This episode, Holly Rustick explains the benefits of being a part-time grant writer, how to become a part-time grant writer, and the dangers of relying on a nonprofit job.
Holly Rustick is a world-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author who has been coaching grant writers on how to run successful 5-6 figure businesses since 2017.
Holly talks about the difference between full-time freelancing and part-time freelancing, the flexibility and freedom involved with grant writing, and how you can replace your full-time income on flexible hours by writing grants.
She also explains how most grant writers get clients, the different ways to build your credibility as a grant writer, and start your freelance grant writing journey.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- The benefits of being a part-time grant writer.
- How to become a part-time grant writer.
- How most grant writers get clients.
- Ways to build your credibility as a grant writer.
- The dangers of relying on a nonprofit job.
- The flexibility and freedom involved with grant writing.
- The difference between full-time freelancing and part-time freelancing.
- How to replace your full-time income on flexible hours by writing grants.
Quotables:
- “You might think it’s all or nothing to start a grant writing business but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Most grant writer consultants start writing grants for one client at a time.”
- “If you are writing grants even inside your nonprofit, post it on your social media. Even if you don’t have a business yet we want to build up that credibility and for people to relate you to those different grants that you’re winning.”
- “The skills of writing grants are going to be what you leverage to create money, but also skills of knowing how to do ethical nonprofit skills is what’s going to be able to keep you able to get clients. We need to know the skills of grant writing and the skills of sales with nonprofits.”
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