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This episode, Grace Pankin explains her experience in the grant writing academy, how she created a part-time income while raising young children, and the challenges involved with starting a new grant writing business.
Grace Pankin has been writing grants for Southern Nevada nonprofits for over 5 years, and within the last three of those years, she’s helped to raise over 5 million dollars.
Grace explains how she was able to book out her grant writing business in two months by using the Unique Industry Concept and Pricing Reviews inside the
Freelance Grant Writer Academy.
She also talks about how inside the Academy, she increased her contracted hours with a current client, the different ways she improved her deliverables and customer service, and the value she got from having a new perspective on the grants she was writing.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Using grant writing to create a side income while raising young children.
- The challenges of starting a new grant writing business.
- How to price your grant writing services.
- How using a master grant application template can improve your client delivery process.
- The best way grant writers can network with nonprofit clients.
- How to increase your contracted hours with a grant writing client.
- Different ways to improve your deliverables and customer service.
- The power of getting a new perspective on grants you’re writing.
- How to manage your time as a grant writer.
About Grace Pankin
Grace Pankin has been writing grants for Southern Nevada nonprofits for over 5 years, and within the last three of those years, she’s helped to raise over 5 million dollars.
She started with a grant writing class in college and after graduating with a BA in Sociology (with an emphasis in social research), interned with the Make-A-Wish Southern Nevada. There she found her passion for working with nonprofits, promoting change in Nevada, and making it a better place for the people living here.
Since 2015, she has worked at The Las Vegas Natural History Museum as the Education Administrator and managed the funding of the field trip program for low-income students, as well as at Rebuilding Together of Southern Nevada as a Grant Writer and Development Coordinator. It was at Rebuilding Together that she maintained the fundraising for a $2 million budget, and in her first two years of working for them, of the grants awarded, over 20% of funding was from new partners.
Grace then founded Grants With Grace Consulting to continue growing her work with nonprofits, and to provide prospect research, grant writing, and grants management services and quality, honest grant writing and consulting services to nonprofit organizations.
Grace also teaches and gives nonprofits the resources to help them through the grant-writing process.
Connect with Grace:
Quotables:
- “It gave me more confidence because I’m good at grant writing but I’m not that good of a salesperson, and the academy made up a lot of what I lacked in that area.”
- “It’s much easier to bump up your hours with a current client when you renew than to go out and get a new client.”
- “At least two people should look at every grant because you’re going to miss something when you spend so much time looking at something.”
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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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