At the time, she was mentoring enthusiastic, intelligent, early-career writers who wanted to use their skills to help nonprofits and wanted to figure out a way to serve organizations of all sizes—who desperately needed hard working, talented grant writers. Building and maintaining an effective grant writing program requires strategy and deep knowledge about nonprofits, program design, funders, and the sector—as well as massive attention to detail and lots of administrative work: tracking deadlines, and creating, compiling, and updating attachments.