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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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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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

For example, a master GRANTS folder might have multiple folders within it, each labeled by the funder name. Then, each of those grant funder folders will have subfolders organized by year. Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Where one team members strength may be analyzing budgets or data, anothers strength may be relating to clients or community partners. This blog post is aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute s Competencies and Skills. Identify effective practices for key functions of grant management 6.03.

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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

JULY 21, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), an agency within the Executive Office of the President, issues government-wide grants-related guidance for federal departments and agencies and is responsible for the maintenance of this document. What is Uniform Guidance?

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As a result, evaluation costs fluctuate, and the conventional guidance to devote 10% of the program budget to evaluation isn’t always accurate, at least for federal grant programs. There are three primary factors that influence the evaluation budget: program, evaluation design, and reporting/dissemination.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 20, 2024

That makes it a grant. This process will likely include outlining a detailed budget, timeline, and measurable outcomes. Funders expect the organization to exactly follow the terms of the grant and submit regular reports that track how the money was used and qualify what results were achieved.

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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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Grant Consulting Services

JUNE 27, 2024

Just when you thought Grantegy: Don’t Leave Your Grants To Chance could not get any better, Grantegy has been accepted into the GPCI Accepted Education Program. CEUs towards acquiring the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) or maintaining your GPC certification when you complete all seven courses in the Grantegy program.

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

After reviewing your award letter or agreement: Make sure you and all staff or volunteers who will be working on the grant project understand the project goals and proposed implementation plans. Review the project budget and how your grant fits into that financial structure.

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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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Many workshop attendees admit that two days ago their boss told them to start looking for and writing grants because they needed money for their organization. Typically, the individuals writing and managing grants for your organization are not people with titles like grant administrator, grant manager, or director of grants.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the budget-strapped nonprofit world, staff are habitually expected to do the job of more than one person. According to Grant Station’s 2023 State of Grant Seeking report, 18% of respondents represented all-volunteer organizations or had only one employee doing the job of many. Let’s start with the negatives.

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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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