Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Try a consultant with no guardrails. Little did I know that a consultant was overseeing the celebratory event and saw it as “her baby.” It turns out that the consultant not only never followed up with me about greenlighting the document — it never went out. Months later, the consultant again went catatonic for about six weeks.

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 16, 2023

(Originally posted June 2020 and updated October 2023) I've never "met" a nonprofit organization that had an excess of money to spend on hiring staff or paying a consultant. But let's face it, not every organization has the budget for a full-time expert or a pricey consultant.

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Grant Consulting Services

JUNE 27, 2024

GPCI accomplishes its mission through the identification of grant professionals who display outstanding expertise and ethical practices as measured by a psychometrically valid and reliable assessment tool. Master the Art of Grant Writing: Learn the ins and outs of crafting captivating proposals that secure the grants you need.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This article dives into how mastering ethics, collaboration, grant research, strategic planning, building relationships, and prospecting for foundations can be a game-changer in your professional life. Strategic Planning for Success Learn how to develop compelling grant proposals with a strategic approach. Philbrick & Company.

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Just Write Grants

AUGUST 27, 2024

From drafting proposals to analyzing grant opportunities, AI promises to streamline the grant application process. By analyzing historical grant data and trends, AI can help nonprofits target the most suitable grants and tailor proposals to meet specific funder requirements. The Negatives of Using AI for Nonprofit Grant Writing 1.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

AI: The Ultimate Sidekick for Nonprofit Work AI can be your sidekick, taking over the tedious bits of grant writing, like research, program design, drafting, and revising proposals. AI and Ethics: Ensuring Fairness and Intersectionality in Nonprofit Work Now, here’s an important bit.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2024

The Imperative: Listen and Learn As grant professionals, we’re inundated by articles, webinars, and marketing messages about AI’s role in prospect research and analysis, proposal and report writing, and more. Ask yourself, “Is it accurate, current, inclusive, unbiased, ethical? My best advice is: Just jump in!

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Whether you're a nonprofit founder, manager, or consultant, this guide is for you. It also means recognizing the importance of ethics and cultural competency, especially when working with diverse communities. A proficient grant writer knows how to use this data to align their proposal with the funder's goals.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

In my work with nonprofit organizations, I’ve found that while few are using AI, many are not -- citing lack of time and concerns about safety, privacy and ethics. Try this prompt in ChatGPT: “Help me develop a clear and concise project description for my grant proposal on [insert your project] in 200 words or less.”

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Grants4Good

MAY 3, 2024

As a nonprofit leader, you might not be using AI; most nonprofits aren’t — citing lack of time and concerns about safety, privacy and ethics. 3 Write sections of grant proposals While AI cannot even come close to replacing your depth of knowledge and experience, it can help you write sections of grant proposals.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 15, 2024

This includes understanding legal requirements, ethical standards, and best practices in grant management. Building a Strong Team & Proposal Development Process: Building a robust grant writing team and implementing an efficient proposal development procedure are essential steps for organizations aiming to attain grant readiness.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Put the two together, and you have a recipe for a successful proposal. We know how important data is for evaluation and outcomes in a proposal, but how do you take raw data and put it into a compelling, easy-to-read narrative for funders? The proposal could end up more distracting and confusing than just a narrative.

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Grant Consulting Services

JULY 31, 2023

As we continue to see growth in the nonprofit realm, automation and artificial intelligence will increase in popularity as we determine how and when to ethically use it to help organizations increase their productivity while focusing on serving their communities and mission. Ethical or Unethical? Resources Artificial Intelligence.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

Certifications help uplift the profession by establishing a level of knowledge and ethical practices and acknowledging experience and expertise within an industry. As a result, there are many professional certifications that benefit the grants profession. There are 1.4

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

We can’t come in on gameday and put together a proposal without any preparation and expect to win big. In addition, the team should understand the legal and ethical requirements for managing grants, which can vary based on the source and scope of funding. Grants, much like professional sports, are competitive, and increasingly so.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a grant professional, I have an enduring faith in the myriad of talents needed to craft comprehensive and convincing proposals -- talents that can’t be automated by artificial intelligence (AI) -- but I also understand the existential fear of our profession being devalued or compromised through technology.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What advantages and disadvantages do you feel you have as a worker because of your time in academia (in terms of skill set, work ethic, expectations, etc.)? What advantages and disadvantages do you feel you have as a worker because of your time in academia (in terms of skill set, work ethic, expectations, etc.)?

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WT Grant Foundation

JULY 13, 2023

When foundation staff, selection committee members, or external reviewers evaluate the strength of a proposed study, they consider whether the research team is adequately staffed to carry out the project. 2 Small, Mario L. and Jessica M. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research.

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WT Grant Foundation

AUGUST 23, 2023

This program is as much about improving mentoring skills as it is about improving the research careers of mentees Applicants to the program assess their current strengths and weaknesses as mentors and propose goals for improving their mentoring skills.

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Grants4Good

JUNE 17, 2023

It has the ability to help take existing written content and quickly draft responses to grant proposal prompts, and to rework responses to adjust things like length and tone. The best thing to upload would be a recently written grant proposal of substantial length. As grant pros, we need to consider ethics, so this is a big issue.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tracks include consulting, evaluation and collaboration, federal grants, grants management and budgets, proposal development and communications strategies, and prospect research and donor relations. GPA categorizes sessions into education tracks that align with your career path.

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