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Invest in Your Future: Winning a Scholarship for Your Grant Professional Certification

Grant Professionals Association

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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Who for the Win! The Ripple Effect of Compassionate Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

As grant professionals, we have a responsibility to keep Who at the center of every proposal we write because they are the very reason grants even exist. By prioritizing Who in our proposals using compassionate grant writing like the second example, we help funding reach where its needed most, empowering people, not just institutions.

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Beyond the Award: Why Every Grant Professional Needs Post-Award Management Skills

Grant Professionals Association

In the grant profession, we often emphasize pre-award activities: identifying opportunities, crafting compelling narratives, and submitting competitive proposals. GPC Competency: 5 – Knowledge of Post-Award to Inform Pre-Award

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Winning unrestricted funding from general operating-averse funders: The Greatest Needs Approach

Grant Professionals Association

Using this model, organizations first assess their most pressing needs, rather than looking for a specific project for the proposal. From this list, organizations select their top three to five priorities and build proposals that include these “greatest needs”. Specificity is critical.

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Wrapping up 2024

Grant Professionals Association

Discern what you can from unfunded grant proposals and feedback from grant reviewers or program officers to determine areas of improvement. Training Plan Review the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI) competencies ( found here: Competencies Tested – GPCI ).

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​Choosing the right certification: a guide to grant writing credentials for professionals

Grant Professionals Association

Eleven percent of survey respondents reported being new to the field or GPA as the reason for not earning their GPC, while 7% were unaware of it and 11% lacked the time. 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.), Who Is Certified? The best path?

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How Can We Use Trying Times to Advance Our Careers –

Grant Professionals Association

GrantZone – GPA offers a public forum where you as a member can post questions, respond to other posts, find GPC study sessions, connect to other chapter members, and keep abreast of changes in the field. GPCI Scholarships – covers the cost of the test for individuals eligible to sit for the exam. The types of support available are: 1.

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