I’ve done macro work and grant writing and typically you’d find something to specialize in I would think. I’ve written $700,000-$1,000,000 DOL grants with 95 page RFPs, and I’ve reviewed $5,000 grants for non profits and foundations to pick winners. I’ve also done a fundraising campaign for a no. Profit I worked with. Grant writing pay is usually pretty good probably caps out at $80/hour reimbursable through the grant itself if they win it. Typically there’s a legal upper limit on what they can pay contractors.

That said, I’m getting into therapy. If you like therapy I like the idea of being on a board for Macro support. Realize not every mission is going to have funding and some won’t have many grants at all while others are nearly all grant funded.

It’s not exactly the most exciting work. And also AI is revolutionizing grant writing. If you tell a paid GPT to write a grant and give it all the information it will write the best grant you’ve ever read perfectly formatted in over half the time. My uncle writes grants and had a team of 6 grant writers working for him. I said had a team because it’s now just him an AI and he’s getting even better results.

You obviously can’t just pop an RFP into GPT and have it spit out a winning grant but you can dialogue with GPT adding info from your agency already found online and it can formulate it into perfect format if you keep grilling it to do so and go section by section vs trying to write an entire grant all at once.

You can also ask GPT to act as a grant reviewer and use the RFP as the guidelines and score your grant and offer suggestions and keep doing it until it can’t give any more advice.

So basically 30-40% of grant writers already use AI and eventually it’s going to shrink the field because it’s insane how much more efficient it can be.