Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Grant professionals cannot successfully and ethically develop grant proposals and applications without learning “tricks of the trade.” In 2023, GPCI presented three CMP awards and 11 GPC TM Exam scholarships to recipients. For the 2023 GrantSummit, GPF awarded 14 scholarships for grant professionals to attend virtually and in person.

GPCI

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. This produces higher quality grant applications and ensures funded projects are more effectively managed while reducing risk and fraud.

GPC

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. A pre-submission review and approval process — including checklists of required application elements, organization, and format and a review for consistency among all elements (e.g.,

Grant Management

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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. News & World Report’s Best Nonprofit Management Programs blog. Check out the TechSoup blog and the grant writing section.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 25, 2024

But, as funders review numerous applications from organizations with similar missions, target audiences, and geographies, they see opportunities to join together and maximize impact. GPCI Competency: 2, 3 Too often a scarcity mindset has kept nonprofits from seeking creative affiliations.

Subcontractor

Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

GPA Learning Pathways: A self-guided curriculum centered around a specific topic, including webinars, podcasts, journal articles, strategy papers, blog post articles, and microlearning videos. GPCI Competencies AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

GPC

Assel Grant Services

JUNE 16, 2024

GPCI Competencies AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Competency #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application. document transfer, accuracy in post-award fiscal and activity reporting).

GPC

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!”

GPC

Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

The application phase is often the focus of our work as grant professionals. Eligible applicants must pass a certification exam. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Browse available topics, and sign up to receive information about upcoming trainings here.

GPC

Assel Grant Services

JUNE 9, 2024

If you don’t know how to create this type of tool, stay tuned for a future blog post on that topic. We will address how to analyze quantitative and qualitative data in future blog posts in this series. Competency #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application.

GPC

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 18, 2023

Procurement is the oversight process for ensuring compliance with applicable federal requirements related to subrecipient and contractual partnerships. GPCI Competency(ies): 05. When it comes to post-award grants management, a huge focus area (and an area ripe with single audit findings) is procurement.

Procurement

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There is also an application for Apple and Google users. GPA provides a continuing education tracker for GPCI and CFRE-approved courses. I like to head into conference week with a grasp of the conference schedule, some sessions I would like to attend, and maybe a restaurant or two in mind to grab a meal with colleagues.

GPC

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

In these uncertain times marked by increased competition for funding, it is critical to strengthen every part of your application. The grant budget and budget narrative can be real assets for your applications if done properly. GPCI Competency 4: Crafting, constructing, and submitting an effective grant application

Budget

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 7, 2025

Understandably so, without infrastructure, experience, and data, funders eligibility criteria often make it difficult for these non-profits to successfully compete for grants-- and we want all our applications to be awarded. GPCI Competencies: 1, 2, and 8

Grant Readiness