Don't Let Grants Stress You Out
The sun is shining, the temperatures are soaring, school is out for the summer, and grant professionals across the country are carefully analyzing their grant calendars to see how or if they need to modify their vacation plans. Sound familiar? In New York, the Consolidated Funding Application deadlines have been a summer deadline each of the past four years. This year, with a July 29th…
I recently served on my first state grant review panel. It was for large, multi-year operating support to arts organizations (orgs). The orgs varied in annual revenue of $200,000 to over $50 mil. The experience was inspiring and exhausting. I found joy in reading about arts orgs doing amazing creative work. I faced fatigue as I read long narratives, multiple financial sheets, audit reports, Cultural…
**Note from Diane: I am excited to welcome Jasmine Markanday as an author and subcontractor for the DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services team. She is a grant budget guru! Planning is an essential part of grant seeking, grant writing, and submitting proposals. Grant writers often work on deadlines–be it for a letter of intent, submitting proposals, and submitting reports. You need to write…
**Note from Diane: I would like to welcome Zoe Garvin, one of our new subcontractors, to our blog as an author. You will begin to see pieces from Zoe each quarter about her work and experiences. To let everyone get a chance to know Zoe, we are continuing with our series of “Grant Funding in Action” where each member of the DH Leonard Consulting team…
Why Serving as a Federal Grant Reviewer Is One of the Best Career Moves You Can Make Ever wondered how to find federal grant review opportunities? As discussed in Ten Tips I Learned From Being a Federal Grant Reviewer and explored in depth in our post on the Benefits of Serving as a Grant Reviewer, serving as a reviewer is one of the most valuable…
One of the questions that comes up most often when teaching grant writing workshops is: “How many of you have a grant team, either formal or informal?” Typically, far less than half of the hands go up. Then comes the follow-up: “How many of you feel like a grant team of one?” — and the rest of the hands go up. Grant professionals can secure…
(*Note: Yes, that is a picture of me, in the pink headband on the right, immediately after the race with a dear friend who ran with me to celebrate the five year anniversary of my Achilles rupture. Back to normal professional headshot style pictures after this, but the analogy didn’t feel as solid to share with you without the real post-race picture.) There are so…
*Note from Diane: The flexibility that can come with the life of a consultant can be wonderful, but can also present unique challenges. Julie offers us a great, honest perspective on those challenges in her latest blog post to give insight for potential consultants and camaraderie of experience to fellow consultants. I would imagine that for employed grant writers, many have also faced similar work…
Last Friday was International Grant Professional’s Day as the capstone for International Grant Professional’s Week. It was a fantastic week as there is so much to celebrate and be excited within the grant profession! In fact, I’m still in a celebratory mood, and that celebratory mood has me pondering how it is that we celebrate our work as grant professionals, and *when* we celebrate with our…
**Note from Diane: We are so pleased to have Dr. Judy Riffle back as a guest blogger again this week. Judy is the owner of Santa Cruz Grants & Consulting, LLC. No Weaknesses Noted: The Benefits of Serving Since 2012, I have served on six federal grant review committees. Every time, I learn something different; it is one of the best forms of professional development…