Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

And How Can What GPA Offers Us as Members Help Us Meet Our Goals The pause in federal funding and other Executive Orders have brought up uncertainties that may make many of us anxious and unsure. I was asked to come interview for a contract position funded by a federal flow-through grant to the state. Connections matter.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) was established in January 2006 to ensure resources are available to educate, credential, and assist grant professionals who secure the funding necessary for not-for-profits to serve the greater good. Key Details Applications will open starting January 2025; our committee will review them later.

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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. My fellow chapter members told me about the GPC scholarship and said I should apply.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential is based on competencies and skills that directly reflect the real-world requirements of grant writing and management. The GPC credential signals precisely the expertise and ethical rigor employees need when managing grant funding.

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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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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 19, 2024

They needed “things”, and we lacked the funding support to provide them. Professional Development: The pinnacle of my grants career came in 2017 when I became credentialed as a GPC through the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI). Every year, I discover new ways to volunteer for GPA and GPCI.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Have you ever wanted to attend the GrantSummit, but your organization needed more funding to support you? 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. This is where the Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) can help.

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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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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

Lifelong learning helps me to stand out in a pool of applicants, for instance, showing potential employers that I have obtained my GPC (Grant Professionals Certified), the nation’s only accredited grant credential. This is not the only designation that aids in professional advancement. Or apply for a scholarship or grant for yourself!)

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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 Advancing Knowledge: Knowing your “Why” by Kellie Brungard, GPC first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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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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Assel Grant Services

JULY 28, 2024

In 2002, I was managing a grant-funded violence prevention program at a small-ish nonprofit organization in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Instead of admonishing me for my inexperience and poor attitude, she invited me into her space and showed me the grant that funded my program. I have program tasks and schools to visit!”

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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.

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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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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

QA/QI is also a criterion funders often use in reviewing and selecting grant application requests to fund. Quality Improvement Tips Many government and private grant funding agencies have “grant competitions” that repeat either annually, biennially, or another periodicity schedule. Post-funding decision debriefings.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

A few years back, our agency was applying for a couple of multi-year, several million dollars’ worth of funding from the state department. While it worked out and both projects were funded, it was the beginning of some internal changes in how grant collaborations are conducted. Bonnie shares a great example of external sabotage.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 5, 2024

Author Bio: Amanda Faye Lipsey, MFA, GPC, is a skilled grants professional, health researcher, and patient advocate with more than 20 years of experience in fund development and communications. She is also an approved trainer by the Grant Professional Certificate Institute (GPCI).

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

The proposal in all of its elements speaks to power (the funder) on behalf of the people or animals the organization serves, and funds are sought to drive positive change on some level, whether individual, community, or system wide. GPCI Competencies : #7, #8, and #9 She is a GPA-approved trainer and registered Scrum Master.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 25, 2024

You might pursue a partnership with a subcontractor or subrecipient related to a specific funding opportunity. Author Bio: Kristin Raack, CFRE, GPC has been a grant and fund development professional for 25 years. Author Bio: Kristin Raack, CFRE, GPC has been a grant and fund development professional for 25 years.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 9, 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. GPC, CFRE first appeared on Assel Grant Services.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The non-profit world is struggling as it emerges from the pandemic and funding programs and projects become more competitive. The community found within GPA is the best benefit of my membership and I look forward to earning the GPC designation in the future. GPCI Competency: 6, 7 Author Bio: Anna Marie Campbell, Ph.D.,

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

I had an exceptionally knowledgeable mentor who ran an office engaged in multiple types of fundraising activities: endowment (major gifts), special project fundraising (grant writing), annual fund (with a corporate slant), membership, database administration, special events, and volunteer management.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Funds raised will help the Grant Professional Foundation award scholarships to grant professionals attending GrantSummit, joining GPA, and getting their GPC credential. GPA provides a continuing education tracker for GPCI and CFRE-approved courses. In your downtime, peruse the Grant Professional Foundation’s Silent Auction.

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