Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

When I stepped into the role, there werent any templates, process documents, or systems to guide me, just a dozen open tabs and a handful of old applications that I kept scavenging for useful language. I was too busy firing off last-minute applications, tracking down signatures, and frantically submitting grant reports.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

In addition, some funders have complex applications or extensive reporting that might be a strain for small organizations with limited resources. You can find other blog posts in this series here. AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Its always satisfying when you can include a Memorandum of Understanding, signed six months earlier, as an attachment to your application. Who fills out the SF-424 application? Whatever your individual assignment is for the application, dont wait until the day before its due to realize youve bitten off more than you can chew.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

With the ever-changing needs of the labor market, employers are increasingly looking to credentials as a way to find qualified applicants and hires. The Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential is based on competencies and skills that directly reflect the real-world requirements of grant writing and management.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Keep the Relationship Where It Belongs: As a consultant, your name should never appear on a clients grant application. Even worse, Ive seen consultants use their name recognition or insider funder relationships to get applications over the finish line. The relationship with the funder, first and foremost, belongs to the nonprofit.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

While self-awareness is important, so is understanding the factors that are beyond your control in an application. If your organization is a first-time applicant, building a relationship with a funder can be important to the process. Outside of the application, how have you connected with the foundation or program officers?

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Some organizations have a well-established grants culture, while others are still learning what it takes to prepare grant applications. Without these employees buy-ins, even the best strategies will struggle. As the grant professional, you are their leader and educatorhelping your colleagues understand why their involvement matters.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

Data is a key component of any strong grant application. When grant applications call for evidence that your proposed intervention works, citing scientific articles can strengthen your case. Whats one trick youve used to locate high-quality data for grant applications? Relevant data can be found on pages 16 and 19.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

Managing the grants process from the application stage through the final reporting works best when there is collaboration from many staff members! Author Bio : Margaret Currie, GPC, is the Grants Manager for Cuyahoga County Public Library where she manages over 50 grants. GPC Competencies: 2,3,4,5

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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! 2) As an approach to storytelling in the application. Today we examine the choice (dilemma?)

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. Follow along with the small nonprofit blog series by subscribing for updates. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Subject matter partnerships benefit programs, organizations, and team members through shared knowledge and divided challenges, and they can even make the application process enjoyable. Set your partners up for success: Collaborators are typically busy professionals for whom a grant application is added labor.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

I admired and looked up to fellow chapter members who were grant writing veterans, many of whom had their GPC. Little did I know those conversations, and applying for a GPC scholarship, would change the trajectory of my career and my life forever. My fellow chapter members told me about the GPC scholarship and said I should apply.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Perhaps letting go of small or cumbersome applications would make way for larger award opportunities. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Competency #7: Knowledge of practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers Skill 7.3:

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

The application process: If it is invitation-only, I put the funder in a separate section to let the client know that an application first requires building a relationship with the funder to secure an invitation, which takes intentional effort and time. Finances: How much money does the funder have to grant?

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Program design is the heart of any successful grant application. GPC Competency: #9 How a strong program design transforms an initial idea into a persuasive, fundable case for support. Cloud-based collaboration lets our teams work from anywhere, editing in real time – no carbon paper required. Website: babetteallenconsulting.com.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

Have you ever stopped to consider the reasons why you sign up for webinars, attain or continue to maintain your grant professional certification (GPC), or set out to learn an entirely new skill set (like project management)? The post Advancing Knowledge: Knowing your “Why” by Kellie Brungard, GPC first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

This blog will explore key strategies and tips to enhance your grant writing skills, helping your organization to secure the funding it deserves. Engage in conversations with peers and seek out mentorship opportunities to learn about successful grant applications and strategies. About Shavonn V.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 22, 2024

This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Identify methods of building partnerships and facilitating collaborations among co-applicants The post Blog Title: Are You Listening? By Ashley Dooley, GPC first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

All too often, an organization will set unrealistic goals without adequate resources or available opportunities or set unreasonable expectations for the number of applications an individual needs to submit. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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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. The application phase is often the focus of our work as grant professionals. Eligible applicants must pass a certification exam. There are 1.4

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 28, 2024

She let me read the application, the award letter, and the reporting and management requirements. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. I have program tasks and schools to visit!”

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Grant Management Considerations Understanding and following tracking procedures for outcomes, time and effort, and procurement are key to maintaining ethical practices when preparing an application and managing grant funds. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 14, 2024

Does your organization only connect with the funder during the application cycle each year? Before starting an application, research the funder’s priorities , requirements, and recent giving, making note of any changes or trends. Look at the applications submitted to the funder for the last two years. Give content a refresh.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 15, 2024

If you are interested in grant services, training, or federal review services, or are interested in our career opportunities, 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

MARCH 3, 2024

It would be nice to be appreciated for our impact on organizations that goes far beyond writing applications and completing reports. Of course, we also want the application to be funded. All contributors are anonymous; however, much of the content in this blog is paraphrased from their responses.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

During this formal application process, the organization must demonstrate how the funding will support its program. Developing a working relationship with grant officers or program staff allows nonprofits to seek guidance, clarify expectations, and even receive application feedback. You can find other blog posts in this series here.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Seeking evidence for this well known relational claim, the author and her team began tracking the firm’s grant application submissions and funder responses. Over the period of 18 months, from July 1 2022-December 30, 2023, our team submitted a total of 195 competitive grant applications on behalf of client organizations.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 15, 2024

Have you ever stopped to consider the reasons why you sign up for webinars, attain or continue to maintain your grant professional certification (GPC), or set out to learn an entirely new skill set (like project management)? Author Bio: Kellie Brungard, GPC (she/her), is a grant specialist at Assel Grant Services. GPC Competency: 7

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 19, 2023

Question 3: Solving the problem Finally, we get to the portion of planning an application where you start to spell out the main activities you will do to address the problem you identified. GPC Competencies: 1,3,4,9 At the end, you should have a clear set of points to identify why the problem hasn’t been addressed yet.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

There are two important things to remember when broaching grant management: You don’t have to change everything overnight, so take learning piece by piece and you will continue to grow your understanding and application. Subscribe to our blog to follow along! It doesn’t have to be scary.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 16, 2024

If you are interested in grant services, training, or federal review services, or are interested in our career opportunities, 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. D, GPC, CFRE first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There are two essential things to remember when broaching grant management: You don’t have to change everything overnight, so take learning piece by piece and you will continue to grow your understanding and application. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 14, 2024

You can find other blog posts in this series here. If you are interested in grant services, training, or federal review services, or are interested in our career opportunities, 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

JUNE 28, 2024

This present blog piece provides tips on how best to tailor your selection of continuing education activities over the life course. If you are a current GPC in the process of renewing your GPCI through the Certificate Maintenance Program (CMP), 20% of the education documented must be AEP-approved. grant-focused lens).

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

There are two essential things to remember when broaching grant management: You don’t have to change everything overnight, so take learning piece by piece, and you will continue to grow your understanding and application. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 2, 2024

This blog post delves into the world of federal competitions, exploring their significance, impact, and considerations for interested organizations. Subscribe the challenge.gov , a resource to look at current and archived challenges with criteria and application guidelines. Considering Federal Competitions?

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