DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 9, 2025

Grammar Kerfuffles: Second Installment ( View the other installments here ) Welcome to installment #2 of the grant writing blog series Grammar Kerfuffles, presented for you by DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services! First person singular (I or me) feels awkward (at best) in most grant writing.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

To expand their grant seeking, organizations often ask for more funding prospects but more doesnt always mean better. Applying to every possible grant opportunity, even ones that arent a good fit, wastes time and money and risks alienating funders. How many grants did they fund per year? She holds a Ph.D.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

GSAs Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF) has identified more than 400 standard data elements for grants management alone. New Realities for Grant Reporting The governments capacity to run data analytics on federal spending is not only a reality, but a routine. GPC Competencies: #1

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, especially during proposal development, has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my 26+ years working in nonprofits. Yet, fostering a productive proposal-building environment often presents scheduling and communication hurdles. GPC Competencies: #3 and #4

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

Denial can be challenging, especially when your grant proposals seem to be on a losing streak. Before you start rethinking your grant strategy or wondering if you’re doing something wrong, there may be other proactive steps and factors to take into consideration. Grant funding is complex.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 8, 2024

Experienced grant professionals possess a wealth of knowledge, employing tools to navigate the grant process. Initially, sticky notes were used to document each step of the grant process. The result was the creation of the Dynamic Grants Manual—a comprehensive resource that furthered its initial purpose.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Grant seeking, proposal development, and post-award management can fill some professionals with dread. These situations present a unique opportunity to partner and participate in collaborative grant-seeking. Do research around grant projects or programs that entities seek to fund. Limiting grant involvement.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 13, 2024

This is why fundraisers like grant professionals exist. Being a grant professional teaches you just how crucial it is to get buy-in from program staff at all stages of the grant life cycle. Being a grant professional teaches you just how crucial it is to get buy-in from program staff at all stages of the grant life cycle.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 16, 2024

Fully describe the setting, individuals present, and the general mood. Often, the observer has no control over who happens to be present that day, and it is difficult to know what unique characteristics of those being observed. Competency #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

A recent State of the Sector webinar on Advocacy in Nonprofit Organizations in my community led to reflection on how opportunities to be an advocate present themselves in my career as a grant professional. How do you see yourself as an advocate in your work as a grant professional? Sound like anyone you know?

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As Grant Professionals, we hear repeatedly that relationships with funders are incredibly important. 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. Thirty-seven grant applications were submitted with an existing relationship at some level.

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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.” Across the nonprofit sector, there are countless variations in the relationship between organizational grant professionals and philanthropy departments. Clearly define for your organization the difference between a gift and a grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Or, has your employment changed, and your new employer cannot pay for your Grant Professionals Association (GPA) membership? Do you have the goal of obtaining your GPC TM soon? If these are items on your “grant bucket list,” there is funding available to help cover the costs. Last year, GPF provided 18 membership scholarships.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I taught for a short time, completed a Master’s degree, some life happened, and the next thing I knew I was a Grants Coordinator for a large school district. A little over 20 years later I was asked to teach an undergraduate grant writing class at my alma mater. What else can we do to grow the next generation of grant professionals?

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 21, 2024

Have you encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal? This blog will briefly describe Tuckman’s framework and then apply these ideas to grant proposal development. Usually, a grant professional will hustle off to the next project. Take heart. This is normal.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 19, 2022

Clean Your Room Reporting, lack of reporting, or mismanaging a grant is one of the fastest ways to lose funding. This is why my firm, Think and Ink Grant Consulting ® is one of the few firms to offer grant management as a service. She is a Grant Professional Association Approved Trainer, presenter, and speaker.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 10, 2024

At chapter events, you can meet area funders, learn about local issues, get tips on upcoming grant opportunities, and encounter potential program partners. Suggest discussion topics, invite your favorite experts to speak, or give a presentation yourself. As one Chicago member stated, “I am new to GPA. Volunteer involvement.

