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You want to clear 8 hours a week from your schedule so you can work ON your business and not always IN your business.

Is this You?

  • You started a grant writing business and have gotten income but it’s not as consistent as you want it to be. In fact, you feel anxious because getting clients is still a bit of a hamster wheel and you feel like you are living contract to contract. Plus, you are operating on a shoestring budget because you keep saying yes to deep discounts.

  • You are growing your grant writing business, and you are getting clients left and right, but you are burned out. You are bringing in revenue, but it feels like you are working all hours of the night now. You started this business for more freedom in your schedule, but now find yourself working more than ever…
  • You love the flexibility of working from home and growing your grant writing business, but you feel isolated. You get stuck in decision paralysis because of not having a sounding board. You might even be asking the wrong people for business advice; i.e. your spouse, friends, or neighbors.
  • As you grow your grant writing business, you know you can’t do it all, but you aren’t sure how to go about hiring (consultant, employee?), or even how much budget you should set aside to hire. Your business feels all over the place. You know SOPs are important but you are too busy learning all the things to make sense of the big picture.

Or maybe you are a combination of all 4.

YOU CAN TRIPLE YOUR REVENUE IN 12 MONTHS WHILE TRANSITIONING TO A 4-DAY WORKWEEK.

When you apply our Peaceful SCALE System, you will finally be able to run your business as an industry leader instead of letting it run you into the ground. When you apply the Peaceful SCALE System, you will get our Systems, Support, and Scalability processes so you can grow your grant writing business to bring in the revenue you want, with clients you love, so you live the life you envision. Plus, in our Peaceful SCALE System, you will take time off while your business runs smoothly and keeps growing – without you! 

***If you are only thinking about starting a grant writing business or have NO income yet, then check out our Freelance Grant Writer Academy.

THE PEACEFUL SCALE SYSTEM

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S: SYSTEMS AND SOPS

  • Systems and SOPs will allow you to create efficiencies in your business AND also help when you hire a Virtual Assistant, Online Business Manager, Content Developer, etc. Without these, you will hire and then get frustrated.
  • Stop doing all the administrative tasks in your business.
  • Shift your business from 24/7 burnout of doing all the things into having CEO confidence and more peace.
  • Have all the resources to learn how to hire, automate systems, eliminate unproductive tasks, and create a smooth business.

C: Calendar Space

  • Clearing your Calendar Space is essential to become a CEO of your grant writing business
  • Stop working evenings, weekends, and holidays being stuck in everything in your business.
  • Learn how to take a real vacation while still having income for your grant writing company (even while you are away).
  • Free up time to think about creating those passive income streams, webinars, lead generators, and online courses!

A: Abundance Mindset

  • Step into a wealthy mindset which will lead to an affluence/abundance of ideal nonprofit clients, partners, and financial wealth.
  • Create payroll relief as you understand techniques of how to grow your business peacefully without a ton of consultants or employees.
  • Get relief as you start creating a business that has flow instead of getting stuck in paralysis of indecision.

L: Level Up Your Legacy

  • Create a legacy of a business by improving your systems so your business can run without you and even be sold.
  • Be a leader in the grant writing space with your unique industry concept that you are passionate about.
  • Create massive change in areas that you are passionate about by streamlining your services and creating more time in your schedule to have meaningful thought work on how you can enhance the cause area that you are passionate about. Yes, your business can do that!

E: Enjoy Your Business & Life

  • You started your business with a ‘why’ and it’s time to return to that ‘why’ and make it real in your business and life.
  • Enjoy the parts of your business that you love, while learning how to efficiently outsource what you do not love or that is draining your energy.
  • Get that excitement back about your business and out of overwhelm. It’s time to take the time to reflect and put some processes in place so you don’t burn your business to the ground, but prune what’s not working and nurture what is.

About Holly Rustick, CEO of Grant Writing & Funding

Holly Rustick is a world-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author.

Holly has been coaching grant writers how to run successful 5-6 figure businesses since 2017.

