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Five Tips to Improve Your Grant Writing and Write Grants Better

Think and Ink Grants

If you are a grant writer aiming to advance your grant writing career or a nonprofit leader striving to sustain your organization, this guide is for you. Here are five actionable strategies to enhance your grant writing expertise today: 1. Its where I significantly advanced my own grant writing career.

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Where Else but GPA?

Grant Professionals Association

Each time a chapter member reached out to the group via email for experienced advice, I learned more about the craft of grant writing. GPA inspired me, as we celebrated GPC certifications, shared experiences, and discussed the challenges of daily work. Fundraising is about relationships, and so is GPA.

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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

Before AI, cloud-based platforms, and fancy grant management software, grant writing was a hands-on, paper-filled, finger-cramping journey. A great idea would emerge: a way to feed families, house veterans, mentor teen., That napkin? That’s the birthplace of some of the best nonprofit program designs.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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In fact, that fundamental training allows me still today to be independent and not to rely on office assistants, and it helps make grant writing a snap. I read about various subjects and shared my discoveries in a logical fashion, in writing. Q: What are the best grant writing courses? My mind was a sponge.

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YOU ARE INVITED!

Grant Professionals Association

From that initial recruitment conversation, a beautiful friendship developed with one of the most convincing and welcoming people I had the privilege to know, and who would become one of my mentors. I realized the GPC was an exam that seemed beyond a mere certificate stating I knew about grant writing. Get your GPC.

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Chapter Membership is for Everyone

Grant Professionals Association

By serving on a chapter board or committee, you can develop soft skills like public speaking, project management and event coordination, all while earning points toward credentials like the GPC. In return, you may enjoy discounts on chapter events as you rack up those all-important points toward your GPC credential or renewal.

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Go “Backwards” to Move Your Proposals Forward: Internal Grant Reviews

Grant Professionals Association

With each round of feedback, you're honing your grant writing skills, learning what works and what doesn't. Grant writing is not a solo sport. If you have served as a grant reviewer, how has it changed the way you develop proposals? Mastering the art of feedback can help make that happen.