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Think and Ink Grants

APRIL 28, 2022

Here are five things children can teach us about writing grants: 1. Feedback is sometimes tough, but you should always have a zest for learning and improving your grant writing skills. Shavonn __ About Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

In the ever-changing profession of grant writing, staying on top of new trends and practices is critical for continued success. This present blog piece provides tips on how best to tailor your selection of continuing education activities over the life course. Or apply for a scholarship or grant for yourself!) Execute your plan!

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 22, 2024

Be mindful and present in each activity of your day. Communication is a key component to successful teamwork for grant professionals. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. By Ashley Dooley, GPC first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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Assel Grant Services

MAY 6, 2024

Audited financials are a common component of grant readiness discussions and are often requested by funders. Audit findings are commonly addressed in grant applications; having a plan in place will streamline this and articulate the actions taken to potential funders. Assess organizations’ capacity for grant-seeking Skill 2.3:

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I had the esteemed pleasure of presenting at the Grant Professionals Conference (www.[link] Last year, I presented the session "Logic Model LIVE!". It was so popular that I did an encore presentation for not 1.5 A three-hour presentation is some serious commitment. hours but 3 full hours.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I have always believed that “data gets grants, and stories get donors.” Increase your storytelling by inserting a table, chart, or infographic to present your data effectively. Jeanne first worked with grants for a local government, where she researched, submitted, and managed federal grants totaling $6 million.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In early November 2023, I attended GrantSummit (formerly known as the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Annual Conference) in Kansas City, Missouri. This multi-day conference is the premier professional development event for grant professionals in the U.S. Grant professionals are mighty.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 9, 2024

Keep in mind that data storage and data presentation are two separate functions, so your spreadsheet will look messy and difficult to decipher. AGS offers several on-demand webinars on a variety of topics to support the full grant cycle, in addition to an Evaluation Training Series ! GPC, CFRE first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

I don’t mean to infer that reading grants is boring, and I’m not promoting performance-enhancing drugs. I’ve written grants, primarily federal grants, for more than 30 years, but my love is creative writing. Some might see creative writing as antithetical to federal grant writing. In a federal grant? My outline?

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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. What AI Cannot Do: Grant Professionals’ “Secret Sauce” Developers are constantly expanding and improving AI’s capabilities.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the past year, I have been asked to present on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) more than any other topic. As you can imagine, the presentation looks different each time as the evolution of Large LanguageModels/Generative AI is ever changing. which remains a concern for grant professionals.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Whether you attended online or in person, if you are similar to me, the 2023 Grant Summit delivered a knowledge-packed four days of learning, discovering new resources, meeting amazing people, and if you were in person, enjoying Foundant caramels and the first-ever GPCI sponsored dance party! Follow your favorite speakers on social media.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. From grant prospecting, to drafting the narrative, designing programs, crafting budgets, and managing grants post-award, the responsibility was on my shoulders.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 13, 2024

As grant directors, managers, and writers we need to understand what we are writing about in our proposals, especially if we aren’t involved directly in the project or program development. Consider these questions for yourself: Are you confident in presenting the necessary questions? GPC Competency: #3 and #4

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MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer? Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer?

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 1, 2023

Grant applications often ask for racial demographics of board, staff, and clients as well as LGBTQ+, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disabilities, age, etc. In many geographies, racial diversity may not even be present. 2 It may be helpful to point this out in your grant applications. In 19 states, it’s under 5%.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Maybe your organization doesn’t have the internal expertise or time to conduct a program evaluation yourself, or a grant funder requires a third-party evaluation. 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.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Know Before You Go This year, GrantSummit is bringing all the grant pros to our hometown, Kansas City, Missouri! Assel Grant Services (AGS) is based here in the Heartland Chapter with staff spanning Kansas to Virginia and from Ohio down to Kentucky. In your downtime, peruse the Grant Professional Foundation’s Silent Auction.

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