Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Grant writing is a vital skill for nonprofits, artists, and educators in Atlanta, aimed at securing funding to enhance community projects and initiatives. Whether you are a novice or looking to refine your skills, the art of crafting compelling grant proposals can make all the difference in funding your vision.

Grant Writing

Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Grantmakers love funding high-performing organizations. Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting. Shavonn earned the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) credential from the Grant Professionals Certification Institute in 2020 and is a Grant Professionals Association Approved Trainer.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 27, 2025

Over the last 20+ years, I have been privileged to help hundreds of organizations receive significant grant funding. But often it is the effective post-award management of these funds that builds credibility with funders and creates systems for even further growth. GPC Competency: 5 – Knowledge of Post-Award to Inform Pre-Award

Award

Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

The challenge lies in the evolving funding landscape. Why Winning Grants Will Be Tougher in 2025 A More Competitive Funding Environment With more organizations vying for the same pool of grants, funders are becoming increasingly selective. A well-thought-out plan is key to securing consistent funding.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

To expand their grant seeking, organizations often ask for more funding prospects but more doesnt always mean better. Funding history: Does the funder have a history of funding the same, specific geographic area? Does the funder have a history of funding organizations with similar missions?

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Most important is the rise of donor-advised funds (DAFs): Trend: In recent years, DAFs have proliferated and now represent a significant portion of philanthropic giving. Because tax regulations limit transparency requirements, however, funds in DAFs can remain unspent for years, impacting the flow of funds to active nonprofits.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 11, 2025

Remember when research meant a trip to the library, flipping through fat foundation directories, praying the funding source you found wasn’t from a different year? Digital research platforms give us up-to-date stats and funding sources at our fingertips. Technology supports every part of the process.

Logic Model

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

Will 2025 be the year you earn your Grant Professionals Certification (GPC)? The Grant Professionals Certification Institutes (GPCI) scholarship program seeks to assist qualified prospective GPCs with funds needed to sit for the exam. If you are uncertain, please take the eligibility quiz: The GPC Eligibility Quiz Survey.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2025

The pressure is on for stewardship of federal funds. Download M-24-11 (c) 2025 Karen Norris, Kanoco Consulting, LLC Have you heard of www.digital.gov and visited the digital community of grants? GPC Competencies: #1 To learn more about digital communities, visit [link]. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on outside funding to operate. This funding can come in the form of donations, federal dollars, private funders, gifts, fundraising events, and grants. Gone are the days when organizations could rely on private donations for consistent, sufficient funding. What does a full-time grant writer cost?

Consulting

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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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 22, 2024

Patient Grant Pro Answer: Dear Patient Grant Pro – Your challenge is one that we have heard from colleagues not just in the grant consulting space, but as employees as well. Maggie Perry, GPC The post I still have challenges with clients not getting information to me on time, resulting in some last-minute panic.

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Grant Professionals Association

DECEMBER 5, 2023

My options were: Should I resign from my full-time job as a nonprofit employee and start consulting full-time? After several months of reflecting on my values and goals, crunching numbers, watching every GPA consulting webinar available, and asking for guidance from trusted peers and family, I decided to take a risk and become a solopreneur.

Ethics

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Leonard, GPC, RST. The prior is a listing of all funding opportunities from the government – ever! It’s not a list of funding that’s currently open but shows funding that has been made in the past. Just a brief sampling includes two tools for prospect research: www.sam.gov and www.usaspending.gov.

Logic Model

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)? BIPOC, consultants, faith-based organizations) where you can ask questions and get to know fellow grant professionals.

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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.

GPC

Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

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. million PMP certification holders worldwide through the Professional Management Institute ; only a few also hold their GPC, including one AGS team member.

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Think and Ink Grants

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Schedule a complimentary consultation today: www.thinkandinkgrants.com About Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting. Shavonn also serves as President of the Grant Professionals Association.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

This can help an organization set a realistic goal for grant funding to be raised, identify additional capacity that will be needed, and develop plans for stretch goals. Determine how the data is to be used – do you need to track progress towards fundraising goals and individual capacity, or will it be used to evaluate individual performance?

