have served as a grant reviewer, how has it changed the way you develop proposals? Mastering the art of feedback can help make that happen.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 20, 2024

He’s self-taught and had early success in grant writing while working in communications and project consulting. As a GPA Member and Canadian Chapter Board Member, he continues to learn, grow and network as a self-employed grants professional seeking his GPC. GPC Competencies: #1, 8, 9

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Grants4Good

MAY 3, 2024

If you need a primer on AI, check out my blog on AI and ChatGPT: What is it and how do I use it? Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S. is Owner and CEO of Grants4Good LLC ®, a grant writing training and consulting company based in New York.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A year later we received the first million dollar grant award in the district’s history and I realized that my degrees in English and Education had accidentally perfectly prepared me for this job. A little over 20 years later I was asked to teach an undergraduate grant writing class at my alma mater. GPC Competencies: 1, 4, 9

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here are three practical ways to leverage AI for fundraising and grant writing in 2024: #1 Written communications Are you spending too much time writing letters of inquiry to funders, thank you notes, or email communications with your staff, board or volunteers? Author Bio: Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

March Madness is in full swing, and all this talk about competition and brackets makes me think about how grant writing relates. Grants, much like professional sports, are competitive, and increasingly so. To be competitive, your grant team must train and prepare to advance through the rounds and win awards.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

PLEASE SHARE : Have you identified a key sabotage vulnerability in your grants process? Author Bio: Bonnie Houk, GPC, Director of Grants Management, Southeast Kansas Education Service Center. Her grant writing experience focuses ongovernment, courts, and non-profit funding in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Questions : Are you a grant consultant who specializes or is thinking about specializing? Author Bio: Jessica Chevis, GPC, is the Owner/Principal of Marigold Grant Writing & Consulting, LLC, and a member of the GPA Ethics Committee.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 7, 2024

But by cutting out the information that is VITAL to grant seekers, the IRS is only hurting charitable organizations and the communities they serve. Author Bio: Amanda Day, GPC, is the cofounder and cohost of Fundraising HayDay, a podcast about grants and such. GPC Competency: 1. Have you noticed this new Form 990?

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

In a 2016 blog article , Barbara Floersch, Chief of Training & Curriculum for The Grantsmanship Center , referred to the grant professional as a “rain-maker, a change-maker, and a social activist”. How do you see yourself as an advocate in your work as a grant professional? Sound like anyone you know?

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 29, 2024

Author Bio: Jasmine Markanday, CGMS, GPC, MBA, RPO, is an experienced grant professional with expertise in federal grant writing, management, and indirect cost rate negotiations. What is your organization’s indirect cost and how is it determined? Let us know what questions you may have about indirect costs.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Remember grant writing, implementation and management are best when done by teams. Diverse perspectives and input are in invaluable part of building a successful grants management infrastructure. Her experiences include nonprofit management, fundraising, grant writing and management and marketing/communication.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding Rejection in Grant Writing If you take what we know (only 19% of overall charitable giving comes from foundations; only 1 in 10 applications are approved on average), it is understandable that grant professionals often experience rejection. GPC Competencies: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 22, 2023

“Where do you think we should put this session on grant writing?” Seems like a beginner session to me,” Sven, my fellow board member with no grant writing experience, chimed in. You and I both know grant writing is not simply drafting persuasive proposals. Don't say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it.

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