With two decades of grant writing and nonprofit experience, Holly is a popular keynote speaker for events all over the world,  podcast host of the Top-Ranked Grant Writing podcast, a former university instructor, and is past president of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce.  She is constantly booked out to run trainings to help grant writers grow capacity, increase funding, and advance mission.

“I have a mission to create a community where grant professionals have peace and profit.” ~ Holly Rustick

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Inside the Grant Professional Mentorship Mastermind

Welcome 3-Hour Business Reset Meeting

The 3-Hour Reset Strategy Call will reposition your business so can finally prioritize your business and start working ON it.

We will do Business Reset to Uplevel Your Business. We will:

  • Identify Your Ideal Service Triad: Create clarity and get mind space for your business.
  • Create Your Unique Industry Concept: Embolden your voice in the grant writing space and you will start creating real change in what you are passionate about.
  • Articulate Your Service Offer Promise: Get clear on what your delivery promise is to your clients. This creates confidence in communicating with clients.
  • Outline a strategy to end Q4 with a vacation: It’s time to start gearing up for a vacation by the end of the year, where you aren’t stressed out by taking off time.

This Business Reset Strategy Call will be on Oct. 3rd from 4:30 – 7:30 pm EST, and there will be a Replay available.

Mentorship Portal

You’re going to learn the Peaceful SCALE System where you will implement systems and SOPs to immediately increase your revenue and rest in the boundaries that are created to protect your time from your clients. You will learn my unique approach to tripling revenue peacefully that has helped  grant writers in their growing businesses who are now leading businesses that they absolutely love while feeling valued and empowered.

Specific Curriculum Includes:

  • Systems Training to Hire and Delegate
  • SOPs templates and feedback
  • Uplevel Contracts for larger and longer contracts
  • Business Systems Reset
  • Service Offer Promise Training
  • Create Calendar Space and Take a Vacation
  • Optimizing Lead Magnets and Funnels
  • Passive Income Strategies
  • High-Converting Webinars and Workshops
  • Policies for Boundaries
  • Creating Courses that Sell
  • Marketing in Smart Way for Your Business
  • Value-Based Pricing that will Empower Your Contracts
  • Grant Writing Training
  • Diversify Your Services with the Nonprofit Wellness Audit, Strategic Planning, and More
  • And more…

Twice Monthly Group Coaching

You will get coaching at the highest level and also hear other people get coached. This feedback is VITAL in driving forward and implementing the curriculum in our portal because you will get feedback on how you have adapted the concepts, templates, and resources to your particular business.

Our Group Coaching Includes:

  • Accountability Calls – Every quarter we have a dedicated Accountability Call to reflect on your goals, wins, challenges, and epiphanies on the past quarter. These calls are integral to understand how to evaluate your business on a consistent frequency so you can course correct for your annual goal.
  • Hot Seat Coaching Calls – Every month you get an opportunity to ask any business question and get direct feedback. Together, mentees have developed webinars, bid on contracts, and have subcontracted one another. Plus, some have become lifelong friends!
  • Masterclasses: We have Masterclasses throughout the year to enhance the curriculum in the course and even bring on guest coaches!
  • Book Club: We go over business/personal development books and get coaching on implementing concepts into your business.

Daily Slack Coaching

You will be able to ask any business, mindset, hiring, etc. question on a daily basis in our Private Slack Channel. You will receive coaching from Holly and your peers inside this channel and also be able to ask for feedback on your business! This will also give you an opportunity to connect with other members, share your business wins, and more so you can get over decision paralysis.

Business & Grant Reviews

Do you want a proposal reviewed before you submit it to a client or even a grant proposal reviewed before you send to a client? We got your back! You can get personalized feedback on anything you are developing in your business or grant. Mentees have increased their grant writing success dramatically just by tapping into the review channel!

Be Featured on the Grant Writing & Funding Website

Do you want to have thousands of people see your company for hire every single month? You can get listed under our ‘Hire a Grant Writer’ page. Even if you have had your business for awhile, you still might not have a website. It takes time to gain SEO and get traffic to your website, LinkedIn handle, and more. Leveraging our website that gets thousands of views every single month is a fantastic way to leverage traffic that already comes to our website! This has helped many in our Mentorship gain clients and get leads!

