More Reasons to Join GMN

1. Perform Better in Your Current Job

GMN documents best practices, provides benchmarking information, and shares innovative approaches that can help you to manage your grants and comply with legal and tax requirements in the most efficient and effective way possible. We develop and share methods, including technology integration, which saves time and money in the management of your grants while maintaining the quality of your relationships with applicants and grantees.
 

2. Connect to a Professional Community

GMN brings together grants management professionals from across the nation to discuss important trends and share best practices and collective knowledge. You will join a peer community that offers advice and problem solving support, ideas, and resources to enhance your job performance and make you the grantmaking expert at your organization.
 

3. Build Your Résumé

Think about your last performance review or an attractive job posting that floated across your desk. Were there skills you lacked or were less confident about? Volunteering with GMN can help you improve upon your existing skills or even better, gain new ones! Develop leadership, strategic planning, and financial management experience through board service. Improve your communications skills through writing newsletter articles and speaking at meetings. Lead a GMN project that directly improves the efficiency and effectiveness of grantmaking. Whatever your interest, GMN can help you build your résumé.
 

4. Promote Your Profession

GMN understands and promotes the importance of grants management to the overall success of a grantmaking organization. We work to address the overall effectiveness of the philanthropic sector by encouraging streamlined grantmaking practices. This national leadership raises the profile of all grants managers by highlighting the positive impact of good grants management practices on grantees.