Don't Let Grants Stress You Out
Can You Cure Writer’s Block? The short answer to that question is yes. I would say that most people would agree that writer’s block is the tornado to Dorothy’s house–and instead of sending us over the rainbow, we end up on YouTube for a couple hours. In my experience, this is not the solution. Forms of entertainment mostly lead to forms of procrastination that don’t…
Dear Experienced Grant Writer, I’ve recently been given the responsibilities of a Grant Writer as the nonprofit I am a part of. I just took a federal grant class and it felt like swimming upstream. There is so much information and I don’t even know what I don’t know about grants. I want to enter the grant seeking world with confidence but I feel…
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 be correct. You’ll find all these “what not to dos” and more in Fundraising HayDay’s latest installment of Ripped from the Headlines: Ripped from the Headlines: Grant Fraud Ain’t No…
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 you’ve earned your Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential? Your first multi-million-dollar grant award from the feds? When you make the transition to consultant? Or how about when you are a…
Whether you are first getting started with federal grants, or you have a few federal grant submissions (and maybe even awards!) under your belt, you may feel the pressure of the highly competitive process. The dollars at stake are huge and so are the impacts on your organization. As we’ve been designing Grant Writing Boot Camp in collaboration with MyFedTrainer.com, I put together a…
A Tale of Two Funding Types: Comparing Public and Private Funding It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens My high school career was a tale of two cities. As an army brat, I was used to moving every few…
Matt Hugg From Nonprofit Courses and Diane H. Leonard, GPC came together as fellow nonprofiteers to share some of their wisdom for those of us new to the nonprofit world as well as those who strive to keep learning. Funder Relationships: In their conversation, Diane mentioned the importance of the relationship with grantmakers. A like mindedness is apparent in the way Diane and…
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 to leave early or show up late to attend a function at my children’s school or care for them when they were sick. He was genuinely complimentary about the work…
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 content for a medical newsletter eventually led me to grant writing and fundraising—after a brief foray into corporate marketing and editing insurance reports. (No one ever has ever claimed that…
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 out two 3.5 to 4 mile walking routes through our neighborhood, and I walk one of them every morning. The more I walked, the more I saw. One morning a…