Be Featured on the Grant Writing & Funding Podcast

The Grant Writing & Funding podcast is the top-ranked grant writing podcast on all platforms and of 2023 has nearly a half million listens. We feature folks from the Grant Professional Mentorship on the Grant Writing & Funding podcast so nonprofits can hear about your unique services. This is an amazing opportunity to share some of your expert skills with thousands of nonprofit organizations and get ears on your business!

Real Results from Mentees

Alejandra Tripled Her Prices & Got 4 Clients in 2 Months!

Cheri Increased Her Prices & Got Her First Retainer Client

Christine is a Grant Reviewer & Grew Her Business

Chiara Increased her LinkedIn Traffic 6X & Raised Rates

Kim Tripled Her Revenue in 6 Months

Yvonne Got Grant Review Jobs & Streamlined Services

#1: It’s Relevant

There are a lot of business memberships and masterminds out there, but there are no mentorships that focus on grant writers to grow their businesses from someone who has done it! You get all of Holly’s strategies in how she built up and grew a successful grant writing agency AND who now has developed a multi-6 figure online grant coaching business. She knows how to get you from burnout and overwhelm and via systems to a place of more calendar space while growing revenue.

#2: It’s Simple

If you have hundreds of hours of content, weekly long sessions, and lots of homework you are not going to do it.

We need simple tools and methods that do just enough to: a) free up some of our time and b) make sure we get the strategies done!

Plus, you get SOPs, hiring systems, and templates to adjust to YOUR business.

It is simple, but loaded with the vital steps to move forward.

#3: It’s 12 Months

We focus on our goals every single quarter and how they feed into your annual plan.  If you are not evaluating your business, you will be stuck in a tailspin of burnout. You will be hopping between website, pricing, social media, and checking your email (sometimes all in the same hour). No more. When you join the Grant Professional Mentorship, you will be focused and have a supportive group to keep you accountable as you implement systems in your business throughout a full 12 months.

What’s next for you?

Now is the time to make the decision about what’s next for you.

You can keep on doing what you’ve been doing, and keep getting the same results. You can keep running your business like a charity by offering deep discounts to nonprofit clients who ask for pro bono work.

Or you can learn from my experience of working with grant writers growing their businesses  — and save yourself years of frustration and spinning your wheels.

To reach your goals of growing your revenue without increasing burnout for your grant writing business, you have to make a change.

I’ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars and years of work to get the level of success I’m offering you with this program.

This is what you’ve been looking for: a proven system used by grant writers that will allow you to grow your business with intention and joy.

Let’s triple your revenue in 12 months and get you to working 4 days a week.

waitlist for mentorship grant writers

FAQs

Where we Meet: We meet twice per month on Zoom and throughout the month in the private LinkedIn group.

When: We meet on the second and fourth Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. EST. (November and December we meet on the 1st and 3rd Mondays)

You also have a beautiful platform where all the Replays are hosted and additional resources :)

You get immediate access to the additional courses: Grant Writing Master Course, Freelance Grant Writer Business Course, and Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course, and the Nonprofit Wellness Audit.

Additional Curriculum is available inside the Grant Professional Mentorship, including: SOPs, Hiring Systems, Creating Passive Income, Service Offer Promise training, Having Successful Workshops, Creating Webinars that Sell, and so much more. *new content in Q4 of 2023

You will have access to our beautiful platform!

The Grant Professional Mentorship is for grant writers who already have momentum in their businesses and are looking to scale.

If you are new to grant writing or starting a grant writing business, we recommend you first start with the Freelance Grant Writer Academy.

Having an option out isn’t real commitment. But putting some ‘skin in the game’ guarantees a higher level of growth in your time, energy and the real impact: your financial growth.

We offer a 12-month payment plan to assist you with your budget while growing your freelance grant writing business!

