Grant Writing & Funding

THE DOORS CLOSE TO THE FREELANCE GRANT WRITER ACADEMY ON OCTOBER 24TH. CLICK HERE TO JOIN FOR THE FINAL TIME IN 2025: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/academy


Changemakers in the Academy have made $3,470,242 (and growing every day) in their grant writing businesses so far in 2025. 🔥
They’ve also secured more than $48 million in funding for their clients. 🤑

How are they doing it?

They are utilizing our Grant and Funding frameworks built on 20+ years of experience.

One mantra that I have always had is, “Don’t be 100% reliant on grant funding.”

I might be known as the grant writing girlie, but I’ve actually helped organizations get a lot of diverse funding.

And I’m doing that today, and teaching others how to do it.

With the number of grants going out over the last four years, it was easy for us grant writers to lean into just writing grants. 

But it hasn’t always been like that. I’ve helped nonprofits with:

  • Corporate solicitations
  • Individual donor campaigns
  • Giving Tuesday campaigns
  • Social media and newsletters
  • Website copy
  • Presentations
  • Fundraising events
  • Consultations
  • And more

We have added these trainings into the Academy this year. 

And students have diversified their services for nonprofit clients. 

They aren’t just writing grants. They are doing other things.

These are called Funding Assets.

When you take your Master Grant Application and repurpose it into a Corporate Solicitation Letter, this is now a Funding Asset.
So for many Academy members, they are getting more clients this year because they take our Funding Asset training (and templates and resources) and then integrate them into their services.

Starting in November, we have our 6-Week Live Master Grant Template training where Academy members will learn how to create a Master Grant Template and how to repurpose it into other funding assets for their clients.

For more about the Freelance Grant Writer Academy, go to: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/academy


What is Grant Writing & Funding?

Quit your toxic nonprofit job and replace your full-time income while writing grants part-time, from home! Join our students in the Freelance Grant Writer Academy to create Financial Stability and Flexibility through writing grants for causes you are passionate about: https://grantwritingandfunding.com/freelance-grant-writer-academy

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.

If you are interested in replacing your full-time income while writing grants part-time from home (or from anywhere in the world!) join the Freelance Grant Writer Academy!

www.grantwritingandfunding.com.