Becoming a Grant Writer – an Ongoing Journey!

By Roger Magnus

As a nonprofit prospect researcher helping nonprofits find new foundation funders, I realized in the fall of 2024 that I needed to add grant writing as a service to my business.  For a while, I had seen nonprofit postings requiring consultants with both grant research and writing experience, and felt I was missing opportunities without the writing piece. From speaking with other grant writing consultants, I learned that grant writers often are asked to write an updated grant application periodically to the same funder – an element of sustainability that my grant research projects lacked.