Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

Early career experiences supporting corporate responses to competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) opportunities for business contracts provided insights into how to read, understand, and respond to RFPs. Later service as an external reviewer for government agency grant programs provided further insights into grant proposal best practices.

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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. Are you ready to re-kindle a strategy for “unsolicited proposals? ”. GPC Competencies: #1, 8, 9

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Grant Consulting Services

JUNE 27, 2024

CEUs towards acquiring the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) or maintaining your GPC certification when you complete all seven courses in the Grantegy program. Master the Art of Grant Writing: Learn the ins and outs of crafting captivating proposals that secure the grants you need. Now, you can earn up to 3.5

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Grant seeking, proposal development, and post-award management can fill some professionals with dread. Often, if funding is extremely needed, some entities can be more reserved around submitting collaborative grant proposals. Funders can sniff out desperation in a proposal. GPC Competencies: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #8, and #9.

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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. First, you want to look for open opportunities, commonly referred to as requests for proposals (RFP), notice of funding opportunities (NOFO), grant or funding cycles, or simply funding opportunities.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

At the least, we want to sit in on these meetings so we can understand the broader organizational context and frame our grant proposals and reports appropriately within this context. Understanding the Grant Process and What We Need to Succeed: Every grant professional wants to submit a quality proposal or report on time.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 9, 2024

As grant professionals, we have dedicated our careers to mastering how to write grants and completing competitive proposals. Experienced grant writers and grant writing consultants are important. Learning how to find a grant writer or grant consultant may initially be difficult. If this is accomplished, congratulations.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 9, 2024

As grant professionals, we have dedicated our careers to mastering how to write grants and completing competitive proposals. Experienced grant writers and grant writing consultants are important. Learning how to find a grant writer or grant consultant may initially be difficult. If this is accomplished, congratulations.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

It is the soul of your proposal, usually the first impression people have of your case, and the way you introduce your work to a funder. Everything should return to your stated need as it sets the tone for the rest of your proposal. And that is before you even get to character counts!

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We know in our hearts that funder relationships can mean the difference between a grant award or ending up in the pile of denied proposals. We aimed to collect data about the number of funded proposals that had relationships compared to organizations that did not have a relationship when the proposal was submitted.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Funds raised will help the Grant Professional Foundation award scholarships to grant professionals attending GrantSummit, joining GPA, and getting their GPC credential. In your downtime, peruse the Grant Professional Foundation’s Silent Auction. Get your bids in by 4:15 p.m. on Friday, November 3 rd !

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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. Identify gaps and new grant opportunities.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 10, 2024

We need to reapply for this funding and can tell you all about our work in our proposal. Based on your input, we'd like to submit a proposal aligned with your goals. We look forward to submitting a proposal." Author Bio: Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC, is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting.

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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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Grants4Good

MAY 3, 2024

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. 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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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 25, 2024

However, the process of building appropriate alliances and collaborating on grant proposals can seem intimidating or even risky. As grant professionals, shouldn’t we be exploring collaborations before submitting grant proposals? Prominently feature your strategic alliances in your grant proposals.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

3 Write sections of your grant proposal While AI cannot even come close replacing the depth of knowledge of an experienced grant professional, it can help you write sections of grant proposals. Author Bio: Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S. Try this prompt in Google Bard: “Which U.S. And most importantly, have fun!

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 19, 2022

This is why my firm, Think and Ink Grant Consulting ® is one of the few firms to offer grant management as a service. There is nothing worse than being three or four weeks into writing a proposal and you realize you have less than six weeks to fundraise new money to meet a match requirement.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 14, 2022

In addition to people moving jobs every few years and it’s good to have a few relationships at any one organization, gaining insight on your proposal from a few different folks works wonders. A seasoned grant writing firm like Think and Ink Grants (R) can help strategically align your proposal and help deploy a relationship-building strategy.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

But with proposal narratives that can reach 60+ pages in length, adding creative touches to break up a heavy narrative can make a federal proposal more readable and thus easier for reviewers to assess. The following summarizes ways in which I try to make my proposals stand out. Have you ever used humor in a grant application?

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Learning the difference between goals, outcomes, and outputs is key to writing competitive proposals. Our team at Think and Ink Grants Consulting® uses S.M.A.R.T. She is one of only 17 Grant Professional Certified (GPC) grant professionals in Georgia. This is the holy grail of grant writing. outcomes in our logic models.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Having worked in the field of immigrant and refugee services for over two decades and serving now in a consultant role, I've observed numerous challenges faced by individuals and organizations operating across language and culture. In this brief article, I aim to touch upon some of these challenges and propose potential solutions.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 27, 2021

Not doing your research Writing and submitting a competitive proposal takes time and a lot of research. Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™. Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™.

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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. Author Bio: Kellie Brungard, GPC (she/her), is a grant specialist at Assel Grant Services. Competency: 07.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 24, 2021

It isn't easy to write a competitive proposal without them. 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. outcomes win grants.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 22, 2023

You and I both know grant writing is not simply drafting persuasive proposals. She is the founder & CEO of Granted Fundraising Consultants, which serves nonprofits of all sizes and missions nationwide. GPC Competency: #7: Knowledge of practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers

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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 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. This may produce fear of dire outcomes – such as, “there’s no more need for us”. My best advice is: Just jump in!

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 22, 2024

Complete the application in ninety days, and we will present your proposal at the next board meeting.” Providing this guidance at the start ensures that grant proposals have the right expertise at the table, and the proposed work is vetted be the most appropriate staff at your organization. A decision tree is a great first step.

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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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