Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

This is becoming a more frequent question on grant applications and can support the grant team in demonstrating the leaderships connection to the population served. What does that mean? This commitment by an organizations governing body is the crux of fiduciary responsibility. Offer to make connections and introductions. Celebrate the wins.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Will 2025 be the year you earn your Grant Professionals Certification (GPC)? If you are uncertain, please take the eligibility quiz: The GPC Eligibility Quiz Survey. Please see the scholarship page for more information: GPC Scholarships GPCI. Dont wait until the last minute to review the application!

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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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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

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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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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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 30, 2024

There are a few common questions grantmakers will ask to see how if a grant applicant is a high-performing nonprofit: "Tell us about your organization." Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting. Grantmakers love funding high-performing organizations. What are your goals?"

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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. What factors influence whether an opportunity is pursued? Do program staff and senior leaders have the capacity and commitment to support the process? Do You Have Strong Support from the Grants Team?

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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? Here are some tips and tricks to help you access it.

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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. Grants Management is smoother when its a team effort.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Similarly, collaborating with nonprofit leaders can provide direct pathways to winning grants, such as: Partnering on projects and applications. Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting. Reinforce other skill-building strategies, such as reading and mentorship. Subcontracting opportunities.

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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. It is challenging for many nonprofits to find the right grant opportunities. It can be tempting to go after every grant opportunity. However, being selective is important.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 11, 2025

Grant writers need to master the difference between objectives and outcomes, because grant applications often require us to lay out our plan in detail to show careful and thoughtful planning, and funders almost always require them both. ” She makes an excellent point. ” Diane H.

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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. Don’t even get me started on the dreaded paper jams. Yet, even amidst those struggles, we had something powerful – vision.

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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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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. Giving USA ’s 2023 Annual Report on Philanthropy shows that “total giving to U.S.

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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. Here are some tips and strategies recommended by grant professionals: Unrealistic expectations of fundraising – evaluate what realistic fundraising would look like given available capacity and opportunities.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. Staying on top of your grant projects doesn’t necessarily require fancy software or the newest technology. Data or donor management systems are excellent tools, but you only get out of them what you put in.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 9, 2025

Before you begin writing the documents in your application, choose the voice you will use throughout, either first or third person. 2) As an approach to storytelling in the application. between first person and third person, which arises regularly in grant writing (as you very likely know). About first person. Why use first person.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Engage in conversations with peers and seek out mentorship opportunities to learn about successful grant applications and strategies. Grant writing is a vital skill for local nonprofits seeking funding to support their missions. Each grants comes with its own set of criteria, expectations, and reporting requirements.

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And since hard copy applications are few and far between, our staff noted that binder clips are great for holding bags of snacks shut, organizing the cords behind your desk, and in a pinch, a bookmark. I do not know what it is about curated lists of themed items, but I am a sucker for a good gift guide. Do I need more cozy socks?

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 4, 2024

Author Bio: Amanda Acton, GPC (she/her) is a grant professional living in Central Iowa (unceded traditional lands of the Baxoje). GPC Competencies: #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application and #9: Ability to write a convincing case for funding Relevance: Why does it matter?

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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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 22, 2024

Communicating the potential consequences of delays, such as the increased likelihood of errors that could compromise the grant application’s success, helps underscore the importance of timely information submission. appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing 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. Yet data helps leadership and the board of directors quantify the year-to-year success and progress toward department goals.

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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. The second site, www.usaspending.gov, shows you the percentage of applications that were funded for each opportunity and also lists which organizations were funded.

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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

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 We start with asking three questions that will end up being the foundation for the proposal.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 16, 2024

For example, you want to determine if a motivational guest speaker sparks interest in at-risk youth in a college preparatory program. T ypes of Observation: There are many types of observation, each with its own pros and cons. The observer may use a hidden camera or pretend to be part of the group. Observation has strong validity.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

With grant writers shepherding non-profit collaborators in the same direction, the requirements of the application and the funder can be met; a cohesive and convincing case for funding can be produced; a functional network to meet the needs of the target population can be created; and a new or expanded service can be put in place.

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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. Instead of admonishing me for my inexperience and poor attitude, she invited me into her space and showed me the grant that funded my program. In time, I learned to love her job, too.

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Fundraising HayDay

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Today's guest is Diane Leonard, GPC, President of DH Leonard Consulting. While Scrum was created for faster production of software development, it is an applicable framework for so much more. Today's guest is Diane Leonard, GPC, President of DH Leonard Consulting. Scrum is the art of doing twice the work in half time.

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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. Why is this addressed so thoroughly?

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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

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. That makes it a grant.

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