GPA MN North Star

Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Minnesota Northstar Chapter

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Q6: What changes has your organization/clients proposed for grant seeking/development/management in 2023? Or, do you WISH would change? #GrantChat

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Q6: What application pitfalls have you experienced that likely would have been avoided with pre-planning? #GrantChat

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Q3: What is the percentage of grants that you are involved in that are pre-planned? Have or do you want to change processes to impact the percentage? #GrantChat

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Q2: What do you think pre-planning (plan the plan) around grants means to your colleagues/clients? #GrantChat

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Q10: What has been some of the best advice that you have received that has helped you through some tough situations? Shout outs to great advice givers are welcome. #GrantChat

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Q9: What has working with grants, a field with high ‘failure rates’, taught you about resilience and/or the perceptions around success in grants? #GrantChat

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Q5: What positive result have you experienced due to a grant denial? #GrantChat

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Q3: Do you reach out to the grantmaker to get feedback about your grant application? If so, what kind of feedback have you received? #GrantChat

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Q1: Does your organization or do you factor in the number of grant applications that will fail? If so, why or why not? #GrantChat

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Q8: Unrequited Love - What do you do when the grantmaker doesn’t pick your proposal? #GrantChat

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Q7: Out of League - Have you secured a grant from a grantmaker that you thought was out of your organization's league? #GrantChat

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CIQ: What made you laugh this past week? #GrantChat

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Q3: Who is involved in the development of #GrantBudgets at the organization(s) you work with? Has that changed over time? If so, why? #GrantChat

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Q2: What are the key indicators that a grant opportunity is a fit for your organization/project? #GrantChat

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Q8: Your organization has been asked to be a subgrantee on an application. Leadership agrees. Later, you find that the lead agency’s proposal draft is not written well and, as a result, it will not get funded. #WWYD? #GrantChat

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Q2: The stress level and time commitment from the numerous overlapping grant deadlines in your current position is not sustainable. WWYD? #GrantChat

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Q4: How do you prepare staff and leadership for a site visit? #GrantChat

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CIQ: What hobbies do you enjoy during the winter months? #GrantChat

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Q10: Your organization had a good year raising funds and you are TREATED to a bonus for your work. Is it ethical? #GrantChat #GrantEthics

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Q9: You didn’t spend all of a grant’s funds and your executive director asks you to DIG UP other things that weren’t in the funder-approved proposal to bill to the grant. What do you do? #GrantChat #GrantEthics