03 Dec Classroom Teachers Write by Julie Assel, GPC
Posted at 22:04h
in Competency Three, Julie Assel, GPC, K-12 Education, Program Development, Writing
I have worked with a wide variety of organizations in the last ten years, but I have found no direct program staff more reticent to write grants than classroom teachers. They, like most program staff are "too busy", "don't know how" or "not sure even...
20 Nov Large Classroom Projects by Julie Assel, GPC
Last month we talked about how to apply for grant funding to support small projects in the classroom. As teachers dream about how to bring innovative hands-on projects to their students, many of their dreams will grow and teachers will begin to be frustrated with...
15 Oct Logic Models for Human Service Organizations by Julie Assel, GPC
Posted at 22:05h
in Competency Three, Human Services, Julie Assel, GPC, Logic Models, Program Design, Writing
All nonprofit organizations are noticing an increase in requests for logic models, but I believe these requests are more frequent for human service organizations. In addition, I believe human service organizations struggle with developing high-quality logic models more than any other nonprofit sector. A standard logic...
16 Sep Studying a Federal Request For Proposal (RFP) by Julie Assel, GPC
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
03 Aug Commonly Requested Financial Documents by Julie Assel, GPC
Posted at 22:06h
in Budgets, Competency Three, Julie Assel, GPC, News, Organizational Development, Program Design
One of the ways organizations can be more prepared when the “perfect” grant comes along with a very short timeline is to already have a file of standard attachments.
24 Jul Small Classroom Projects by Julie Assel, GPC
Posted at 22:07h
in Competency Two, Funding, Julie Assel, GPC, K-12 Education, Program Design, Program Development, Research
I got my start grant writing when I was a music teacher. There were many small fun projects I wanted to do with my students which did not require a lot of money.