The Freelance Grant Writer Academy is the #1 Grant Writing and Nonprofit Business Acumen Program in the Industry.
Each part of the Academy is a simple process, even if you work a full-time job.
You get 12 months to do the curriculum, community, and coaching:
Learn the Legacy Skills of Grant Writing & Business Acumen
In the first 30 days, whether you are new to grant writing or experienced, you will increase your grant writing skills and understand how to strategize as a grant writer. In less than 15 months, Academy students have secured $88 Million+ in grant funding. Our grant skill training is the best in the industry.
SKILL #1 – GRANT WRITING
- 30-DAY MASTER GRANT TEMPLATE CHALLENGE: Within 30 days, you will learn our system of writing a grant. This is for new AND seasoned grant writers. You will understand how to write a FULL grant template. You will understand the full process of writing a grant AND the system of creating this template as a deliverable for your clients.
- GRANT TEMPLATES: We have 70+ short videos, templates, and more so you know 1) How to Find Grants, 2) How to Submit Grants, and 3) How to Write Grants. Even if you are a seasoned grant writer, you will benefit from our HUGE resource library of templates and samples of LOIs, MOUs, Logic Models, and more.
- UNLIMITED GRANT REVIEWS: We are the only program in the industry that offers UNLIMITED grant reviews and feedback on your grants. Having grant experts even review ONE grant is easily worth the entire price of the program. (We charge $2,500 for reviewing grants to the public. You get as many grants reviewed as you want throughout the entire program! This is a no-brainer).
SKILL #2 – BUSINESS ACUMEN
In the first 90 Days, you will get everything off the ground to start your freelance grant writing business- whether that is part or full-time. Within 15 months, Students inside the Academy have secured more than $2.2 Million+ in Revenue in their grant writing businesses. The Academy Business Acumen Skills Work..
- GRANT WRITING SERVICE OFFERS (CHANGE STATEMENT): You will identify WHO you want to serve and create packages that are ethical for your clients.
- VALUE-BASED PRICING METHOD: You will identify fair prices that give you profit and are fair for organizations that work with you. No more giving discounts or feeling like you aren’t valued.
- ETHICAL NONPROFIT SALES SYSTEM: No more feeling ‘sleazy’ with sales calls or people ghosting you. You will have a system to have the highest converting sales calls IN the industry.
- UNLIMITED BUSINESS REVIEWS: Want us to give you feedback on your website? How about giving you feedback on your pricing? Need input on how to structure your services? Want us to look over a retainer before sending it to a client? Anything to do with your business, we look over and give you personalized feedback. This alone is HUGE as it’s the little decisions in business that cause paralysis. When you have a coach – who has literally made a successful six-figure business as a freelance grant writer and worked with 100+ successful freelance grant writers – give you feedback, this will help you drive your business forward peacefully and quickly.
COACHING & COMMUNITY
This isn’t a ‘Do-it-by-yourself’ type of program. It’s a coaching program. We are successful freelance grant writers and teach you how to be, too. Plus, you get to interact with more than 100 other freelance grant writers.
- WEEKLY LIVE COACHING CALLS: Ask anything in our coaching calls from sales questions, dealing with troublesome clients, how to run a grant workshop, and more. We have space for you to bring any question related to your skills and business to these very powerful calls!
- PRIVATE PODCAST: Miss a Coaching Call? Log into your portal to watch the replay OR catch it on your podcast player, under a private podcast.
- DAILY SLACK CHANNEL: Did you win a grant? Or maybe you are wanting to know where to grab a logic model, feedback on a contract, or having imposter syndrome with posting your new company on LinkedIn. We got you. Our expert coaches will respond to any question, and it’s a great place to interact with your community.
- BE LISTED ON GW&F DIRECTORY: You can be listed on our Grant Writer for Hire Directory. Academy students have gotten clients just being listed on our website – even if they don’t have one!
- BONUS SKILL CURRICULUM: We also teach you how to get paid and facilitate Nonprofit Strategic Planning, a Nonprofit Wellness Audit, and a Grant Feasibility Study.
When you join the Freelance Grant Writer Academy, you get everything you need to replace your full-time job by working flexible hours while writing high-quality grants quickly.
Grant Writing & Funding (GWF) has a Global Movement to Secure $1 Billion in Grant Funding for Good and $30 Million in Grant Writing Businesses by 2030. Holly Rustick, CEO of GWF, is leading the movement; a world-renowned grant writer with 20+ years of experience, bestselling author, and business coach for new and seasoned grant writers to replace their full-time income writing grants part-time from home through her signature programs: the
Freelance Grant Writer Academy and the
Grant Professional Mentorship.
Rustick is the host of the top grant writing podcast “Grant Writing & Funding” and the author of the Bestselling book, The Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing. With an MA in International Political Economy, past-president of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce, serving on numerous boards of directors, Holly is also an unapologetic feminist. She lives on the island of Guam with her beautiful daughter, Isabella.
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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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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.