Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Will 2025 be the year you earn your Grant Professionals Certification (GPC)? The Grant Professionals Certification Institutes (GPCI) scholarship program seeks to assist qualified prospective GPCs with funds needed to sit for the exam. If you are uncertain, please take the eligibility quiz: The GPC Eligibility Quiz Survey.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

However, in todays funding landscape, the most important W - Who - is often overlooked. Consider the difference between two grant-funded projects: One secures a major grant but lacks community input, resulting in services that go unused or fail to address real needs.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

Eleven percent of survey respondents reported being new to the field or GPA as the reason for not earning their GPC, while 7% were unaware of it and 11% lacked the time. Grant Professional Certification Institute The GPCI administers the nationally recognized GPC credential to grant professionals. so I never got around to it.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Many organizations struggle to articulate their why, or what they need funding forwhich can make your job both frustrating and inefficient.

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for nonprofits, artists, and educators in Atlanta, aimed at securing funding to enhance community projects and initiatives. This blog delves into the nuances of grant writing, exploring best practices, resources, and success stories from the heart of Georgia. Networking opportunities abound as well.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential is based on competencies and skills that directly reflect the real-world requirements of grant writing and management. The GPC credential signals precisely the expertise and ethical rigor employees need when managing grant funding.

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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. When consultants cross that line, it almost always creates confusion, disrupts stewardship, and jeopardizes funding continuity. And look, I get it. But the impact?

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Remember when research meant a trip to the library, flipping through fat foundation directories, praying the funding source you found wasn’t from a different year? Digital research platforms give us up-to-date stats and funding sources at our fingertips. Technology supports every part of the process.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the last few weeks of the year, ensure your final 2024 submissions are on time, needed funds are requested, and reports are in order. How did your team respond to changes in the grant profession, such as the new Uniform Guidance for federal funds? Contact her at ehnert@cord.edu or via linked in [link] GPC Competencies: 1 & 2

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for local nonprofits seeking funding to support their missions. This blog will explore key strategies and tips to enhance your grant writing skills, helping your organization to secure the funding it deserves. Moreover, understanding the vision and mission of the funding organization is pivotal.

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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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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If there is one thing foundations love to fund, its new collaborations. Then you go searching for someone willing to fund it. How will you dole out the funds? GPC Competency: #3 Knowledge of strategies for effective program and project design and development. It's also an opportunity for the grant writer to shine.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

Understanding AIs Role in Grant Writing AI offers powerful tools for grant professionals: Research Assistance: Tools like ChatGPT streamline research into funding opportunities. Proposal Drafting: AI can create drafts tailored to specific funding agencies, improving alignment with solicitation requirements. GPC Competency: 5.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

Grant funding is complex. There are a multitude of funding streams, networks and relationships, and preferences involved—most of which are beyond your control. Market For many funders, market instability can have a substantial impact on their invested funds and cause them to limit or pause their giving.

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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. Funding history: Does the funder have a history of funding the same, specific geographic area? Does the funder have a history of funding organizations with similar missions?

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

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 11, 2024

There is growing consensus that the expectation of “gratitude” in the form of thank-you notes actually perpetuates an imbalance of power between nonprofits and funders and negatively impacts the great work you could be doing together ( NonprofitAF Blog, 2023 ). Do what you said you were going to do with the grant funds they provided.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Author Bio : Shauna OToole, MA, CFRE, GPC is a Grants Associate with Assel Grant Services with a background as a practicing development director. million in foundation, corporate, federal, federated, and local government funding since 2015. GPC Competency #2, #3, and #4 Shauna has secured $2.5

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 30, 2024

If you are tasked with finding funds to support an organization’s mission, you better put on your research hat. Another effective way to research foundations – private and corporate, charitable funds, and trusts is through paid subscription services. Identify methods of locating funding sources Skill 6.4:

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

When emailing, introduce yourself as a grant writer working to secure nonprofit funding. I recently came across your article, [Article Title], and I believe its data would significantly strengthen our proposal for funding. Start by clicking on the article title in Google Scholar. Would you be willing to share an authors copy?

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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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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

Now, it’s time to ensure that you are a great steward of the grant funds that you have received. Small or large, the integrity with which any organization stewards the grants they receive is paramount to receiving future funding. Follow along with the small nonprofit blog series by subscribing for updates.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

This can help an organization set a realistic goal for grant funding to be raised, identify additional capacity that will be needed, and develop plans for stretch goals. 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

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

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 28, 2024

In 2002, I was managing a grant-funded violence prevention program at a small-ish nonprofit organization in the Kansas City metropolitan area. 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. I have program tasks and schools to visit!”

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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. million PMP certification holders worldwide through the Professional Management Institute ; only a few also hold their GPC, including one AGS team member.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

When it comes to nonprofit funding, these two terms are often used interchangeably. Nonprofit professionals know that both funding streams mean revenue for their organization but may only have a vague understanding of the distinct characteristics and requirements of each. That makes it a grant.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) was established in January 2006 to ensure resources are available to educate, credential, and assist grant professionals who secure the funding necessary for not-for-profits to serve the greater good. Key Details Applications will open starting January 2025; our committee will review them later.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Too often, grant management is seen as a scary, messy aspect of grant funding, and we have a vague understanding of the requirements or components. These are common scenarios, and while they may be new or unknown, taking steps to understand how grant funds should be managed is critical to the nonprofit’s success.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Mission Creep Organizations often see grant funding as an opportunity to launch a new program. The GPA code of ethics requires all solicitation materials are “accurate and correctly reflect” the organization’s mission and use of funds. The ethical considerations depend on which came first – the chicken or the egg.

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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

APRIL 14, 2024

Grant professionals understand the nuances of grant seeking and can see the industry landscape increase in competitiveness as more organizations apply for funding and foundations give conservatively in response to volatile markets. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

MAY 26, 2024

It’s also not infrequent that grant professionals are excluded from project planning or meetings with potential funders until late in project development when they are asked to “just” find funding or write a grant. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Compliance and best practices in grant management is usually associated with federal grant awards, but it equally applies to state and local government funding, pass-through funding (which likely originated at the federal level), and foundation and corporate grants (though maybe not as stringent).

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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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The Importance of Branding: So, how do small organizations make themselves competitive for both recognition and increased funding? Stay tuned as we continue this blog series tailored for small organizations with tips for managing grant prospect research, organizing for success, self-advocacy, and more. Registration is live!

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