Special Dine-In Episode #1 with Allison Welch: Creating the “Of Course” Factor in Grant Writing

Thank you.

That's great.

And I have really appreciated your responses so far.

And we started our grant development careers probably around the same time.

And a couple of decades ago, there were not a lot of resources available for us.

It was the baptism by fire method.

You just get in there, write the proposal, and hope that it's funded.

But we have certainly learned a lot along the way that The grant profession is not that old of a profession.

Maybe the 60s or 70s is when people started, you know, seeing it as a profession and doing grant writing for work versus volunteering or in other ways.

So you saying that there weren't, you know, your process was seeking out testing.

for this is really great.

And that I loved when you said that the funding organizations, and we know this, I guess it was just the way you said it, funding, they're funding organizations that create change, not the organizations.

And the organization enters the story as it answers the question, the what question, what needs are there in the community? And determining or communicating why they're the right organization to meet the need is super important.

We know that.

It was just the way you said that.

So I'm really looking forward to the book as well.

It seems like a good portion of it might be about purpose and not hustling.

like we often end up doing when there's a deadline and we've got to get this done.

So your book argues against the deficit narrative in proposals.

And I know that you wrote a blog post recently.

So I read that because it's very interesting about changing the language from deficit narrative to outcome narrative where people's lives are impacted.

But what does that look like on the page? And so what should grant professionals do instead?