Felena Hanson sat down with Valerie Grant to learn more about what it takes to earn grants as a nonprofit organization.
Valeris Grant is the founder of Grant Consulting Services, which specializes in assisting nonprofit organizations to meet their goals and objectives through comprehensive grant development services. These services include:
- Full project development
- Comprehensive funding searches
- Professional grant proposal writing services
Project Development:
We can assist your organization in planning, implementing and evaluating your current and new projects. This process can help you clarify goals, objectives and activities through a comprehensive plan that is tailor made for your unique organization and populations served.
Comprehensive funding searches:
Did you ever wonder if there are other avenues of funding out there for your projects? There probably are. We have access to over 71,000 grant making agencies in the United States, including the Federal Government. We receive weekly updates to new and continuing funding opportunities. Let us find the perfect funding match for you!
Professional grant proposal writing services:
Fundraising is one of the most significant tasks done in order to ensure the continuation of your program or research. Yet many organizations lack the resources, experience or skills to complete the application process. You no longer have to submit the same proposal to foundations or agencies that have different requirements. We will write a proposal that is tailor made for your program. Let our experience work for you. We have a great success rate and understanding of what the grant-makers are looking for in a proposal. We can save you time and potential headaches while helping you to become fully funded.
Specialties: Grant development for nonprofit organizations. Creating processes and procedures for fundraising, writing business plans, annual reports, sales letters, marketing materials and articles on varied topics.
Valerie Grant is the Founder and CEO of Grant Consulting Services, LLC, a grant development consulting firm founded in 2000. Valerie and her team help to make the world a better place for all people. They engage in the fight against systemic giants of injustice, assist in remedies of inequality, and collaborate to empower the disenfranchised. Working with organizations across the globe that help people, Grant Consulting Services, LLC assists in feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, cultivating the arts, student learning, and combating the effects of global warming. We give a voice to the unheard and inspire the compassion and unity of all people.
Valerie is currently the only grant professional in San Diego County, CA who has earned the Grant Professional Certification. In April 2023, Valerie became one of only 42 Grant Professional Association (GPA) Approved Trainers. The Approved Trainer certification is rare, and only Grant Professionals with more than five years of experience and a peer committee-approved curriculum are eligible to apply. All GPA Approved Trainers abide by the GPA Code of Ethics. GPA Approved Trainers can better prepare organizations to seek and attain grant funds–whether it is a start-up or a well-established organization.
Being a GPA Approved Trainer provides third-party validation demonstrating that a Grant Professional is well-prepared, credible, and skilled in helping people build their grants knowledge base. The GPA Approved Trainer program demonstrates a level of training expertise to potential clients and colleagues from one of the premier grant professional associations.
You can learn more about grants through Valerie’s educational series, Grantegy: Don’t Leave Your Grants to Chance! This is an opportunity to learn from a GPA Approved Trainer about the strategic grant development process from start to finish! For a quick overview of the process, check out this video Grant Development Process
Ms. Grant is also a published author and an accomplished freelance writer. Some of Valerie’s current community involvement and volunteer work include:
Grant Professionals Certification Institute Ambassador for San Diego County
Co-founder and past President of the Grant Professionals Association San Diego County Chapter https://sandiegogpa.org
North County Philanthropy Council-Fundraising committee member https://ncphilanthropy.org/
Valerie has a baccalaureate degree in Business Administration from Baker College in Flint, MI, and studied Social Work for two years at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA.
Website: www.grantconsultingservices.com
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