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This episode, Gwen Valentino explains how the freelance grant writing academy has helped her business, the value she gets from unlimited grant reviews, and why having a community of grant writers is so impactful.
Gwen Valentino is a grant administrator at NM Grant Writers, where she empowers local governments and nonprofit organizations by unlocking the full potential of grant funding.
Gwen explains how she’s streamlined her grant writing process through using the checklists and systems available in the freelance grant writing academy.
She also talks about how to get returning customers as a grant writer, the different types of organizations grant writers can work with, and the impact having a website has had on her grant writing business.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- The different types of organizations grant writers work with.
- How to get returning customers as a grant writer.
- The challenges of working with a 501(c)(12) and how to overcome them.
- The checklists you can use when writing grants for a nonprofit.
- Different systems you can follow to write grants.
- The value of getting a grant review.
- How having a website can help a freelance grant writer.
- Why having a community of grant writers is so impactful.
- The impact the freelance grant writing academy has had on Gwen’s business.
About Gwen Valentino
At NM Grant Writers, we believe in the transformative power of grants to propel local governments and nonprofit organizations toward their full potential. With a deep commitment to demystifying the grant application process, we offer expert guidance and personalized support at every step of the journey. We aim to turn visionary projects into impactful, funded realities, fostering community growth and innovation.
Our services range from preparing organizations to apply for grants with our Starter Package to enhancing grant efforts with the Essential Package and providing ongoing support with our Growth Package. With professionalism as our cornerstone, we navigate each grant journey with expertise, precision, and integrity.
In 2023 alone, our specialized experience in securing over $4 million in state, federal, and foundation grants speaks to our ability to bring knowledge to every project. Let NM Grant Writers transform your grant aspirations into funded successes.
Connect with Gwen:
Quotables:
- “Follow up with previous clients, they’re your best resource for returning customers.”
- “With systems in place you save the client more money because you can do things so much quicker. That’s why I love the academy so much because you set up so many systems that we can follow. I don’t have to think of anything at all I just follow the system and go.”
- “I tell my family I’m writing grants but they don’t really understand at all, but in the community you know they feel it. They know exactly what you’re going through, they know how hard writing a grant can be, and how invested you are in the outcome.”
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Holly Rustick
Leading the $1 Billion for Good Movement: By 2030, aspiring and seasoned grant writers inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy & Grant Professional Mentorship will 1) WIN $1 Billion in Grants, and 2) MAKE $30 Million in their Grant Writing Businesses. We are on our way already.
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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.
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.