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Building Funder Relationships

https://grantchat.org/2019/03/building-funder-relationships/

How can we build stronger relationships with funders? How can funders develop applications and programs that help the grantee to achieve thier goals and make a greater impact? I have been working with the National Center for Healthy Housing for many years. In the past few years, we started%

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Virtual Teams for Grant Success

https://grantchat.org/2019/03/virtual-teams-for-grant-success/

Developing a grant application or managing a grant project will likely involve partners or co-workers that are off-site. For many grant consultants, we work from our home offices and or a shared consulting space. We work where from where we live and can serve communities beyond our own backyard%

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Why Grant Applications Fail

https://grantchat.org/2019/03/why-grant-applications-fail/

An average of 12% of grant applications become ‘winners.’ Does that mean that grant professionals and grant seeking organizations are wasting nearly 90% of their grant-seeking efforts? Our answer is a resounding ‘no.’ As grant professionals, we are continually building our skills, competencies, a%

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Building Your Network

https://grantchat.org/2019/02/building-your-network/

Building Your Network for Grant and Career Success Building your networks is one of the most effective things you can do to advance your career, grow your knowledge, challenge your comfort zones, and have the support and safety net you need when things don’t go as planned. This week on G%

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Getting Started in Grants: What They Don't Tell You

https://grantchat.org/2019/02/getting-started-in-grants-what-they-dont-tell-you/

This week we are chatting about getting started in grants and what we wish someone has shared with us early on in our grant writing and development roles. We are moving the GrantChat question posts to our Smarte Learning Institute site. To help our GrantChat community and others find the chat%

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Tools to Supercharge Your Grant Success

https://grantchat.org/2019/02/tools-to-supercharge-your-grant-success/

Tools that support grant success are an investment of our time and resources. Today's grant professionals feel the demand to be more tech savvy. Tech tools can help the grant professional work more efficiently, collaboratively, securely, and effectively. This week on GrantChat, we're discussing%

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WWYD Ethical Dilemmas

https://grantchat.org/2019/01/grant-ethics/

Professional dilemmas and ethical issues, we face them almost every day when we are working with grants. As I often say, my job as a grant professional isn't necessarily to bring a ton of money into an organization. My job as a grant professional is to reduce the organization's risk in securing%

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Best-Fit Funder

https://grantchat.org/2019/01/best-fit-funder/

Identifying the best funder for your organization, project, capital campaign, or partnership isn't easy, but it is so important. Finding the funder that wants to invest in the changes and work that you do brings both parties together and creates a stronger momentum toward that change.  This week %

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Grant Pro Superheroes

https://grantchat.org/2018/12/grant-pro-superheroes/

What is your superpower?  Grant professionals are dedicated to the organizations with and for. We want to leap large narratives in a single bound, write a needs statement faster than a speeding bullet, and set up our organization's programs to be more powerful than a speeding locomotive. Today, %

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Grant Mistakes

https://grantchat.org/2018/12/grant-mistakes/

Let's Talk about Grant Mistakes Like many grant professionals, I was thrown into the grants profession by my peers. When our small team needed to write a large federal grant, we looked at each other and wondered who would write the grant all eyes turned to me. This was before we had the Google,%

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How Mature Is Your Grant Development?

https://grantchat.org/2018/11/how-mature-is-your-grant-development/

Grant Development Maturity Model As organizations build their grant capacity and add systems to track progress and data, they see their grant development mature. This week, we are chatting about grant development maturity and how organization experience growth and efficiency as they progress %

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Grant Gratitude

https://grantchat.org/2018/11/grant-gratitude-2/

For the past five years, the GrantChat community takes time to discuss grant gratitude and what it means, when is it given, and how it is expressed. Today, we want to thank each of our GrantChat community members who have participated and lurked through hundreds of chats. You have supported%

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20 Actions to Get the Most from Your Conference

20 Actions to Get the Most from Your Conference

We are gearing up for the Grant Professionals Association Conference! It will be held in Chicago, November 7-10 at the Swissotel. So, we’re sharing tips and toll of getting the most out of this, and any other, conference. We have created a conference checklist to help make your next conference your best experience, yet!

PREPARE FOR YOUR CONFERENCE

1 – What do you want – really, really want?

Once…

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Getting the Most Out of Your Conference

https://grantchat.org/2018/10/getting-the-most-out-of-your-conference/

The GrantChat team is heading to the Grant Professionals Association conference next week. As we prepare for the largest gathering of grant professionals, we are sharing our tips and strategies with each other. We know many of you are also going to #GPAConf18 and or other conferences in the %

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Grant Horror Stories: 2018 Edition

https://grantchat.org/2018/10/grant-horror-stories-2018-edition/

It is time for our annual Grantchat Grant Horror Stories! We DARE you to join us a terrifying look into the world behind the grant professional’s creaky door.  Working with grants has its risks and most of us have experienced the terror of the invisible decision maker, the case of the missing fo%

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From Isolation to Teams for More Wins

https://grantchat.org/2018/10/from-isolation-to-teams-for-more-wins/

Have you ever felt isolated or alone as you struggle to develop your grant application or grant reports? We have all been there. We need data, financial predictions, staffing strategies, partnership agreements, benchmarks, and more. However, all too often, others within an organization don't%

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We are in this together!

https://grantchat.org/2018/10/we-are-in-this-together/

Does your organization's culture promote cross-departmental collaboration or create barriers or disincentives to working together across various organizations functions? Today, we are talking about organization cultures and how sharing and coordinating the organization's grant strategy, process, %

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