This episode, Grace Pankin explains her experience in the grant writing academy, how she created a part-time income while raising young children, and the challenges involved with starting a new grant writing business.
Grace Pankin has been writing grants for Southern Nevada nonprofits for over 5 years, and within the last three of those years, she’s helped to raise over 5 million dollars.
Grace explains how she was able to book out her grant writing business in two months by using the Unique Industry Concept and Pricing Reviews inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy.
She also talks about how inside the Academy, she increased her contracted hours with a current client, the different ways she improved her deliverables and customer service, and the value she got from having a new perspective on the grants she was writing.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Using grant writing to create a side income while raising young children.
- The challenges of starting a new grant writing business.
- How to price your grant writing services.
- How using a master grant application template can improve your client delivery process.
- The best way grant writers can network with nonprofit clients.
- How to increase your contracted hours with a grant writing client.
- Different ways to improve your deliverables and customer service.
- The power of getting a new perspective on grants you’re writing.
- How to manage your time as a grant writer.
About Grace Pankin
Grace Pankin has been writing grants for Southern Nevada nonprofits for over 5 years, and within the last three of those years, she’s helped to raise over 5 million dollars.
She started with a grant writing class in college and after graduating with a BA in Sociology (with an emphasis in social research), interned with the Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada. There she found her passion for working with nonprofits, promoting change in Nevada, and making it a better place for the people living here.
Since 2015, she has worked at The Las Vegas Natural History Museum as the Education Administrator and managed the funding of the field trip program for low-income students, as well as at Rebuilding Together of Southern Nevada as a Grant Writer and Development Coordinator. It was at Rebuilding Together that she maintained the fundraising for a $2 million budget, and in her first two years of working for them, of the grants awarded, over 20% of funding was from new partners.
Grace then founded Grants With Grace Consulting to continue growing her work with nonprofits, and to provide prospect research, grant writing, and grants management services and quality, honest grant writing and consulting services to nonprofit organizations.
Grace also teaches and gives nonprofits the resources to help them through the grant-writing process.
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Quotables:
- “It gave me more confidence because I’m good at grant writing but I’m not that good of a salesperson, and the academy made up a lot of what I lacked in that area.”
- “It’s much easier to bump up your hours with a current client when you renew than to go out and get a new client.”
- “At least two people should look at every grant because you’re going to miss something when you spend so much time looking at something.”
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