RE: Does grant writing fall under technical writing?

["Michael L. Wyland" <michael -at- sumptionandwyland -dot- com>]

To all:

1)  Yes, grant writing (more properly "grant application 
writing(preparation)" - funders, not applicants, "write grants") is 
often done on a freelance or consulting basis.

2)  As a paid staff position, grants work is often seen as an 
entry-level or mid-level fundraising position.  Senior fundraising 
positions focus on major gifts, endowments, bequests, and the like.

3)  Compensation for freelance or consulting grants work may based on 
an hourly or daily rate, a "scope of work" quote based on the 
particular circumstances of a situation; or a flat fee.  My firm has 
always used a scope of work approach.

4)  There are grants consultants out there who charge a percentage of 
the grant award.  There are others who charge a fee that includes a 
bonus of some sort should the application be funded.  All the various 
fundraising professional societies agree that these arrangements are 
unethical and should be avoided.  These societies' members agree not 
to engage in these practices as a condition of membership and/or certification.

5)  While percentage-based and contingency compensation for grants 
preparation is not, in itself, illegal, it is a gateway to other 
practices that are either crimes or torts.  The most common of these 
practices is where the client that proposes that the contingency or 
percentage fee be paid for with grant funds.  Since almost no grant 
funders permit such payments for grant preparation to be included in 
a grant's budget, the applicant (client) and consultant are tempted 
to falsify the grant application's budget and activities to hide the 
consultant's fee.


Michael L. Wyland
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