Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In addition to the successes, thoughtful consideration of the challenges faced can help you gain insights into areas where you need more training or different systems to ensure smoother grant processes. Prepare to request budget or timeline revisions as needed. Develop or revise your budget for professional development in 2025.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Doing More with Less Budget constraints and economic pressures are forcing organizations to stretch their resources. If your organization lacks expertise in grant-seeking, consider consulting professionals or training staff to bolster your efforts. Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 27, 2025

Author Bio: Julie Assel, GPC, CGMS, is CEO of Assel Grant Services, a national consulting firm specializing in strategic grant research, proposal development, management, and training. GPC Competency: 5 – Knowledge of Post-Award to Inform Pre-Award

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Budgeting and Financial Justifications An accurate and detailed budget serves as a financial blueprint for your proposal. Having a sound budget isn't just about numbers; it’s also about building trust. A well-structured budget reflects your planning and operational capabilities. ® Grant Writing Training

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Equally important is a comprehensive budget that outlines how funds will be allocated. A transparent and realistic budget instills confidence in potential funders, showcasing not only financial responsibility but also a serious commitment to achieving project goals. ® Grant Writing Training About Shavonn V. ® Get.Grants.Better.®

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. AGS is also launching a new training series in May, Capacity Building for Small Organizations. For example, a master GRANTS folder might have multiple folders within it, each labeled by the funder name.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Before I began working as a grant consultant, I did not understand all the details and intricacies of grant budgets, including the difference between restricted and unrestricted funds. This experience taught both me and the nonprofit the benefits and challenges of having restricted funding in their budgets.

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Defining Small Nonprofits: Whether a nonprofit or not-for-profit , a charitable organization’s “size” is not determined by its facility, number of staff, or services to the public but by the size of its operating budget. AGS is also launching a new training series in May, Capacity Building for Small Organizations.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Where one team members strength may be analyzing budgets or data, anothers strength may be relating to clients or community partners. Strengths-Based Team Building Project teams should be representative of people invested in the projects success and who also bring different strengths and points of view to the proverbial table.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

We truly know the organization’s story, from budgets to program outcomes, better than almost anyone.” We are bound to the strategy, outcomes, budgets, and deliverables decided at these meetings. Check out our website to learn more and sign up for our training newsletter. of all the work I do.”

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This process will likely include outlining a detailed budget, timeline, and measurable outcomes. AGS also offers several on-demand webinars on a variety of topics to support the full grant cycle, including grant budgeting, compliance, and grant management. Check out our website to learn more and sign up for our training newsletter.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. Check out our website to learn more and sign up for our training newsletter.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The direct costs (service, equipment, training) are likely direct costs, but the administrative assistant’s increase in time spent facilitating these services isn’t allowable. There are many nuances to indirect costs that an organization should be aware of and consider if they choose to request within grant budgets.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

The best practice is to reduce risk by accepting a salary or fee for grant writing services that are not included in the proposal budget. Check out AGS’ on-demand Grant Ethics Training series for a comprehensive overview and application of ethics including all three sources.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

Review the project budget and how your grant fits into that financial structure. You can also learn more about organizational grant readiness and a variety of other topics with AGS online training sessions available on demand. AGS is launching a new training series in May, Capacity Building for Small Organizations.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, appropriations are “decisions made by Congress about how to allocate a portion of federal spending. The appropriations process generally addresses the discretionary portion of the federal budget.” In general, these two categories are part of the appropriations process.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Schedule a complimentary consultation today: www.thinkandinkgrants.com About Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting. ® provides grant writing training and discounted services to underserved 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations with budgets of less than $3 million.

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In 1997, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised its standards on federal race and ethnicity definitions. While there are many challenges in reporting demographic data, understanding and communicating the differences in race, ethnicity, and nationality is the first step. Census Bureau, report data uniformly and consistently.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, the information provided in the narrative, budget, and attachments didn’t come close to answering the questions posed on the application. Author Bio: Kimberly Hays de Muga, GPC, is the cofounder and cohost of Fundraising HayDay, a podcast about grants and such.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 15, 2024

From research proficiency to persuasive writing, from budgeting to relationship building, each skill plays a vital role. Grant Writing Skill #6: Budgeting Accurately A realistic and detailed budget is a crucial part of your grant proposal. Ensure your budget aligns with your proposal narrative. About Shavonn V.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

And while having an official grant writer on staff is not a prerequisite to receiving grant funds, it is difficult to juggle the rules and regulations, deadlines, and application requirements on top of your typical workday duties when you are fighting fires, shaping young minds, running programs, balancing the budget, or leading your community.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 22, 2024

There are attachment upload buttons for unasked-for resumes, not-yet-created project budgets, and audits that must live somewhere. It is generally accepted that any funding that is time-limited, designated for a specific purpose, and requires a program or project budget for expending the funds is a grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 8, 2023

From grant prospecting, to drafting the narrative, designing programs, crafting budgets, and managing grants post-award, the responsibility was on my shoulders. Marrying Project Management and Grant Management to Manage the Grant Pro Workload. Throughout my career as a grant professional, I’ve often been a one-person show.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Some elements of grant readiness are having 501c3 paperwork, a board of trustees, a bank account, organizational budget, accounting staff, mission/vision statements and staff capacity and experience to handle a project. Travel budgets are tight, but webinars often feature industry experts who offered terrific advice and insights.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Do you need a lot of training, or just the basics? In fact, that fundamental training allows me still today to be independent and not to rely on office assistants, and it helps make grant writing a snap. I have noticed in the many grant applications I have prepared and submitted that budgets play a more important role than ever.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Key application requirements are a narrative that includes your efforts to advance racial equity, a budget, a chart of project milestones and deliverables, and letters of commitment from all partners involved as well as an. AGS is excited to offer a Federal Grants Training Series in 2023! an entire state).

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In terms of budget, projects with a larger scope may be eligible to request larger amounts for up to three or five years of support, depending on the track and project. Julie Assel, GPC, President/CEO , will be happy to talk with you about this opportunity and provide you with a quote for grant services. Start preparing for next year!

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 24, 2024

It’s alarming how much we lie on our org budgets and shortchange ourselves…. Stop thinking a shoe-string budget is some mark of resourcefulness and efficiency. Don’t set a budgeting precedent that leaves your staff overworked and underpaid. Identify factors that limit how budgets are written (e.g.,

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

In one case, I was laid off from a job I had for three years at a not-for-profit organization because of budget cuts (third round of layoffs). If awarded, your scholarship will be in the form of a credit to GPCI for all or a portion of the GPC exam. CMP Renewal Scholarships - for eligible GPCs seeking to renew their credentials.

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