Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

For those of us in the nonprofit sector and the grant profession, we tend to work in situations where we are trying to help folks experiencing circumstances much worse than our own. Burnout and compassion fatigue are all too familiar in this sector. Stress, fear, anxiety, sadness, frustration, etc. Competency: #7

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Fundraising and AI Nonprofit fundraising in an election year is especially tough. Not surprisingly, the Candid insights article with the most pageviews brings together two hot topics, one cyclical and one perennial: elections and nonprofit fundraising. Is your nonprofit organization grant-ready?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

**The Unstoppable Wheel of Nonprofit Work: Is There Room for Rest?** Nonprofit work can feel like running on a never-ending treadmill, right? Every day is a new challenge, a new grant to write, a new initiative to launch. AI and Ethics: Ensuring Fairness and Intersectionality in Nonprofit Work Now, here’s an important bit.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 5, 2022

When I founded my grant writing consultancy back in 2015, I knew that I wanted to serve the small nonprofits that make a big impact in our communities. They’re tired, often close to burnout. I’m tired of 90% of the funding out there going to the top 2.7% (in annual revenue) of nonprofits. It makes me angry that 1.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 27, 2022

There are some grant writing experts and instructors who believe that the key to getting grant funding is to… …Do more. Taking this frantic approach is a recipe for burnout. In my grant writing consulting work, I take an entirely different approach. …Go faster. …Work harder. Plain and simple.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As we all begin planning for 2023, I want you to pause for a moment and consider how more grant funding could change your day-to-day nonprofit operations. One of the realities of the nonprofit world is that organizations are frequently expected to do more with less, to stretch dollars and fill in the gaps with longer hours.

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