Last month, three of our staff - our President/CEO, Julie Assel; our VP of Operations, Julie Alsup; and Administrative Assistant, Katie Kendle - traveled down to New Orleans to the AFP ICON conference to exhibit and talk to development staff from across the world about...
Lee’s Summit, MO (September 4, 2019) — Assel Grant Services announces that Emily Hampton, MPA, and Michele Ryan have joined the firm as Grant Associates. With the addition of Hampton and Ryan, the firm has grown to a staff of fourteen, eight of whom are credentialed grant professionals, or Grant...
No other grant services firm in the country has more GPCs on staff. (KANSAS CITY, MO. August 12, 2018) – Assel Grant Services announces Tracey Diefenbach, a Certified Grant Professional (GPC), has joined the firm. She brings expertise in federal and youth development grant writing and will work...
News of our fifth staff member passing the Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) exam was like music to Julie Assel’s ears. Literally. Julie, President and CEO of Assel Grant Services, began her distinguished career as a music teacher in the Kansas City Missouri School District. As...
As the trend rises for more and more companies, even in the nonprofit area, to outsource grant writing, Assel Grant Services is responding by expanding their team of grant writers. Early as 2015, we added three new staff members, and in 2017 we’ve brought on board...
Assel Grant Services is growing, adding three new team members to our staff for a total of seven, to meet increasing demand for grant writing services. Our firm is quickly becoming one of the area’s leading teams of grant consultants as the trend of outsourcing...
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...
Many people have asked me over the years how I went from being a music teacher to a grant writer. I think there are two key components which made this a very natural transition for me. My liberal arts music education degree emphasized quality no...
“We can find a way to fix that, can't we?” When I started teaching English Language Learners in 2008, I had no idea the number of times I would say that phrase. I have found myself in over my head numerous times with that statement, but...
My early days in the nonprofit development world consisted of tracking donations in Raisers Edge, writing thank you letters, drafting E-newsletters, answering phones, and supporting the department through various administrative tasks. Oh, and recruiting my hubby to lift heavy objects at special events while I...