Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

Author Bio: Meredith Burke Hammons, PhD, GPC is the founder of Burke Hammons Consulting, a professional grant services firm, and a trainer for GrantWriting USA with over 15 years of experience in grant development, training, and research. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion from Davidson College.

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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. However, sometimes it is a great fit.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Leonard, GPC, RST. There was helpful new information provided, as well as important reminders to remember when working on federal grant applications. Build in time for the unexpected, like issues with the portal, out of office time for your “Authorized Organization Representative”, internal delays in getting necessary information, etc.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

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. million PMP certification holders worldwide through the Professional Management Institute ; only a few also hold their GPC, including one AGS team member.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 11, 2024

I am a grant writer - a consultant”, I replied. You are invited to join us there - I will send you the information.” “The Scrolling through the GPA’s website I learned about the Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) offered by the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI). Get your GPC. The what?”,

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Author Bio: Michael Weinrauch is a grants specialist operating Marysville Grants Consulting and a member of GPA Chapters in Canada and Kentucky as well as the GPA Ethics Committee. How do you celebrate IGPD?

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

However, following up numerous times for requests for information takes productive time away from our work and may even result in changes to the project schedule. If you are working with a consultant, time spent on project management is billable. of all the work I do.” Here are some of the top pet peeves grant professionals deal with.

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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. Competency #5: Knowledge of post-award grant management practices sufficient to inform effective grant design and development Skill 5.2:

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Think and Ink Grants

AUGUST 19, 2024

At Think and Ink Grant Consulting, we’ve developed a proven approach to winning federal grants across various agencies. Don’t bury crucial information in attachments. This approach helps ensure the information is retained. Some believe that federal grants are complex and challenging to navigate.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). If you allocate grant funding to salaries and wages, you will need this information for planning and management. Competency #5: Knowledge of post-award grant management practices sufficient to inform effective grant design and development Skill 5.1:

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This can include finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators (among others). If you are interested in learning more about grant management services, Julie Assel, CGMS, GPC, President/CEO , will be happy to talk with you about this opportunity and provide you with a quote for grant services.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Seek more information around why an organization is seeking grant funding, ask questions around the project components, and seek clarity around ambiguous information. In her career, she’s raised more than $45mm throughout her career via grants as both an in-house grant professional and independent consultant. Ask questions.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 8, 2024

For example, should information regarding data sources be located within “development” to ensure the concept was competitive? The presentation received acclaim for its potential use across diverse contexts—whether among a team of grant professionals or with solo consultants seeking to explain the grant process to clients.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 20, 2024

The letters are most often a two-page “brief” proposal that contains the information that your organization wants to convey to a foundation, while also acknowledging their giving pillars. He’s self-taught and had early success in grant writing while working in communications and project consulting. GPC Competencies: #1, 8, 9

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2024

Businesses, researchers, educators, and policymakers rely on SOC information to make decisions about wages, trends, job descriptions, and identify skill gaps. The GPC remains the only nationally accredited credential for Grant Professionals globally! Learn more at www.grantsforcities.org GPC Competency #7

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). If you are interested in learning more about grant management services, Julie Assel, CGMS, GPC, President/CEO , will be happy to talk with you about this opportunity and provide you with a quote for grant services.

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

If you have funding to invest in building your organization’s growth strategy but not the time to dive into research, contact a quality grant consulting firm like AGS with access to available funding data and the dedicated time to find potential matches. Downside: potential for information overload.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Our team at Think and Ink Grants Consulting® uses S.M.A.R.T. Check out additional information about what S.M.A.R.T. Our next article will bridge this information and communicate how goals, outcomes, and outputs inform logic models, so stay tuned. outcomes in our logic models. outcomes are here.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

A Questioner might be satiated by having an honest conversation with a funder to better understand why they require specific information. At this time, she is transitioning from a grants role in a nonprofit setting to assisting multiple clients as a consultant with Resurgens Impact Consulting.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

Engaging a consultant, such as the experts at AGS , can be an effective way to jump-start your prospecting efforts. With this information, work with the grant team to determine what program or need best aligns and how grant funding can support or impact the work. Another critical factor – a manageable deadline!

