Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

Id like to say that learning the principles of grant management, professional development opportunities and fruitful networking sold me on GPA. Each time a chapter member reached out to the group via email for experienced advice, I learned more about the craft of grant writing. Instead, it was a holiday dinner.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

GSAs Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF) has identified more than 400 standard data elements for grants management alone. The GSA-managed website at [link] has established digital communities of best practices, including one for financial assistance. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

I let the group of 30 or more people know that my grant management job was ending and that I was open to work. At that meeting, a CEO of a local nonprofit approached me, conducted a brief interview, asked me to visit their offices, and shortly thereafter offered me a position as a coordinator of a grant program.

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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. In the nonprofit field, it’s common for staff to be put in a role where they manage grants but might not have the knowledge or resources to understand what that entails.

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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. As fundraising and grant professionals, we ask for money every day.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By now, I hope you are realizing grant management doesn’t have to be a scary web of confusing topics and rules. With this grant management series, I aim to outline some of the commonly seen issues and provide resources to learn more. NGMA divides the grant lifecycle into three phases: pre-award, award, and post-award.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

If you have ever flinched at the mention of policies and procedures, conflict of interest, or grant reporting, we may be able to help take the fear out of grant management. Too often, grant management is seen as scary and messy, with staff hesitant to learn because they may uncover more than they know how to handle.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Follow along with the small nonprofit blog series by subscribing for updates. In the meantime, learn more about organizational grant readiness and a variety of other topics with AGS online training sessions available on demand. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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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 ). Others find handwritten thank-you notes to be a disappearing art form.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I have been in chat rooms and webinars with people who are new to the grants profession and have been asked to stand up the grants management function for their organization. I spent many years as a successful grant professional and managed grants that were not from public sources. GPC Competency: 2 and 5

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. But, does QA/QI also have a place in a nonprofit organization’s successful grants management strategy? Two different kinds of experiences supported this author’s development as a grant professional. Townsel, S.M.,

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

Sessions are tailored to help participants build their knowledge and skills to create pathways to success for grant-seeking. 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

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 Award Grant Management and Compliance pathway is available now, with more in development.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

Below is an overview of professional credentials related to the grants profession and the requirements for obtaining them. 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. There are 1.4

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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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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 15, 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)? You could search the archived webinars or join a new Grant Zone community. GPC Competency: 7

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

By balancing the structured time, timelines, and requirements of grants with the relationship-building efforts needed for donations can help nonprofits secure reliable funding for their organization. You can find other blog posts in this series here. Identify various types of grants and their restrictions.

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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.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 21, 2024

In essence, this updated, reorganized, and consolidated federal grant management requirements into a single document. You may have heard various terms such as Uniform Grant Guidance (UGG), supercircular, omnicircular, or 2 CFR 200.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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 budgets, post-award management, and building relationships with funders. Identify various types of grants and their restrictions.

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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

JULY 6, 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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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Or, has your employment changed, and your new employer cannot pay for your Grant Professionals Association (GPA) membership? Do you have the goal of obtaining your GPC TM soon? If these are items on your “grant bucket list,” there is funding available to help cover the costs.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

In the ever-changing profession of grant writing, staying on top of new trends and practices is critical for continued success. This present blog piece provides tips on how best to tailor your selection of continuing education activities over the life course. grant-focused lens). Professional development is a journey not a race.

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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 #5: Knowledge of post-award grant management practices sufficient to inform effective grant design and development.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 8, 2023

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. Question: In what ways could you adopt project management principles and tools to make your grant workload a little lighter and more successful?

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

PLEASE SHARE : Have you identified a key sabotage vulnerability in your grants process? Author Bio: Bonnie Houk, GPC, Director of Grants Management, Southeast Kansas Education Service Center. She is a member in the Grants Professionals Association and treasurer for the GPA Appalachian Chapter.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Offering tools such as proposal templates, project management structures, project charters, and assisting in developing roles and responsibilities will assist an entity in a more successful grant process. Overcommunication is often best when working within the grants lifecycle. Communicate. Celebrate the wins.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 13, 2024

Author Bio : Eryn Baldrica-Guy (she/her) is the Director of Grants and Contracts for California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. She has specialized in fundraising and grants management for nonprofits since 2016. Eryn completed her master’s and bachelor’s degrees at California State University, Fresno.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

She has been involved with the nonprofit community and fundraising since the mid-90s and has nearly 30 years of experience as a professional fundraiser, grant writer, volunteer, board member, and leader. GPC Competencies: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 3, 2023

Her first experience with grants was at a rural nonprofit, and she then went on to work for a Native American Tribe, where her work was instrumental in raising more than $2 million in federal funding for projects ranging from housing development to environmental monitoring.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

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 several Evaluation Training topics! AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Casey Foundation, WT Grant Foundation, and Brady Education Foundation—will award restricted funds for program evaluation. 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 several Evaluation Training topics!

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 5, 2023

Siller's consultancy, Ascend Nonprofit & Business Solutions (NBS), helps nonprofits, government entities, schools, small businesses, and academicians improve their grant writing skills and secure funding for their missions. Competency #7: Knowledge of practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Author Bio: Dana Schuler Drummond is owner of Sharpshooter Communications, LLC, a nonprofit consulting firm, and founder of Grant Holster, a cloud-based grant management system. Dana was the first person in Oklahoma to earn dual certification as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and a Grant Professional Certified (GPC).

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In your downtime, peruse the Grant Professional Foundation’s Silent Auction. Funds raised will help the Grant Professional Foundation award scholarships to grant professionals attending GrantSummit, joining GPA, and getting their GPC credential. Get your bids in by 4:15 p.m. on Friday, November 3 rd !

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Question: Where are your grant administrative processes today? Can others see through your Grants Administration? Harrington, GPC has more than 25 years of experience as a Grants Professional, writing and administering Federal State and Foundation grants. 2021) Federal Grants Management: Improving Transparency.

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