Don't Let Grants Stress You Out
Note from Diane: We each take a different path into our work as first grant writers and then grant professionals. Understanding how other professionals approach their professional development is a great way to get ideas to help expand and enhance your own approach to professional development. I am thrilled to add Jane Nelson’s perspective to our conversation. My professional development in the grants field…
Grant writing is not easy; it’s not *just* about finding a grant, writing, submitting, and then repeating. Rather, the grants profession is very competitive. While there are many funders supporting a wide variety of fields of interest; they often care about certain geographic areas (i.e. – one city, one state), and often only provide certain types of funding (i.e. – capital, programmatic).
What is GuideStar? GuideStar is the premier hub for information on nonprofit organizations. GuideStar’s mission is “to revolutionize philanthropy by providing information that advances transparency, enables users to make better decisions, and encourages charitable giving.” GuideStar gathers and disseminates information to grantmakers, donors, and potential supporters so they can easily use the information learn more about your nonprofit and make better decisions. GuideStar wants to…
Note from Diane: We’re so pleased to have another perspective for you from one of our team members about what Grant Funding in Action looks like, or in hashtag speak, how #grantswork. We’d love to hear your stories too! Send them to us so your stories can be featured here! What’s your bottom line when it comes to writing for, or allocating, grants? Is…
Every established nonprofit was once a fledgling organization, founded by an eager individual with a 501c3 determination letter in hand and a passion to serve their community or change the world. Does this sound like you? First, thank you – we are grateful to people who are willing to roll up their sleeves to tackle problems, and who create and innovate to improve quality of…
Is there a grant for this? Isn’t there a grant for that? I’m *SURE* there are grants for this! Let’s get a grant to pay for this! Sound familiar? As we have been talking about the different elements capacity related to grant professionals and grant seeking strategies the past few posts (check them out here if you missed any!), these frequent questions we are asked…
Note from Diane: As we continue with our capacity theme, today’s post from Bethany is perfect! There are many times that we as grant professionals ask ourselves how to juggle or how to make sure limits are in place for juggling multiple grant deadlines. More often than not I am balancing more than one grant application deadline at a time with each client and between…
Whether you are an employee or a consultant, you likely feel like you are balancing your personal and professional commitments on a daily basis. Then summer rolls around, and the balancing act for your capacity professionally and the desire for some sun-filled self-care and unplugged time often comes to a head. How many of you have scheduled your vacation around a large grant maker’s deadline that…
One of the most common questions asked by those new to the field of grant writing is: “How many grant proposals can one grant professional write in a year?” It is a reasonable question, and also a genuinely complex one. The short answer is: it depends. But what does it depend on? Quite a lot, actually. Note: If you are a freelance grant consultant…
Note from Diane: We often get asked, how many grants can one grant professional write in a year? Or how do you best balance multiple deadlines? We are beginning a short series looking at grant professional capacity both from the consultant and employee point of view. Have a specific capacity question you want addressed? Drop me an email (diane@dhleonardconsulting.com) and we’ll do our best to…