The grant process starts and ends with grant readiness. When I first started in this career, I thought that grant readiness was something that one accomplished. As though one day I would be able to make that final checkmark on a list and…

The grant process begins well before you write the first word of the grant proposal. There are five major components to grant work that, ideally, are completed in this order:

1. Grant Readiness

2. Finding Grant Opportunities

3. Cultivate the Relationship

4. Apply/Re-Apply

5. Manage Award

If you’ve ever talked with me about grants, you will notice that I rarely use the expression “grant writing”. I most often refer to professionals in the field as doing “grant work”. That is because there is so much more to grants than just the writing…

The nonprofit sector, like much of the country, has been in a seemingly endless panic state since Inauguration Day. There has been an unprecedented series of presidential decisions that have devastating consequences…