One the main services I provide to my nonprofit clients is popularly called "grant writing" although, technically, it's not accurate. What I do is more properly called "grant proposal writing."
The people who write the grants are the foundation officers who [hopefully] respond to my proposals. And, apparently, some of them take exception to people such as myself calling our profession "grant writing."
Personally, I believe that this is one of those cases where common usage wins over linguistic perfection. When I say that I have several clients for my grant writing services, it is understood by all that these are nonprofits looking for funds, not foundations looking to distribute money.
When I have tried to be liguistically correct and tell people I was a proposal writer, on the other hand, it has caused confusion until I explained it more clearly as grant writing.
So, I will continue to abuse the language and call myself a "grant writer." I sincerely apologize if that offends you.
Tags: grant writing, grantwriter, nonprofit, foundations
What Exactly Is a Grant Writer?
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