Metrics

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We aimed to collect data about the number of funded proposals that had relationships compared to organizations that did not have a relationship when the proposal was submitted. The most commonly cited reason for denials was the lack of funding for all applicants. Some of the results were surprising! Author Bio: Valerie A.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 19, 2022

The same applies to seeking grant funding. The key takeaway here is for many nonprofits, especially those on a year-end fiscal year, the month of January will make or break your grant funding goals and set your organization up for the rest of the year. How does this apply to nonprofits? Every nonprofit has its own cyclical flow.

Goals

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. These are common scenarios, and while they may be new or unknown, taking steps to understand how grant funds should be managed is critical to the nonprofit’s success.

Grant Management

Grant Professionals Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Stories are often better at changing hearts, as well as a funding decision! Her broad background is the foundation for SFG Consulting Services LLC , working with human services and local municipalities. As a former capital campaign fundraiser, I intentionally craft messaging so an organization is not the story’s hero.

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Grant Consulting Services

JUNE 27, 2024

CEUs towards acquiring the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) or maintaining your GPC certification when you complete all seven courses in the Grantegy program. Grantegy is your comprehensive blueprint for crafting funding success. The post AEP Announcement – Grantegy first appeared on Grant Consulting Services, LLC.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 3, 2024

Of course, we also want the application to be funded. If you are working with a consultant, time spent on project management is billable. I want public and private acknowledgment (thank you note, social media post, office celebration, etc.) of all the work I do.” Here are some of the ways the team can support us toward those goals.

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Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). Best practices in grants management indicate an organization should follow the same processes for all grant funding, regardless of the source. How many employees are 100% grant-funded? Do you have employees who are allocated to multiple grants?

Grant Management

Assel Grant Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

finance staff, grant writers, program staff, consultants, and grant administrators). Best practices in grants management indicate an organization should follow the same processes for all grant funding, regardless of the source. The caveat here is potentially leaving funding on the table, especially if you manage federal grant awards.

Indirect Cost

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Throughout my career as a grant professional, I’ve found myself in work-related situations, with organizations, clients or otherwise, in a position of open collaboration when seeking funding for programs/projects that the entity leading would not otherwise be able to secure on their own. Please Limit: Guaranteeing funding.

Management

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 28, 2024

Securing funding is highly valuable, but being a grant professional often evokes one of the following responses while networking– a blank stare followed by “Oh,” or “I need a grant!”. The GPC remains the only nationally accredited credential for Grant Professionals globally! Learn more at www.grantsforcities.org GPC Competency #7

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Assel Grant Services

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Prospect research is the term commonly used for the process of identifying potential sources of funding for an organization or program. Attend local networking and events that foster relationships with service providers and your local funding community. Users should also click with caution to avoid false links and advertising scams.

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Think and Ink Grants

AUGUST 19, 2024

At Think and Ink Grant Consulting, we’ve developed a proven approach to winning federal grants across various agencies. Losing out on funding due to a single point is incredibly frustrating. Shavonn About Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC Shavonn is the Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting.

Federal Grants

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 20, 2024

”. 1: [link] 2: [link] 3: [link] Author Bio: John strives to make a difference by successfully connecting non-profits and funding opportunities. He’s self-taught and had early success in grant writing while working in communications and project consulting. GPC Competencies: #1, 8, 9

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 8, 2024

But newcomers may find it challenging to organize their process while seeking funding, crafting applications, and meeting deadlines. The presentation received acclaim for its potential use across diverse contexts—whether among a team of grant professionals or with solo consultants seeking to explain the grant process to clients.

Grant Manual

Assel Grant Services

MARCH 31, 2024

In addition, the team should understand the legal and ethical requirements for managing grants, which can vary based on the source and scope of funding. There are many types of funding sources from family foundations to federal agencies, innovation challenges and competitions to managed trusts.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

And while having an official grant writer on staff is not a prerequisite to receiving grant funds, it is difficult to juggle the rules and regulations, deadlines, and application requirements on top of your typical workday duties when you are fighting fires, shaping young minds, running programs, balancing the budget, or leading your community.

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Think and Ink Grants

MAY 19, 2022

Eat Your Dinner (and leave room for desert) Strategize how you would like to engage with your potential funding by building a relationship with a funder not just for the current RFP or funding cycle but future ones as well. Clean Your Room Reporting, lack of reporting, or mismanaging a grant is one of the fastest ways to lose funding.

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