What is your grant success rate? We all want guarantees in life.  We want to know, especially in this year of unusual change, that we will get the results we want when we want them.   I believe this desire for success is what leads clients to ask me about my success rate.  They believe

This is a great question!  While the vast majority of grant funding is awarded through a competitive process, there are some grants that don’t have a competitive element.  Here is a (likely not exhaustive) list of those that aren’t awarded on a competitive basis: Federal Grants with One Awardee:  While this might seem like the

It is a wonderful feeling to identify a grant opportunity that you believe is a perfect fit for your project!  You think, “Wow, someone might just hand me a check!”.  The excitement is palpable! I really don’t want to burst your bubble, but, instead of envisioning what you will do with ALL THAT MONEY, I

Enterprise Zones are economic development tools many cities and states use to attract companies and jobs.  Most commonly, industrial parks are designated as Enterprise Zones, or EZ’s, but they can be found anywhere there is a concentration of businesses or manufacturers.   Once an area is designated an Enterprise Zone (either by the city or

“The only thing constant is change.”  I’m not sure who said this, but it is so true in the grant world, especially in this CARES funding era. When I started writing grants, I naively thought that they came out on a nice, steady cycle.  After all, my primary experience was with writing training grants, which

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