Good Grant writer Are Great Demand

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Should you pay for a grant writer? 

• The art of grant writing is really an overlooked
  skill. Many people think they can be a grant
  writer just by picking up a pen or these days in
  using a keyboard.
• Essentially if your organisation or business
  wants to lodge grant submissions either you have
  to have the skills in-house, you have to pay for
  a grant writer on a casual basis, you have to
  hire a full time or a regular grant writer or
  find a grant writer who will undertake the work
  for free.

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Developing in-house skills

• Grant writing is an easy skill to pick up. It is
  just a matter of filling out a form and writing a
  story about your project right?
• Effective grant writing requires a strategic
  approach, you need to be able to identify
  available opportunities for starters, you then
  have develop your project concepts to make them
  more fundable.
• There are a myriad of other issues to consider
  such as organising referees, developing budgets,
  coordinating partners etc .
• So if you decide to develop the skills in-house
  you really need to identify someone with great
  research and wordsmithing skills.

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• It will take a novice grant writer at least 6
  months to get yup to speed.
• So as you can see this is not an easy or cheap
  process.
• Good grant writers are in great demand so you
  could train someone up and have them poached by
  another organisation to start the process all
  over again.

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Hiring a Casual Grant Writer/Grant Writing
Consultant

• The casual grant writer might be a viable
  solution. However you need to find a highly
  skilled grant writer willing to work on a casual
  basis. Also you need to consider their
  availability.
• You might have a pressing need for a submission
  to be prepared but your grant writer might be
  working for someone else and not be available.
  Such is the nature of a casual/consultant.
• Also a casual grant writer/consultant will also
  charge a dearer hourly rate generally or cost you
  more that someone you engage who has regular
  work.

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Hiring a Full time/Regular Grant Writer/Grant
Writing Consultant

• A regular/permanent grant writer/grant writing
  consultant really is only really a viable option
  for larger organizations of if you have many
  projects that require funding.
• You can either find someone and employ them on
  salary or you can find a grant writing company
  and engage the services of a grant writer on a
  more regular basis under a retainer arrangement.
• Engaging a grant writing company such as Red Tape
  Busters ensures you have a grant writer at your
  disposal as and when you need them.

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• Engaging someone like us on a retainer basis
  ensures you will always have a quality consultant
  available and we can do everything from
  developing your projects, to finding grant
  opportunities, to matching grants to projects, to
  writing the submissions and everything that goes
  with that process, to assisting you acquit the
  funding opportunities.
• Essentially hiring a company to provide grant
  writing services means you only pay for the
  consultants when they are working for you there
  is no down time, no lost time, no sick leave or
  holidays you only pay for productive time.

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Free Grant Writer

• Now I am not aware of any free grant writers out
  there. I have heard some offer a non win no fee
  service but those grant writers will be starving
  and out of business in a few weeks or months.
• The sad reality of grant writing is that you can
  be the best organisation, with the best project
  with the best submission and still not receive
  funding so working on a no win no fee basis is a
  flawed strategy in the grant writing world.
• Free grant writers might be out there offering a
  pro bono service but again I havent heard of
  them. If good grant writers were out there and
  were free gee they would be busy!

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• Each organisation however is different with
  different needs but where organisations think
  that developing the skills an in-house is the
  cheapest and best way of winning grants
  seriously I suggest they should think again.
• Contact us at Red Tape Busters -
  http//www.redtapebusters.com/ should you require
  specialist grant or tender writing experience to
  help your organisation or business win grant
  funding or achieve successes with tenders.
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