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

JUNE 3, 2025

Were often the ones shaping narratives, refining budgets, and crafting the compelling language that helps nonprofit organizations secure critical funding. Ghostwriting is one of the most common, yet least talked about, practices in grant writing, especially for consultants. Ghostwriting done well is invisible. But the impact?

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Who constructs the budget? GPC Competency: #3 Knowledge of strategies for effective program and project design and development. If youre the only grant writer, you still need to secure your head writer status, so youve got each executive directors permission to approach a member of their staff with assignments. Divide up the writing.

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Logic Model Grant Grants GPC 59

Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

Review the project budget and how your grant fits into that financial structure. 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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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Defining Small Nonprofits: Whether a nonprofit or not-for-profit , a charitable organization’s “size” is not determined by its facility, number of staff, or services to the public but by the size of its operating budget. Follow along with the small nonprofit blog series by subscribing for updates. nonprofit sector as a whole.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Before I began working as a grant consultant, I did not understand all the details and intricacies of grant budgets, including the difference between restricted and unrestricted funds. This experience taught both me and the nonprofit the benefits and challenges of having restricted funding in their budgets.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

We truly know the organization’s story, from budgets to program outcomes, better than almost anyone.” We are bound to the strategy, outcomes, budgets, and deliverables decided at these meetings. All contributors are anonymous; however, much of the content in this blog is paraphrased from their responses. of all the work I do.”

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Where one team members strength may be analyzing budgets or data, anothers strength may be relating to clients or community partners. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute s Competencies and Skills. No one person on the team needs to have all the answers.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

Post-covid, more than $5 trillion has been awarded, with $247 billion in improper payments, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE). GPC Competencies: #1

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

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. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This process will likely include outlining a detailed budget, timeline, and measurable outcomes. You can find other blog posts in this series here. AGS also offers several on-demand webinars on a variety of topics to support the full grant cycle, including grant budgeting, compliance, and grant management.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

The best practice is to reduce risk by accepting a salary or fee for grant writing services that are not included in the proposal budget. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Ethics GPC Grant Writing Grant Management 40

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There are many nuances to indirect costs that an organization should be aware of and consider if they choose to request within grant budgets. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. That is an indirect expense to this particular grant project.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In 1997, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised its standards on federal race and ethnicity definitions. This blog was originally posted by GPA Grant News. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, appropriations are “decisions made by Congress about how to allocate a portion of federal spending. The appropriations process generally addresses the discretionary portion of the federal budget.” In general, these two categories are part of the appropriations process.

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GPC Funding Budget Federal Grants 40

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

Proposal team development process — identifying and pulling together a team that includes appropriate skills, experience, and expertise: Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for content, writing and proofreading/editing, budget development, and graphics. GPC Competencies #2, #4, #7 and, #9 Author Bio: Cheryl A. Townsel, S.M.,

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) adopted the NAICS system to compare business statistics among North American countries. The GPC remains the only nationally accredited credential for Grant Professionals globally! Learn more at www.grantsforcities.org GPC Competency #7 Census Bureau, 2024).

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 8, 2024

Patterns soon emerged, which were broken down into four stages: development, narrative writing, budgeting, and submission. Ellen Withrow, GPC, served for more than 25 years as the Grants, Research, & Development Coordinator for the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit (CSIU), an educational service agency in rural Pennsylvania.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, the information provided in the narrative, budget, and attachments didn’t come close to answering the questions posed on the application. Author Bio: Kimberly Hays de Muga, GPC, is the cofounder and cohost of Fundraising HayDay, a podcast about grants and such. Mastering the art of feedback can help make that happen.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 22, 2024

There are attachment upload buttons for unasked-for resumes, not-yet-created project budgets, and audits that must live somewhere. It is generally accepted that any funding that is time-limited, designated for a specific purpose, and requires a program or project budget for expending the funds is a grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 14, 2023

The grant proposal and its many components, such as the workplan, objectives, evaluation metrics, and budget, will serve as the blueprint for measuring post-award progress and set important perimeters for project completion. GPC Competencies: 2, 3, 5, 8 Here are some initial steps and best practices to help ensure project feasibility.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 8, 2023

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

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Grant Management Software GPC Grant Management Award 52

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 29, 2024

The percentage, known as the indirect cost rate, is established by the organization based on its accounting and budgeting guidelines. Author Bio: Jasmine Markanday, CGMS, GPC, MBA, RPO, is an experienced grant professional with expertise in federal grant writing, management, and indirect cost rate negotiations.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Some elements of grant readiness are having 501c3 paperwork, a board of trustees, a bank account, organizational budget, accounting staff, mission/vision statements and staff capacity and experience to handle a project. Travel budgets are tight, but webinars often feature industry experts who offered terrific advice and insights.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 1997, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised its standards on federal race and ethnicity definitions. Author Bio: Ashley Dooley received her MBA from Trinity College, Dublin in 2007 and earned her GPC in 2022. This ensures that all federal agencies and programs, including the U.S.

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Demographics GPC Management Budget 64

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

When I’m trying to balance a Logic Model, Work Plan, twelve attachments, budget narrative, project abstract, and a thirty-page narrative, the last thing I need are twenty-minute debates about “how come they are getting more than we are?” He has successfully written more than $70 million in awarded grants and received his GPC in 2016.

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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. You can tell the story about your nonprofit’s work through its budget.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 13, 2024

Are you prepared that your questions may result in finding internal gaps, not just in programs but also in budgets and potential organizational structures? GPC Competency: #3 and #4 Are you curious enough to think like a potential funder of potential gaps in the proposal?

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Key application requirements are a narrative that includes your efforts to advance racial equity, a budget, a chart of project milestones and deliverables, and letters of commitment from all partners involved as well as an. There are scoring and funding incentives for applicants that cover more than one geographic region (e.g.,

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In terms of budget, projects with a larger scope may be eligible to request larger amounts for up to three or five years of support, depending on the track and project. Julie Assel, GPC, President/CEO , will be happy to talk with you about this opportunity and provide you with a quote for grant services. Start preparing for next year!

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the budget-strapped nonprofit world, staff are habitually expected to do the job of more than one person. Dana was the first person in Oklahoma to earn dual certification as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and a Grant Professional Certified (GPC). Let’s start with the negatives.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 24, 2024

It’s alarming how much we lie on our org budgets and shortchange ourselves…. Stop thinking a shoe-string budget is some mark of resourcefulness and efficiency. Don’t set a budgeting precedent that leaves your staff overworked and underpaid. Identify factors that limit how budgets are written (e.g.,

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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. Pursuing Federal Grants: Understanding the Federal Budget Process Julie Assel, GPA Approved Trainer and Julie Alsup, GPA Approved Trainer Friday, 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.

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