I was talking on the phone with another grant professional recently that I had just met. In the course of the conversation, she shared with pride that the Executive Director of her organization knew she…
Dear New Grant Writer, Welcome to the field of grant seeking! You may be wondering what you got yourself into as you accepted this new job, or perhaps this new assignment as part of…
You may wonder what do grants, bequests, direct mail appeals, monthly donor campaigns, and social media outreach all have in common, and the answer is storytelling. I was honored to be a part of the…
It is that time of year…conference season! I have the pleasure and honor of speaking/presenting/teaching at 8 different events around the country this fall talking about my favorite topic…grant writing and best practices in our…
Are you new to grant writing? Are you considering a career as a grant professional? Are you a board member interested in learning more about grants so that you can help your organization? I wanted…
Grant Writer (#LifeasaGrantWriter) versus Grant Pro or Grant Professional (#LifeasaGrantPro)…what is the difference you might ask? Both are chronicling the daily office lives and downtime/self-care of grant writers and grant professionals. It comes back to…
When you are out and about on life adventures or even day to day excursions, there are often relatable lessons to our professional work – in the case of zip lining with friends, I walked…
We are a few days past the halfway mark for the calendar year, so I stopped to assess some of the metrics our team looks at when doing planning for the next quarter compared to…
“How much time does it take to write a grant?” is one of the most common questions asked by those new to the field of grant seeking, by board members new to working with grant-funded…
You asked, we answered…after having 1,700+ (woah!!) people register for the free webinar on storytelling in grants that I did last week in partnership with Foundant and their GrantHub product last week, I wanted to answer…