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 14, 2022

we regret to inform you that your application was not selected for funding." Sometimes there is no way to follow-up or there is no contact information provided." Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™. Now, this part is all we wanted to know, right ?

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

If you need more help to walk through what this could look like for your organization, talk to us or sign up for our newsletter for more information. Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™. Shavonn earned a BBA from Howard University and an MBA from Emory University.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

Whether as an employee for an organization tasked with grant seeking, or an independent grant consultant serving multiple organizations, as grant professionals, we support the mission or cause of the organization every time we craft a compelling narrative to convey the need, the population, and the difference the work makes.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether working as a consultant with various clients or as an in-house grant professional with one agency, I begin my process with the same strategy. All of this information is used to update 2024 deadlines, review amounts requested and secured, and identify proposed ask amounts.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 3, 2021

This information should also be included in the grant agreement between the fiscal sponsor and the funder. Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™. She earned the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) credential from the Grant Professionals Certification Institute in 2020.

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Grants4Good

MAY 3, 2024

And never enter confidential information into a prompt. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S. is Owner and CEO of Grants4Good LLC ®, a grant writing training and consulting company based in New York. AI will sift through vast data and generate a list of prospects. Try this prompt in Gemini: “Which U.S.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 17, 2024

Her background as an educator gives her a unique perspective that she brings to her current role as a Nonprofit Grant Consultant: Disseminating valuable information and giving clients the tools they need to propel their organizations to the next level. GPC Competencies: #8.1 #8.2

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 11, 2023

As a new consultant, one of my biggest hurdles has been building confidence in my experience and expertise. As grant professionals, whether in-house or consulting, we are often looked at as experts. We focus on a specific set of skills, that can be layered with expertise in a subject, and use those skills to fill information gaps.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 13, 2024

While they each are - or should be - experts in their program areas, we are experts in presenting that information while keeping concepts of storytelling, data, requirements, and limitations in mind. GPC Competency: #3 and #4 Take, for example, the importance of knowing how to ask questions.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Questions: How often do you use charts, infographics, and other visual data in a proposal to deliver information? Her broad background is the foundation for SFG Consulting Services LLC , working with human services and local municipalities. When was the last time you were able to include a nonprofit’s story in a proposal?

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 5, 2023

This flexibility allows individuals to provide information using their preferred methods, breaking down barriers and ensuring higher response rates. Second, AI allows real-time monitoring, providing timely insights to inform adaptive interventions.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 22, 2023

While the easiest option in the moment might be to brush off others’ ill-informed comments, an eye-roll doesn’t address the long-term impact these interactions have on our mental health and, consequently, on the development field as a whole. I mean, seriously, what other entire field is considered to be beginner-level?!)

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

A strong evaluation provides valuable information for data-based decision-making to inform program refinements and continuous improvement. Drafting the Evaluation Budget Your first step in drafting an evaluation budget is to consult with finance staff and program staff.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Capacity: Having a cadre of well-trained staff or consultants, the necessary equipment, and infrastructure indicates that the evaluator is prepared to take on the evaluation. Competency #5: Knowledge of post-award grant management practices sufficient to inform effective grant design and development; Skill 5.4:

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While the geniuses behind AI often claim it is NOT plagiarism, we also know their algorithms pull the information from existing content - it comes from somewhere. Seeking funders : At the iLearnLive event, Margit Brazda Poirier demonstrated how she uses AI to find information about different funders.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

GPA has more information on these in the frequently asked questions section and a helpful YouTube video. Funds raised will help the Grant Professional Foundation award scholarships to grant professionals attending GrantSummit, joining GPA, and getting their GPC credential. There is also an application for Apple and Google users.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 9, 2025

I know it increases my anxiety, limits my ability to dream, and exposes me to WAY too much information. This broad experience and ability to see through all constituents' eyes helped her establish Keri McDonald Consulting, LLC, specializing in communications and grant writing and primarily serving human services organizations.

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