Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 24

Ten Steps to Making Grant Writing Your Career

IN THIS CHAPTER

Building your professional skills

Getting help early on

Networking for success

Practically every grantwriter dreams about quitting their full-time job with an employer and jumping into the self-employment arena to become a grantwriting consultant. But dreaming about something and actually doing it are miles (sometimes years) apart. The good news is, with the right tools, you can make it happen! In this chapter, I show you how to build your professional skills and launch a successful career as a freelance grantwriter.

Get Trained

Even if you have work or volunteer experience as a grantwriter, there’s always more to learn in this field. Our learning process, as grantwriters, is lifelong. Never, ever stop learning how to increase your grantwriting acumen.

When I made the leap into freelance grant writing, I was already writing award-winning grant applications as a consultant, but my clients keep asking for specific credentials or evidence of training in grant writing. At first, I was stymied. But I quickly discovered a national training company that presented its multiday grantwriting workshops around the country. ...