{"id":585,"date":"2010-01-01T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-01-01T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:07:00","slug":"grant-writing-commitments-for-the-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Grant Writing Commitments for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, I call them commitments<\/b><\/i>, rather than resolutions. There’s something more permanent about a commitment. If you keep your commitments to yourself the way you should be keeping them with others, they will last long beyond January.\u00a0 They will become part of you.<\/p>\n

Here are several ideas for commitments for the new year to fire up your grant writing:<\/p>\n

1) Make time for grant seeking<\/b>. Grant seeking takes more time than you think, especially if you do it right. Doing a quick search at grants.gov<\/a> or The Foundation Center<\/a> is good (although that takes time, too), but the payoff really <\/i>comes when you take the time to dig deeper. We have written a FREE white paper on grant seeking and grant research.\u00a0 Send a message if you’d like to see it.\u00a0 In any event, schedule some time at least several days a week to work on grant seeking.
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2) Plan ahead for what you need.<\/b> Take a look at your strategic plan and your organization’s needs and make some decisions about what you need and the next steps for you.\u00a0 That will help target your search. You’ll also need to gather organizational data.\u00a0 Start now.\u00a0 Of course, what you’ll really need is time.\u00a0 Schedule it.\u00a0 Yes, put it in your calendar.\u00a0 Time to look for grants.\u00a0 Time to write.
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3) Give yourself time to write.<\/b>\u00a0 If you’re working a full-time job, time is what you have the least of.\u00a0 You’re busy doing your job.\u00a0 However, if you don’t make time to write, you’ll never get the success you want.\u00a0 Schedule the time.\u00a0 Close your door.\u00a0 Don’t take any calls.\u00a0 Make it a priority.
4) Make the time to learn more about the art and the craft of grant writing.<\/b> Read some books about grant writing (check out the sidebar for some of my suggestions).\u00a0 Become a member of grantgoddess.com<\/a> and take advantage of the many learning resources there. I don’t care how good you are or how successful you have been, the only way to get even better is to keep learning.
5) Go the extra mile.\u00a0<\/b> When you’re working on a deadline, there’s the tendency to take short cuts here and there. You skip an explanation or two.\u00a0 You don’t take the time to make that extra chart or graph.\u00a0 You get by with one less revision. Unfortunately, in grant writing, that’s a recipe for failure.\u00a0 This year, commit to yourself to go the extra mile with each and every project.\u00a0 Treat each one like your livelihood depends on it (because it just might!).
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Yes, I call them commitments, rather than resolutions. There’s something more permanent about a commitment. If you keep your commitments to yourself the way you should be keeping them with others, they will last long beyond January.\u00a0 They will become part of you. Here are several ideas for commitments for the new year to fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,138,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commitment","category-resolutions-new-year","category-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p353rU-9r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}