Create A Career You Love.
Craving more meaning, pay, and freedom in your work?
Congrats! You’re in the right place.
Exploring Grant Writing As a New Career
Get into grant writing without prior experience. You’ll earn and learn to land your first paying clients, build up your portfolio, and then decide what’s next. Whether that’s freelancing to replace your 9-5 or landing an in-house job, your career pivot starts here.
Get Your Free TrainingWorking In-House Grant Writer
Win more grants, while writing less. Learn how to get information back from slow colleagues and establish authority when not technically given it. Build the track record that earns you a pay raise reflecting the value you bring to your organization.
Get Your Free TrainingExperienced Grant Writer, New to Business
Thinking about breaking out on your own? Awesome. We’ll skip the newbie grant writing education and jump right into how to find great clients to replace your 9-5 income in a year or less.
Get Your Free TrainingAlready Consulting
(Less than $250K/year)
You’ve got work, but don’t know where your next client is coming from or how to update your pricing. It’s time to make your business sustainable. Grow your revenue without working longer hours and build a business that loves you back.
Get Your Free TrainingSocial-Impact Consultant
(More than $250k/year)
You have a successful consulting agency, but want to be around peers figuring out the same growth and staffing you are, while staying sane. If that’s you, say hello in an email.
You’ve got dreams.
We’ve got data.
Not to mention hundreds of member testimonials, spotlights, & wins.
Read the Reviews$12M+
made by members in our programs.
85%
of our students earn back their investment in 6 months.
2k+
students have already earned their first $15k.
6.6 Months
on average for members to land a new job.
$1.6B+
in grant funding won by our students.
Here’s what we know about you.
Whether you’re in education, nonprofit, corporate, government, healthcare, or a mission-adjacent profession…
You care about doing work that matters.
To be paid fairly. To not only afford life (whew, especially lately!), but also those oh-so reasonable dreams on your vision board.
You’re after freedom in all senses of the word. Location freedom. Time freedom. Financial freedom.
A nagging inner voice keeps gnawing at you to explore a new pathway.
Sometimes there’s nothing quiet about it.
Life throws plot twists.
Whether it’s a health crisis or loss of someone you love.
Unexpected job loss. A crappy new boss. A culture at work that went south.
The promotion that didn’t change anything. That master’s degree that got you nowhere.
Divorce. Kids graduating. Retirement. An aging parent that needs you.
Whatever it is, something that was working simply no longer fits.
That’s exactly why we love grant writing so much. It’s a meaningful career that’s flexible and pays well.
With our coaching & community,
It’s Not Too Late
to reinvent yourself.
Let’s repurpose your existing skills into a new career that loves you back.
The Grant Writers Collective
Coaching
Community
Get Professional Grant Writer Certified
CFRE certification is the standard for ethical fundraising.
If you decide to seek your CFRE credential, curriculum in the Grant Writers Collective® earns you 91 continuing education credit hours! (As in, almost all the CEU’s you need to earn your CFRE - and our nearest competitor can only offer you 31 credits).
The Grant Professionals Certification Institute administered a nationally recognized Grant Professional Certified credential.
We are an approved Education Provider in the GPCI Accepted Education Program.
Get certified with the Collective and become eligible for referred work — nonprofits and organizations actively looking for grant writers come to us first, and certification puts you on the list.
It also opens doors with other Collective consultants and the agencies we regularly refer members to.
We also literally wrote the book on grant writing.
This book is everything needed to understand how the world of grants works. Learn how to find grants and write winning proposals. We answer the top 10 questions you ask us consistently and the 10 questions we wish you were asking.
It’s succinct, practical, and even fun to read.
Get Your Copy!Hey there!
We’re Meredith & Alex.
We help women — and cool guys — get paid fairly for work that matters.
If there’s one thing we are really passionate about (besides sequins and chocolate torte), it’s helping you build a life that was once only a dream.
Whether that’s surfing the beaches of Mexico while running your grant business from a van, a flexible part-time career as a busy mom, or rebuilding financially after divorce or a health crisis – we are here for it.
Our members tell us their lives have changed in every regard — not just financially. They’re learning to take time for self-care; or celebrating wins, often for the first time.
All we want for you is a career that gives you a great sense of purpose, while paying you fairly.
Get to know us — our podcast, YouTube channel, a LinkedIn DM — and you’ll see it. We’re all in on you. Obsessed with your success.
You bet on you. We’ll take care of the rest.