For the Grant Professional Mentorship, Holly has included a lot of benefits!

This includes:

  • Live Sessions twice per month for the entire year (Masterclasses, Hot Seat Workshops, Book Clubs, Accountability Meetings) on Zoom, valued at $7,500
  • Grant Writing Master Course, valued at $697 (click here to see this robust 6 module course)
  • Freelance Grant Writer Master Course, valued at $997 (click here to see this robust 8 module course)
  • Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course, valued at $697 (click here to see the robust 10 module course)
  • Nonprofit Wellness Audit, valued at $500.
  • Fempreneur Planner, valued at $97
  • Grant Reviews done by Holly, valued at $2250
  • Being listed on the Grant Writing & Funding Website as a grant writer for hire, valued at $500 per month
  • Being featured on the Grant Writing & Funding podcast, valued at $500
  • Private Slack Group
  • Guest Speakers who are thought-leaders in the nonprofit industry
  • Mid-Year $10,000 Challenge (July)
  • Systems Training to Hire and Delegate
  • SOPs templates and feedback
  • Uplevel Contracts for larger and longer contracts
  • Business Systems Reset
  • Service Offer Training
  • Create Calendar Space and Take a Vacation
  • Optimizing Lead Magnets and Funnels
  • Passive Income Strategies
  • High-Converting Webinars and Workshops
  • Policies for Boundaries
  • Creating Courses that Sell

First, we have to define the word success.

If you’re hoping to find a silver bullet that requires very little work on your part and still guarantees your business is successful, then this program isn’t for you.

However, if you are looking for a system that has a proven track record of helping individuals get their freelance grant writing business securing clients, increasing income, and improving confidence, then this is right for you!

Just read the testimonials on this website to see the REAL results that mentees have gotten!

You have access to the Mentorship for a full 12-months once you enter the program.

You only have access to the courses and all benefits (including being listed on the GW&F website) if you are enrolled in the Grant Professional Mentorship.

We meet twice per month for 75 minutes for each call.

Some ‘pre-planning’ is recommended each month for a total of about an hour.

There are also one to two books per quarter to read.

It is important to know that you do need to invest time working ‘on’ your business. But when you do this it will help you eliminate ‘busy work’ and do efficient work that brings in revenue with taking the least amount of time. This is because you will be laser-focused on doing the important work in your business and having accountability that you are actually implementing it!

Once you get up to a recurring $2,500-$3,000 per month in your grant writing business, then it’s a good time to start investing in the Grant Professional Mentorship program. However, that is not a hard number. If you know that you have clients coming in and want to start putting more hiring systems in place, then it’s a good time to join. However, we recommend you first finish your 12 months in the Freelance Grant Writer Academy before joining the Grant Professional Mentorship.

The Freelance Grant Writer Academy gives you the step-by-step tools and resources to start and grow your business and is a GREAT additional resource.

However, how the Grant Professional Mentorship is different in that it is a long-term accountability and feedback program to keep your momentum going! The Freelance Grant Writer Academy is an amazing course to get you kick-started, but the Grant Professional Mentorship keeps you going after the honeymoon phase has ended!

*There are no discounts to the Mentorship if you already own the Grant Writing Master Course, the Freelance Grant Writer Academy, or the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master course. The Mentorship program without these is worth more than $5,000 and these are just additional courses to help you succeed!

Here at Grant Writing & Funding we have a no refund policy. Holly cares about the success of each and everyone of her students. She also cares about value of respecting one another’s time.

She encourages you to take the time to read the sales page and email her ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

We are here to help if you need any assistance before and after joining the program.

The Grant Professional Mentorship is an annual program; however we have added a payment plan option.

When you consider joining, know that your investment and commitment for 12 months is what will make your business grow in leaps and strides!

Therefore, we want you to commit to invest in your business and this community for the year.

Having an option out isn’t real commitment. But putting some ‘skin in the game’ guarantees a higher level of growth in your time, energy and the real impact: your financial growth.

We offer a 12-month payment plan to assist you with your budget while growing your freelance grant writing business!