Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If you are a grant writer aiming to advance your grant writing career or a nonprofit leader striving to sustain your organization, this guide is for you. Here are five actionable strategies to enhance your grant writing expertise today: 1. Its where I significantly advanced my own grant writing career.

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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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 10, 2024

– Beth Archer, GPC, RSM Incorporating movement throughout the day like yoga/stretching, walking on my treadmill desk, and physically playing with my kids for a few minutes when they get home from school. – Diane Leonard, GPC, RST Before work, I start the day with a short walk. – Megan Martin.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Over dinner I hear complaints of boring writing, long chapters, and words that make no sense to her. Starting around age 10 you would always find me with a Nancy Drew, Babysitter’s Club, or Sweet Valley High book in progress. Because these days reading comes in many forms: books, e-readers, and audio. Either way, get to reading!

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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

I’ve written grants, primarily federal grants, for more than 30 years, but my love is creative writing. Some might see creative writing as antithetical to federal grant writing. After all, we’re not writing fiction, and we can’t make things up. So, I’ll back up and explain.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 9, 2025

Walk Away In her book, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto , Tricia Hersey reminds us that "rest is not a luxury, privilege, or a bonus we must wait for until we are burned out." GPC Competency 8: Practices and Services that Raise the Level of Professionalism in Grant Professionals

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