Grant Writing & Funding

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A concept that I have been talking about this year is doing the MVP. Now you may have heard the term MVP before, with the acronym standing for Minimum Viable Product. 

But my MVP concept stands for Minimum VALUE Product.

You want to deliver something more than just a ‘viable’ product, hence the word ‘VALUE’.

What I have seen after working with more than 300 freelance grant writers in 2025 (and literally more than 1,000 over the last 10 years) is that many of you are all adding fluff to your contracts thinking it will help sell, BUT IT ONLY MAKES YOU OVERPRICED.

This is an important note, especially in 2025 when streamlining is the word for every organization.

In 2025 and 2026, nonprofits and organizations want:
  • grant funding 
  • to know the ways to get them to that funding
  • to be updated on what is going on in the grant funding world.
You need to do the work that will DRIVE forward the MOST VALUE for your client, without fluff. 
  1. Figure out what is the minimum you can do to GET VALUABLE Results. 
  2. Cut out the fluff from your contracts. 
  3. Price appropriately.
  4. Stop delivering more than what you are getting paid to do.
Now, I am not saying to take out what is important, but I am asking you to examine what needs to get done now and to what depth.

Overpitching right now doesn’t make sense. And it probably makes you overpriced.
  • If you can get results by writing 15 grants, stop pitching to write 35 grants.
  • If that full-on Nonprofit Wellness Audit can be cut down to a DIY (vs. Done-For-You), then do it.
  • If finding 25 grant funding prospects vs. 50 grant funding prospects makes sense, do it.
  • If weekly meetings can be cut to monthly, do it.
  • If live meetings can be turned into loom wrap-up videos you send over, do it.
Cut the work down for you so you can do the MINIMUM VALUE PRODUCT for your clients right now.

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World-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author Holly Rustick provides coaching that helps new and experienced grant writers replace their full-time income while writing grants part-time from home (or anywhere they want to live or travel in the world).

She coaches changemakers to master grant writing and start to grow 6-figure+ grant writing businesses on part-time hours via her signature group program, “Freelance Grant Writer Academy."

As an unapologetic feminist, Holly’s work in coaching female grant writers to master grant writing, find their cause-area niche, and navigate value-based pricing and nonprofit sales is breaking glass ceilings for women all over the world.

Every week, she coaches thousands of people through the top-ranking podcast, Grant Writing & Funding, books on grant writing, and inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy.

Holly has 20 years of experience in grant writing, and began her freelance grant writing journey back in 2005. While teaching in Kuwait and Indonesia, and then earning a Master’s Degree in International Political Economy in Belgium, Holly saw the light of setting up a virtual-based business in grant writing back in the mid-2000s. Having secured more than $45 million of dollars for nonprofit organizations, and then setting up a multi 6-figure freelance business, Holly has a mission to help female grant writers break out of toxic nonprofit J-O-B-S and create high-level income while freelance grant writing.

Inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy, students have secured more than $225+ million in grant funding and $4+ million in revenue in their grant writing businesses within two years.

To amplify this work, she is past-president of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce and was appointed to the Guam Business Advisory Task Force as an advisor to the first female governor of Guam. Holly lives on the island of Guam with her beautiful daughter, Isabella.

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