Creating a culture of freelance grant writers, who work from home on flexible hours and make a higher revenue than inside a nonprofit J-O-B.

We provide grant writing skills and business acumen skills, so you can start or grow a grant writing business and serve causes that are meaningful while having boundaries to still live your life.

Courage

IT IS THROUGH COURAGE, AUTHENTICITY, CONNECTION AND CREATIVITY THAT WE HELP YOU THRIVE.

It takes courage to start and grow a business...and at is true with a grant writing business, too. Many grant professionals are women (82%) and come from the nonprofit industry.

What Courage looks like and how it shows up in our programs/business: We talk about things happening in the industry - nonprofit toxicity, inequity pay, how grant writers have /are being treated unjustly, when to 'release' clients, and so much more. This all takes courage to confront these discussions.

We provide mindset coaching and are courageous to give our students 'honest' coaching.

In our business, we stand in courage when making business decisions that even though they might not feel 'comfy' they are needed.

Authenticity

We are honest with our story and also honest in how we interact with students. We promote an awareness around the validity of how our students feel as they go through changes as entrepreneurs and in their identity of becoming a freelancer or business owner.

We fully believe that this process of shifting identities from 'employee' to owner has students peel back layers of money trauma and old story-telling. What we see is that the students shift into this identity feeling supported and shine as who they actually are and don't have to 'become' someone else.

So instead of going into a sales call with old 'self-protecting' beliefs, they go into Sales Calls and writing grants with confidence of who they really are; shoulders up straight.

What Authenticity looks like and how it shows up in our programs/ business: We work with our students and give transparent examples (from our business and examples of our 20 years of being in the industry). If we don't know the answer, we pull in students from the program who may have more experience in certain areas, guest coaches, or refer out to our industry network.

Inclusiveness & Connection

We believe in relationships being important for real connection for changemakers in our programs, but also how they operate with funders in their businesses.

What Inclusiveness/Connection looks like and how it shows up in our programs/business: This shows up in the interaction in our Slack channel and sharing in coaching. We try to be aware as possible about what's happening in the industry and social changes that impacts people. We provide a safe place where changemakers of all different races, ages, and gender representation, and varying abilities belong and have a voice.

Inside our business, we hire team members and vendors with diverse backgrounds as we believe it's important for changemakers in our programs to be represented, and that it is important for equality. We believe that we, from diverse backgrounds, have much to teach each other.

Creativity

We believe in quality being important, but speed to market is equally important. We look at creative ways to get students resources, feedback, and connections that they need, when they need it.

What Creativity looks like and how it shows up in our programs/business: Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't mean it's always right. We are disrupters in this space because we are completely looking at the way that grant writers have been treated for DECADES and changing up the narrative and beliefs around this. We think creatively and provide language and vocabulary to support folks as they change their pricing, confront urban myths about grant writing, etc.

Mission Statement

To coach new and seasoned grant writers with Sales and Systems Frameworks so they create peaceful, profitable, and flexible grant writing legacy businesses.

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Vision Statement

Grant Professionals have legacy businesses, that break glass ceilings on flexible hours, while delivering high-quality grant writing services for nonprofits.

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MEET THE FOUNDER

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I've been writing grants for 20 years and doing part-time freelance or working inside nonprofits.

What I noticed was that I ALWAYS been able to utilize my grant writing skills to either
a) get a job,
b) get a promotion in a job, or
c) earn extra money writing grants on the side, and finally
d) as a freelance grant writer making more money than ever before.

However, 10 years after that, and after working in nonprofits for a long time, I realized that they are toxic workplaces for grant writer, and especially women.

In addition to this grants are thrown at them at the last moment and they work evenings, weekends, and holidays. Most grant writers are also females. They end up feeling guilted to work these long hours and work 'in charity' and low salaries.

In 2004, I took a community development job in Indonesia after the Asian Tsunami in 2004. I started linking community members and writing proposals for them with the big UN orgs and didn't even realize what I was doing had a name "i.e. grant writing" but ended loving it and moving outside DC and working for a grant writing agency. I was able to live around the world doing different jobs while freelancing on the side.

Overall, grant writers are hard to pay inside a nonprofit, so they end up getting hired for other roles, but also have the responsibility of writing grants. they end up having to work two jobs but only get paid for one.

I landed in grant writing work - like SO many others - just because of a situation.

I also was asked how I became a grant writer from SO many people that I became coaching others in 2014! And I realized that all the work I did to figure out pricing, services, and nonprofit sales worked for others, too! I have created a movement for grant writers and now coach hundreds of people every week inside our group coaching programs to replace their full-time incomes, on flexible hours, writing grants from home.

I opened my own business so was able to charge a higher rate, create boundaries in my time/scope of work, and focus on writing grants instead of 'other duties as necessary'. This changed from me being able to earn a 6-figure income on less hours.

My life changed when:

From Freelance Grant Writer to Business Owner. The Grant Professional Mentorship helps Freelance Grant Writers Double Your Business Revenue with a Team, Systems, and Scalable Offers - without Burning Out.

You can scale your grant writing business with a team your business can afford. You can reduce burnout and grow revenue. Scaling doesn’t mean working more, it means working more efficiently and taking time to work ON your business. Change your identity to change your revenue.

The Grant Professional Mentorship is a 12-Month Group Mastermind with Coaching to help you create a team, double your revenue with additional revenue streamsYou will get everything you need to replace your full-time income, on flexible hours, while writing grants from home.

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The Freelance Grant Writer Academy is a 12-Month group coaching program, for aspiring and experienced grant writers, where you get curriculum, coaching, and community to create a financially stable and flexible Freelance Grant Writing Business.

You will get everything you need to replace your full-time income, on flexible hours, while writing grants from home.

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Every week, thousands of people tune in to hear about grant writing leading trends, how to navigate the changing nonprofit sector as a freelance grant writer, and how to build a successful business as a freelance grant writer.