Shark Week’s thirtieth anniversary on the Discovery Channel was completed in 2018 from July 22-29. In 2016, I wrote about Shark Week and Serving on a Nonprofit Board. This year, I want to revisit Shark…
“What are its chances?” “Do you think it has a chance?” I was asked these questions recently at the end of an intense, compressed application process for a competitive state grant. Undoubtedly, these…
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…
School Safety Grants and our Souls: Where do we go from here? “Does it ever give thee pause, that people used to have a soul—not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech; but…
**Did you miss Part 1 of 2 for this post? You can catch up on Attachments Are Not an Afterthought (Part 1) here.** Last week we highlighted the importance of addressing required attachments as the…
Many grant applications require attachments in addition to the narrative and budget components. It can be easy to overlook addressing the attachments when faced with larger, more pressing tasks of developing a program and writing…
“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…
