Recently at the GPA national conference, I was sitting with a group of friends and one made a pun about the grant profession. We all laughed, and the joke-teller said, “Isn’t it nice to be with people who get puns like this?” Yes, it is. You know you are a grant writer when . . . You drink an enormous amount of coffee You…
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Grants in Action: Student Success Center
Written by: Julie Boll, GPC
I recently had the opportunity to attend a brand launch for Quincy University. A team of highly regarded marketers spent six months researching our University, and interviewed over 100 members of our community, to identify core truths about our University they could use to build an authentic brand. They told us one of the truths they identified in their research is a culture of support…
How Have You Improved Your Grant Development in 2017?
Written by: Bethany Planton, GPC
In January, I challenged you to set a few goals for 2017 that could become healthy habits, professionally or personally or both. For 2017, my professional goals were to expand my own consulting business and continue my professional development. And I did that. This year I attended several webinars, co-presented a webinar, participated in #Grantchat, attended GPA Kentucky Chapter events, and attended and lead a…
Feeling Gratitude
Written by: Jasmine Markanday
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” – William Arthur Ward Isn’t that the truth?? This quote hits me very hard and reminds me that cultivating funder relationships is the essential ingredient for successful grant programs. As a grantor and a grantee, we share the same objective of creating, implementing, and managing a project that…
Gratitude is a Verb
Written by: Nicole Sibiliski, GPC
Note from Diane: We hope you are enjoying our series about being #Grateful for #Grants as much as we are enjoying writing the pieces for you! Have you missed one of the earlier posts? Check out Defining Grantitude by Amy Bonn and How Does Your Nonprofit Score on Grantitude? and Bethany Turner, GPC. Let’s talk about gratitude. Every non-profit has that form letter, the one that…
How Does Your Nonprofit Score on Grantitude?
Written by: Bethany Planton, GPC
As we are in the month of Thanksgiving, it is a great time to focus on grantitude and how we can incorporate it into our nonprofits. I think we probably can all agree that we need to have grantitude, but we don’t always know how to implement it. So, how does your nonprofit score on grantitude (Catch up here if you missed Amy Bonn’s post…
Defining Grantitude
Written by: Amy Bonn
Grantitude Grantitude is a term that’s been coined by the grant writing community. There are a few different definitions floating around out there (check out #grantchat’s definition here, or SNF Writing Services definition here) but for this blog, I’m using the following: Grant-it-ude /noun/ a way of acknowledging or appreciating a generous funding given to an organization. “She felt a deep sense of grantitude when…
Taking Time to Celebrate: A Favorite Grant Success
Written by: Jane Nelson
This is our final of four posts about grant success and rejection. How to celebrate, learn and grow from both. If you missed the previous posts, you can catch up on Celebrating Grant Success by Briana Popek (here), When a Win Looks Like a Win by Nicole Sibilski, GPC (here), or Handling a Grant Rejection (here). One of my favorite grant success stories was…
Handling a Grant Rejection
Written by: Julie Boll, GPC
Today’s post from guest blogger, Julie Boll, GPC is the continuation in a series about grant wins and rejections, and how to celebrate and learn from both. If you missed the first two posts, you can catch up on Celebrating Grant Success by Briana Popek (here) and When a Win Looks Like a Win by Nicole Sibilski, GPC (here). We wish we could fund all…
When a Win Looks Like a Loss
Written by: Nicole Sibiliski, GPC
*Note from Diane: Today’s post from Nicole is the second in our series talking about grant seeking success. Did you miss Briana’s post Celebrating Grant Success from last week? Catch up here. When it comes to grants, it seems that “success” and “failure” is a binary distinction. Winning the money equates success. Not winning the money equates failure. Seems simple enough. It isn’t. With…