Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This blog delves into the nuances of grant writing, exploring best practices, resources, and success stories from the heart of Georgia. By applying the insights shared in this blog, you can enhance your ability to write persuasive grants that resonate with funders and lead to positive change. Shavonn * Need help? About Shavonn V.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Author Bio: Jorden Anderson, MSW, MPA, GPC, is the founder of Jorden Anderson Consulting, a five-year-old consulting firm that has raised more than $30 million on behalf of its clients across the nation. Ghostwriting done well is invisible. But the impact? That speaks volumes.

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Author Bio: Melissa Benefiel, MS, GPC, is a seasoned grants management professional with over 20 years of experience in pre-award administration, compliance, and strategic partnerships across academic and nonprofit sectors. And, you are the vehicle for making this happen. Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 6, 2025

GPC Competency: #4 Knowledge of how to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application -04 Identify and cite accurate and appropriate data sources to support proposal narratives

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 27, 2025

Author Bio: Julie Assel, GPC, CGMS, is CEO of Assel Grant Services, a national consulting firm specializing in strategic grant research, proposal development, management, and training. GPC Competency: 5 – Knowledge of Post-Award to Inform Pre-Award

Award

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

She recently earned her Grant Professional Certification (GPC) and brings over a decade of nonprofit experience to her work. GPC Competencies: 4,5,8 Hannah is especially interested in building sustainable systems that reduce burnout and make grant writing more manageable for small teams and solo grant professionals.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In addition, this year’s conference provided great networking opportunities with 30 minutes between sessions, 90 minutes for lunch and networking, and opportunities to gather with specific related groups like my chapter and GPC colleagues. What advanced topics did you enjoy this year or would you like to see next year at GrantSummit?

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

GPC Competency: #3 Knowledge of strategies for effective program and project design and development. Authors Bio: Twenty years ago, Alex changed careers from college professor to nonprofit professional and never looked back.

Logic Model

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 3, 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.

GPC

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. Am I eligible to take the exam in 2025? Will I be ready to take the exam in 2025?

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

Author Bio: Meredith Burke Hammons, PhD, GPC is the founder of Burke Hammons Consulting, a professional grant services firm, and a trainer for GrantWriting USA with over 15 years of experience in grant development, training, and research. What else do you look for when evaluating funding opportunities?

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

GPC Competency: 5. Antonio Sosa-Pascual is the CEO of REOFTech, a company specializing in AI-driven solutions for R&D funding acquisition in advanced industries. Contact at asosa@reoftech.com. Knowledge of ethical practices related to grant acquisition and administration

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 1, 2025

Author Bio: Claire Honsinger, GPC is founder and principal consultant of Good Horse Grants, nonprofit funding advocacy and professional grant consulting. I developed the GNA this year, and LOVE how it is reducing the workload for my clients. How do you increase trust with funders?

Funding

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

GPC Competencies: #3 and #4 She started as a receptionist at a global nonprofit in her early college days, where she fell in love with the sector and consequently never left. Her career has since spanned K-12 education, performing arts, equity and diversity, community organizations, higher ed, and health care.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Author Bio: Veronica Kulon, MNM, GPC, is a dedicated grant consultant with Resurgens Impact Consulting in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with her youngest daughter, Mahalia, and her granddogter, Brownie. Let us share ideas and insights that help ensure we will all thrive in the year ahead!

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

GPC Competency: #9 How a strong program design transforms an initial idea into a persuasive, fundable case for support. With 25 years of nonprofit leadership and a talent for turning napkin ideas into funded programs, she believes every vision deserves a chance to bloom. Website: babetteallenconsulting.com.

Logic Model

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. Who Is Certified?

Grant Writing

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. GPC Competency #2, #3, and #4 You can be that leader. What characteristics have you observed in an effective leader who successfully guided a project team through a short-term initiative?

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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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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Author Bio: Jillain Veil-Ehnert, EdD, GPC, is the Director of Foundation Relations & Research Grants at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. Contact her at ehnert@cord.edu or via linked in [link] GPC Competencies: 1 & 2

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

GPC Competency: #2 She is the Director of Development for Bresee, and has comprehensive experience in events, fundraising, corporate and donor relationships, grant writing and management, volunteers, community engagement, programs, and communications. She currently serves on the GPA Board for the LA Chapter.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

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 Especially at the end of the year, taking time to hand write anything adds a little magic and shows your recipient they were worth the extra time and effort you put in.

Grant Management

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 17, 2025

www.vflynnconsulting.com GPC Competency: #2 Victoria creates capacity for clients while shifting focus away from practices that stress staff and toward systems that build resilience, confidence, and results.

Consultant

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

Outside of work, Lauren is pursuing her MBA and GPC certification while enjoying gardening, hiking with her family, and reading. An active member of the Grant Professionals Association, she is the Board President for the North Carolina Chapter and serves on the boards of the Grant Professionals Foundation and TRACTOR Food and Farms.

Grantschool

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 29, 2025

link] GPC Competency: 1: Researching, identifying, and matching funding resources to meet specific needs. Prior to starting Grants 4 Animals, Stephanie spent 20 years in education as an English teacher, junior high principal, and compliance director (which involved writing grants and policies).

Funding

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

GPA inspired me, as we celebrated GPC certifications, shared experiences, and discussed the challenges of daily work. The members open-handedness with service, support and knowledge created an atmosphere for professional growth, curiosity and peer community.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 18, 2025

Ricardo, GPC is a grant professional for the Winston-Salem Police Department in North Carolina. How do you embrace and balance your emotions to support your professional success? Author Bio: Rebekah L. She has been a GPA member since 2013 and established the North Carolina GPA Chapter, serving as the first president.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

GPC Competency 8: raise the level of professionalism of grant professionals, advance the profession, building relationships to benefit their communities and society at large

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Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 17, 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

JANUARY 28, 2025

GPC Competencies: #1 She presents at state and national conferences, and provided testimony about grants to the Maryland General Assembly, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

GrantZone – GPA offers a public forum where you as a member can post questions, respond to other posts, find GPC study sessions, connect to other chapter members, and keep abreast of changes in the field. If awarded, your scholarship will be in the form of a credit to GPCI for all or a portion of the GPC exam.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Foundations unique role as a 501(c)(3) organization is to help individuals receive valuable education through conference participation, grow through networking with peers, and demonstrate expertise by achieving the GPC credential. Key Details Applications will open starting January 2025; our committee will review them later.

Applicant

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

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

MARCH 10, 2024

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. In the meantime, learn more about organizational grant readiness and a variety of other topics with AGS online training sessions available on demand.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Insomnia Physical exhaustion Changes in eating habits Anxiety and depression Headaches and stomachaches If you are interested in grant services, training, or exploring how AGS can support overflow grant work, Julie Assel, CGMS, GPC, President/CEO , will be happy to talk with you about this and provide you with a quote for grant services.

Burnout

Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 28, 2024

If you are interested in grant services, training, or 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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