Competency Four - Assel Grant Services

13 Dec Bring Your Logic Model to Life – Julie Alsup, GPC

Posted at 21:27h in Competency Four, Competency Three, Julie Alsup, GPC, Logic Models, Program Design, Program Development, Research, Strategy

Do you consider a logic model an afterthought or simply a required attachment that is done at the end of the proposal process?

03 Dec What’s So Scary About Federal Grants? by Thomas Assel, GPC

Posted at 21:28h in Competency Five, Competency Four, Federal Grants, Organizational Development, Program Design, Thomas Assel, GPC

My wife, Julie Assel, likes writing federal grants. I’ve been told that’s odd, and I guess I can understand why. Consider your average small-to-medium foundation grant. It might be a 2-3-page letter with an attached organizational budget, maybe your 501c3 letter and a board roster, but nothing you haven’t seen ten or a hundred times before. On the more complex end of what we normally experience, you’ve got agencies like the Health Forward Foundation in Kansas City asking for all that plus a logic model and theory of change indicator chart, with a 15-page narrative limit on certain grants. Fifteen single-spaced pages is nothing to sneeze at. Federal grants can have even higher page limits and even more attachments. The SF-424 alone can take more time to fill out than some grants can take to write.

25 Aug Case Statement Clean Up, by Julie Assel, GPC

Posted at 21:42h in Case Statements, Competency Four, Julie Assel, GPC, Narrative

I like efficiency and one of the many things I like about case statements is the ability to efficiently use my time to align my high quality case statement language to the mission of funders. But now it is August and I have been using the same base for my program language for eight months. Even if it isn’t getting stale to my funders because they haven’t seen it, it is getting stale to me. So what can I do?

15 Jun From Engineering to Grant Writing by Tom Assel, GPC

Posted at 21:54h in About AGS, Competency Four, Competency Nine, Inspiration, Professionalism, Thomas Assel, GPC

Life can be full of twists and turns. At the tender age of 17, I made my plan. I would finish high school (check!). I would do a year of community college to get a feel for college life and get some basics out of...

16 Sep Studying a Federal Request For Proposal (RFP) by Julie Assel, GPC

Posted at 22:05h in Competency Four, Competency One, Federal Grants, Julie Assel, GPC, Research

Assel Grant Services enjoys writing federal grants and is commonly called upon to write these grants with very little lead time. When this short lead time is requested by an organization we have worked extensively with in the past, this is pretty easy to do....

22 Aug Grant Team and Timeline
by Julie Assel, GPC

Posted at 22:06h in Competency Four, Competency Three, Julie Assel, GPC, Organizational Readiness, Program Development, Strategy

After finding the federal grant for which you think might be a good fit for your organization