I often tell potential clients that grant writing is about 10% writing and 90% other activities.  This is why more and more grant writers prefer to be called grant professionals! Here are some of the many roles that grant professionals perform as part of the grant writing process: Project Manager – Much information must be

Potential clients often ask me this question when discussing grant research.  And, while I know they would love to hear a percentage, such as 25% or 100% (their truly desired answer), it isn’t that simple.  There are a couple of factors that play into finding (or not finding) a good fit.   The Ever-Changing Grant

If you’re looking to fund a growth initiative, the two most common ways to do it are through grants and loans. While there are some similarities between a grant and a loan, they are actually very different methods of paying for your growth projects. In this blog, we’ll explore similarities, detail how grants differ from

To understand the answer to this question, it is important to recognize that grants fund outcomes.  Outcomes are what will change as a result of a company getting a grants.  For for-profit companies, examples of outcomes include job creation, capital investment, upskilling employees, and increasing the market for goods made from recycled products.   If

In the non profit world, the answer to this question is pretty simple (foundations, primarily).  However, this is a significantly more complex question for the manufacturing and business community, primarily because the sources vary by state and type of project(s) the manufacturer executes.   Here is a non-exhaustive list of the typical sources of manufacturing

Small, medium and large.  So many things come in sizes.  Fountain drinks.  Clothes.  Starbucks Coffee (even though they don’t use the normal words!).   Similarly, grants come in various sizes and categories as well.  Here is a deeper explanation of small, medium and large grants, from my humble perspective. Small Grants –  I consider small