Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2025

GPCI Scholarships – covers the cost of the test for individuals eligible to sit for the exam. If awarded, your scholarship will be in the form of a credit to GPCI for all or a portion of the GPC exam. She has coordinated proposal development processes, bringing in over $165 million to the greater Houston area.

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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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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Grant Ethics: Ethics for Grant Proposal Need Statements Session 4 of the Grant Ethics Series The way grant professionals describe the needs of their community is an important part of persuading reviewers and grant funders to award a grant. Which need is greatest and most aligned to the funders’ priorities?

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Grant professionals cannot successfully and ethically develop grant proposals and applications without learning “tricks of the trade.” The best way to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for creating competitive proposals is to attend workshops and webinars presented by seasoned professionals.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

As we strive to create high-quality, competitive grant proposals for the organizations we serve, grant professionals are engaged in advocacy for their missions and communities with funders. GPCI Competencies : #7, #8, and #9 She is a GPA-approved trainer and registered Scrum Master.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 5, 2024

Often, however, we find ourselves navigating tenuous ethical conflict when leaders and/or members of our teams propose organizational strategies or actions that would violate the Code of Ethics. She is also an approved trainer by the Grant Professional Certificate Institute (GPCI). Thank you so much for educating me!”

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Grant seeking, proposal development, and post-award management can fill some professionals with dread. Often, if funding is extremely needed, some entities can be more reserved around submitting collaborative grant proposals. Funders can sniff out desperation in a proposal. Limiting grant involvement. Tips: Provide tools.

Management

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 27, 2024

Early career experiences supporting corporate responses to competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) opportunities for business contracts provided insights into how to read, understand, and respond to RFPs. Later service as an external reviewer for government agency grant programs provided further insights into grant proposal best practices.

Grant Management

Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Whether your organization is challenged with following through with what they said they would do in the proposal narrative or spending the grant dollars as written in the budget, this session is for you!

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 25, 2024

However, the process of building appropriate alliances and collaborating on grant proposals can seem intimidating or even risky. As grant professionals, shouldn’t we be exploring collaborations before submitting grant proposals? Prominently feature your strategic alliances in your grant proposals. GPCI Competency: 2, 3

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Ethics: The Ethics of Program Design: Plans and Partners Session 5 of the Ethics Series Creating a high-quality grant proposal can be challenging when organizations may also be designing the program at the same time. Alignment to the mission of the organization and its strategic plan versus chasing funding can lead to ethical questions.

Ethics

Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

Despite our best efforts and knowledge, sometimes sabotage can sneak in to derail progress on a project or proposal. This changed the language in other sections we had spent the previous week working on to align throughout the proposal. Bonnie previously served as a member of the GPA and GPCI Board of Directors.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Whether your organization is challenged with following through with what they said they would do in the proposal narrative or spending the grant dollars as written in the budget, this session is for you!

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

A clear presentation of the facts and the argument in favor of support–and a well-targeted grant proposal that fits with the funder’s area(s) of interest–is often best. If you do like GPA and you join, you should investigate the Grant Professionals Certification Institute (GPCI). You will need to be flexible and patient.

Grant Writing

Assel Grant Services

APRIL 29, 2024

Project Management Professional (PMP) Project management is another key skill for navigating multiple deadlines, facilitating teams in program design, and preparing collaborative proposals. There are 1.4 The PMP acknowledges professionals skilled at managing people, processes, and business priorities of professional projects.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 18, 2023

While I am simplifying things here, the point is that each of the thresholds requires a different type of acquisition process whether it is a request for proposals (RFP) or review of quotes, or no review at all. GPCI Competency(ies): 05. Author Bio: Rachel Werner (@RBWStrategy) is the Owner and CEO of RBW Strategy, LLC.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tracks include consulting, evaluation and collaboration, federal grants, grants management and budgets, proposal development and communications strategies, and prospect research and donor relations. GPA provides a continuing education tracker for GPCI and CFRE-approved courses.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

Be sure to note these limits and factor them into your proposed budget. GPCI Competency 4: Crafting, constructing, and submitting an effective grant application Watch out for caps: Salaries, fringe benefits, indirect costs, and other categories can be subject to maximums set by the funder.

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