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The Professionalization of Grants: Scaling Your Grants Program Through Effective Infrastructure

Grant Professionals Association

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. Understanding how your organization makes grant submission decisions is critical. What is the current post-award process?

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Where Else but GPA?

Grant Professionals Association

Id like to say that learning the principles of grant management, professional development opportunities and fruitful networking sold me on GPA. I learned that grant professionals work in various environments as employees, contractors and business owners. Instead, it was a holiday dinner.

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Go from Rejected to Accepted: 9 Reasons Your Grants Get Rejected (and How to Fix Them) w/ Teresa Huff | Instrumentl

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Make sure you're really writing as tightly as possible, but I have a blog post here where I have it side by side. Essentially Teresa has a grant readiness audit that is gonna be really useful when assessing stacking yourself up to these respective mistakes that we've talked about today. I always say right tight.

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Step Up Your Systems for Success: How to Simplify, Streamline and Support Your Team w/ Teresa Huff | Instrumentl

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 Will: I can say that in general, what I actually tell folks is to not, what generally we tell folks is if you're looking for startup grants, it's better to actually stabilize your nonprofit before you pursue grants. Being grant-ready is really important. Find and win more grants for your nonprofit!

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I Signed up for What?! A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness

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Ensure Program Sustainability With a focus on the grant management, it can be easy to lose sight of how the program will continue. Want more information on creating a plan of action for your organization to manage your federal grants? A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness.

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Organizational Development in Becoming Grant-Ready

Grant Professionals Association

Organizational development plays a crucial role in the process of becoming grant-ready by providing the foundation and framework necessary to effectively pursue and manage grant funding. It provides the essential infrastructure, capabilities, and processes needed to become [and stay] grant-ready.

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Standing Up a New Grants Management Function

Grant Professionals Association

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.