Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If you are a grant writer aiming to advance your grant writing career or a nonprofit leader striving to sustain your organization, this guide is for you. Here are five actionable strategies to enhance your grant writing expertise today: 1. Its where I significantly advanced my own grant writing career.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

With daily tasks and obligations piling up, it can be hard to carve out time to stay up to date within the grants profession. Grant professionals must adopt the forever a scholar mindset or risk falling behind[a][b]. If you have 60 minutes or more: Read a book or research your favorite topic! Read a longer research article!

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Fundraising HayDay

MARCH 6, 2025

Language is especially important when you serve as grant and/or fundraising professionals who use the written word to explain to funders the needs, successes, and goals of the communities we serve. It is vital we use inclusive language no matter who we are talking about.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

In 2020, three grant professionals ( Bachman, Planton, and Rodgers) set out to identify the prevalence of burnout among the grant profession. It’s a new year, and grant professionals constantly see an upcoming deadline, a great new opportunity, or a need to raise more money. And that “the flow of work never stops.”

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Starting around age 10 you would always find me with a Nancy Drew, Babysitter’s Club, or Sweet Valley High book in progress. Because these days reading comes in many forms: books, e-readers, and audio. For grant professionals, reading plays such a vital role in our work. As grant professionals, we write. We tell stories.

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Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I taught for a short time, completed a Master’s degree, some life happened, and the next thing I knew I was a Grants Coordinator for a large school district. A little over 20 years later I was asked to teach an undergraduate grant writing class at my alma mater. What else can we do to grow the next generation of grant professionals?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As grant professionals, we’re constantly focused on deadlines, applications, and making a difference for the causes we care about. Our team has had an ongoing focus on overall wellness, mental health, and mindfulness, given that our work as grant professionals is very sedentary and has a high rate of burnout. – Megan Martin.

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