Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success for Grant Writers

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WELCOME TO RED TAPE BUSTERS
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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers
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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• The art of grant writing is not rocket science
  but certainly a developed skill.
• There are many measures of success for grant
  writers and not all of the measures of success
  revolve around success in winning the funding.
• In this article I will discuss the different
  levels of success and what a quality grant writer
  should hope to achieve after writing a grant
  submission.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Personal Satisfaction
• One measure of success for the grant writer is
  personal satisfaction. This might seem strange
  but a grant writer or a quality grant writer at
  that should know if the grant submission they
  have just prepared is a quality job they can be
  proud of.
• Every job a grant writer prepares obviously
  should be a quality job and a driven grant writer
  will ensure they write submissions of the highest
  quality every time and take pride in their skill
  and professionalism.
• So personal satisfaction for a job well done
  should be a key driver for grant writers who want
  to succeed in the grant writing world.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Quality Document
• Another measure of success and satisfaction
  should be the production of a quality document as
  we touched on above.
• Many grant submissions require detailed and
  complex responses and this requires the grant
  writer to think outside the box, think
  strategically and to craft responses that address
  every bit of every question or every criteria.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Quality Document
• Being a great wordsmith will help but there are
  many great wordsmiths who dont have an
  attention to detail and dont fully understand
  how to write grant submissions which will be
  successful in attracting funding.
• A grant writer who produces high quality
  documents will obviously be successful in winning
  funding more often than not and they will take
  pride in the quality and content of their work.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Satisfied client/organization
• A successful grant writer will achieve
  satisfaction if the organization they are writing
  for or the client is happy with the quality of
  work prepared.
• To me this is vitally important in my business
  we must meet or exceed the clients expectations.
  If the client thinks gee I could have written
  that myself I need to be asking my Consultants
  how/why? There is no way any of our clients no
  matter how experienced they are in the grant
  writing world should be able to write as well as
  us, be as strategic as us and be as focused on
  attention to detail as we are.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Satisfied client/organization
• I want our clients to be wowed by what we do and
  think gee there is no way I could have written or
  prepared that!
• So yes a happy client or organization that loves
  the work you have completed is very satisfying
  and gives the grant writer a very warm feeling
  indeed.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Funding approved
• Obviously the ultimate satisfaction is the
  success of the grant submission in winning
  funding. Eventually success will be measured on
  results.
• So grant writing comes down to dollars and cents
  is the cost of chasing grants relative to the
  results and does the organization achieve a great
  return on investment with successful grants.
• The sad reality though is that great grant
  submissions, great projects and great
  organizations can miss out on funding through no
  fault of the quality of the submission however if
  you have a quality grant writer eventually this
  quality.

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers
Contact us at Red Tape Busters -
http//www.redtapebusters.com/ should you require
more information about this article or if you
require specialist grant or tender writing
experience to help your organization or business
win grant funding or achieve successes with
tenders.
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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

• Funding approved
• Grant writing can be very very rewarding and
  success can come in many forms to the grant
  writer.
• If you write quality documents then the rest
  will look after itself over time no doubt at
  all about that!

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers

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Grant Writing - A Personal Definition of Success
for Grant Writers
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