Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the last few weeks of the year, ensure your final 2024 submissions are on time, needed funds are requested, and reports are in order. How did your team respond to changes in the grant profession, such as the new Uniform Guidance for federal funds? Reach out to your funders with holiday greetings and updates on your programming.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 23, 2025

I work for county government law enforcement which limits me to only federal and state funding opportunities. GPCI Competency #7: Knowledge of practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers. I certainly did and I felt clueless, overwhelmed and lost without any map for direction.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 24, 2025

This is the boat I am in; I wrote grants for a decade before GPCI first offered certifications in 2008 (GPA of Lower Hudson, n.d.), Grant Professional Certification Institute The GPCI administers the nationally recognized GPC credential to grant professionals. so I never got around to it. But that's about to change (keep reading!).

Grant Writing

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.

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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. Grant Cosulting Services LLC went through a stringent application process with GPCI® to ensure that Grantegy is aligned with the industry-accepted grant Competencies and Skills.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

I was relieved, but nervous, as I wanted to be a good steward of the funds that had been given to me. GPC Exam Scholarships exist to give grant professionals the opportunity to apply for funds to receive a nationally recognized credential to help elevate themselves and the grants profession. You never know what will happen next.

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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!”. GPCI regularly conducts job analyses to maintain accreditation, which would benefit from the Bureau of Labor Statistics professional code data.

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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? If these are items on your “grant bucket list,” there is funding available to help cover the costs. In 2023, GPCI presented three CMP awards and 11 GPC TM Exam scholarships to recipients.

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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. I’m forever grateful.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

The CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive), CGMS (Certified Grants Management Specialist), and other credentialing are also important for demonstrating The trick is fitting these professional endeavors into our busy lives. This is not the only designation that aids in professional advancement. grant-focused lens).

Education

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

The GPC credential signals precisely the expertise and ethical rigor employees need when managing grant funding. This produces higher quality grant applications and ensures funded projects are more effectively managed while reducing risk and fraud.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Grant Ethics: The Ethics of Program Implementation and Reporting After a Grant is Funded Session 7 of the Ethics Series While ethics must be considered in all stages of the grant lifecycle, the part that most people worry about is program implementation and reporting. Full participation in this training is also applicable for 1.0

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Participants will learn: Best practices for ethical marketing Best practices for communication to avoid ethical issues before work begins Best practices for compensation What the codes do and don’t say about working for more than one client Enroll Now GPCI Competencies and Skills: 5.9, points in Category 1.B

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The focus of most organizations is getting grant funding in the door. New (and don’t forget about the renewal) funding is attractive and necessary. Review the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Many people might say they review the NOFO at the beginning, but are you looking at all that is needed? GPCI Competency: 05.

Award

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

Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 19, 2023

GPCI Competencies and Skills: 1.1, This session will also cover the core elements of VA grant applications and how to respond competitively to them based on the agency’s mission, priorities, and core principles. CFRE Domains and Tasks: 1.1, Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

GPCI Competencies and Skills: 1.1, This session will also cover the core elements of ACF grant applications and how to respond competitively to them based on the agency’s mission, priorities, and core principles. CFRE Domains and Tasks: 1.1, Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

Federal Grants

Assel Grant Services

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

GPCI Competencies and Skills: 1.1, This session will also cover the core elements of NEA grant applications and how to respond competitively to them based on the agency’s mission, priorities, and core principles. CFRE Domains and Tasks: 1.1, Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

Federal Grants

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.

Grant Management

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. GPCI Competency: 2, 3 Cooperation brings numerous benefits to communities, organizations, and people served.

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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

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Does the source of the grant funding align with the organization’s values or are they only looking at the amount of money that can be awarded? Is the funding opportunity really a good match for the organization or is the organization just sending out grant applications to anyone with funding? points in Category 1.B

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Enroll Now GPCI Competencies and Skills: 6, 7.2 Length: 60 minutes Price: $50 Grant Ethics Training Series So often ethics about grants are focused on the mismanagement of grant funding which gets flashy headlines in the news. This training will include an overview of each, the areas they have in common, and how they are different.

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Yet, in an area of online grant applications, questions abound regarding how to still maintain the strongest ethical course while providing the most persuasive answer to why a funder should choose a particular agency and project to fund. Join us for a lively debate on these issues faced by those who write grants regularly.

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Grant Ethics: Creating Ethical Grant Budgets and Sustainability Plans Session 6 of the Ethics Series For many organizations, a federal grant will be a significant expansion to an existing program or the initial funding for a program that does not yet exist. This can make the creation of grant budgets a very speculative process. 4.10, 6.3,

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.

Grant

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Alignment to the mission of the organization and its strategic plan versus chasing funding can lead to ethical questions. Creating a quality partnership requires trust, but often partnering in a grant together breeds distrust due to each organization fearing they are losing out on funding they could be receiving. points in Category 1.B

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Grant Ethics: The Ethics of Program Implementation and Reporting After a Grant is Funded Session 7 of the Ethics Series While ethics must be considered in all stages of the grant lifecycle, the part that most people worry about is program implementation and reporting. Full participation in this training is also applicable for 1.0

Ethics

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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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What you will learn: When applying to foundations to whom you are not well aligned is a problem How connections between nonprofits and funders can give the appearance of a conflict The difference between conflict of interest and the appearance of conflict of interest Enroll Now GPCI Competencies and Skills: 1.7, points in Category 1.B

Ethics

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.

Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 18, 2023

It is no surprise that with all the fast-moving federal funding that has been distributed over the past few years, those who receive federal awards may not be aware of all of the rules pertaining to award management. What internal controls are in place for the organization to ensure it will be a good steward of federal funding?

Procurement

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The non-profit world is struggling as it emerges from the pandemic and funding programs and projects become more competitive. GPCI Competency: 6, 7 Currently, the Learn and Grow series is a wonderful resource to enhance my practical experience, particularly in helping non-profit leaders understand what it takes to be grant-ready.

Ethics

Assel Grant Services

JUNE 16, 2024

GPCI Competencies AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Competency #8: Knowledge of methods and strategies that cultivate and maintain relationships between fund-seeking and recipient organizations and funders.

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Assel Grant Services

JUNE 24, 2024

GPCI Competencies AGS blogs, funding alerts, and trainings are aligned with the Grant Professional Certification Institute ’s Competencies and Skills. Competency #7: Knowledge of practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers Also published on the Grant Professionals Association BLOG page.

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