How is The Grant Plant compensated?
The Grant Plant will come to an agreement with your agency’s leadership and sign a service agreement and statement of work with your organization’s legal signatory. Some of the The Grant Plant’s services are charged in a flat rate fee. Other services are charged on an hourly basis. No portion of a received grant should ever be paid out as a commission payment to a grant writer (i.e. writer’s payment contingent on receiving a grant) because it is dangerous for a nonprofit’s reputation. The reason is that foundations do not want to pay for a nonprofits grant writer fees. A grant (or any donation) is given to any nonprofit because the money is intended to go to meet the non rofits program or project’s goals, not to a consultant.the grant writer expense. As all professional fundraisers, professional grant writers are providing a service, as a lawyer or an accountant does. Also, grant writing is usually a long term fundraising strategy requiring more time than it takes to form and mail one
The Grant Plant will come to an agreement with your agency’s leadership and sign a service agreement and statement of work with your organization’s legal signatory. Some of the The Grant Plant’s services are charged in a flat rate fee. Other services are charged on an hourly basis. No portion of a received grant should ever be paid out as a commission payment to a grant writer (i.e. writer’s payment contingent on receiving a grant) because it is dangerous for a nonprofit’s reputation. The reason is that foundations do not want to pay for a nonprofit’s grant writer fees. A grant (or any donation) is given to any nonprofit because the money is intended to go to meet the nonprofit’s program or project’s goals, not to a consultant. The grant writer expense. As all professional fundraisers, professional grant writers are providing a service, as a lawyer or an accountant does. Also, grant writing is usually a long term fundraising strategy requiring more time than it takes to form and mail o
