Revitalizing Farming: Elaina’s Grant Writing Business and Impact in Agriculture with Elaina Michael 

This episode, Elaina Michael explains the impact grant writing can have on an organization, the benefits of focusing on a specific niche, and how to find the right clients for your grant writing business.

Elaina Michale is on a mission to accelerate regenerative agriculture through her grant writing and funding services.

Elaina explains the benefits of having a niche for your grant writing business, how to find more grant writing clients, and how to improve your grant writing skills.

She also talks about the usefulness of being in a grant writing community and the different ways that a grant writing mentorship program has helped her.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Elaina is accelerating regenerative agriculture through grant writing and funding.
• What regenerative agriculture is and why it’s so important.
• The impact grant writing can have on an organization.
• What Elaina includes in her grant writing newsletter.
• How to improve your grant writing skills.
• The benefits of focusing your grant writing on a specific niche.
• How to find the right clients for your grant writing business.
• How to find a grant writing community.
• The different benefits of being in a grant writing mentorship program.

About Elaina Michael

Elaina has always been drawn to understanding and deepening our connection to the land and each other, which led her to pursue a learn-by-doing B.S. in Animal Science and M.S. in Ruminant Nutrition. Both degrees ultimately revealed to her the depth of interdependence between land and animals – including humans.

Following her studies, she sought to continue her boots-on-the-ground education by working with reindeer in remote parts of Alaska, herding and milking Sarda sheep in Italy, frequenting horse-back excursions with local ranchers outside of Yosemite National Park to check on cattle in some of the most rugged terrain, and now through Ecological Outcome Verification monitoring through the Savory Institute.

Her own first-hand knowledge of the impacts of being connected with the land as well as witnessing her only brother’s internal transformation through wilderness recovery programs following his battle with heroine has solidified Elaina’s commitment to getting kids outside and addressing the root cause of breakdowns in society through agriculture and land-connection.

Refonte Ventures stems from these passion areas and an urgency to accelerate the rate of education and adoption of regenerative agriculture through grant-writing for and growing organizations, farms, and individuals with a holistic lens.

Connect with Elaina Michael:

• LinkedIn
• Email
• Instagram
• Return to the Land newsletter

Quotables:

• “With being a business owner you can direct the way a company goes but it’s the same with grant writing you can direct the way the money’s flowing and where it’s flowing towards.”
• “Go and see what’s already out there, see where you can connect with local organizations and the people in them might already have these ideas.”
• “One of the benefits of being in the mentorship program is having a group that can speak your language, that’s a big takeaway that’s been helpful and I have been grateful for.”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Return to the Land newsletter
• Freelance Grant Writer Academy
• How to Niche Your Grant Writing Services to Get Ideal Nonprofit Clients with Elaina Michael
• The Academy is Not Just a Program, It’s a Movement
• How Jen Made Her Investment Back within 3 Months, booked out clients, and won her first grant Inside the Academy
• Do you have a grant writing business and want to scale to multi 6 figures while building an agency? Join the Grant Professional Mentorship Waitlist

Are you a new or seasoned grant writer and want to start or grow a freelance grant writing business and replace your full-time income with writing grants part-time from home? The Freelance Grant Writer Academy might be more your speed. Join the waitlist here.

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