Are you a grant professional who spends hours alone in front of your monitors weaving words, data, budget numbers, and a cornucopia of requested documentation into grant after grant, day after day? Or are you…
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Don’t Chase the Money: Do Your Grant Prospect Research
Picture this: Sicily. 1942. Just kidding, I do love me some Golden Girls, but this is a grant blog post. Let’s try again. Picture this: your boss hands you a federal grant proposal….
The Unicorn of Illinois: A Streamlined, State-Wide Grant System
In 2019 I attended my first National Grant Management Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. If federal grant management is one of your duties, then this is the conference for you. I submitted a workshop…
What Diets Taught Me About Collaborative Grants and Fundraising
I have struggled to maintain a healthy weight for years. My goals have nothing to do with the wasp-waisted curves filtered through Instagram posts. Keeping my body healthy for long-term is more my speed, and…
Budget Your Way to Winning More Grants
It is hard to admit when you’re wrong. See what I did there? YOU are not the problem in the difficult topic I want (not really) to discuss. I am. Or at least I was….
My Latest Grant Ethical Conundrum
A Louis Vuitton purse. An inflated salary and over-the-top office decor. Triple payment for the same work. What do these things have in common? If you guessed “lists of things no grant will fund”, you’d…
The More I Learn About Grants, The Less I Know
The More I Learn About Grants, The Less I Know At what point would you consider yourself an expert in the grant profession? Is it based on the number of years in the business? Once…
I Was Burned Out at Work, and I Didn’t Even Know It
For a long time, I had a job I loved. My boss was the best. He left me to do my job but gave assistance whenever I requested it. He always understood when I had…
Win More Grants by Writing Real Page Turners
Win More Grants by Writing Real Page Turners with Joshilyn Jackson I always knew I wanted to use words to do something good. Winding my way through feature writing for a city newspaper and creating…
Fundraising? Start in Your Own “Backyard”
After 11 months of the pandemic, I have learned to cultivate a deep appreciation of beauty around me, which wasn’t always apparent when I was rarely at home. In March, my husband and I mapped…