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The Storyteller

writing path

You put words on paper and the paper does the work. Proposals, grants, newsletters. That is how money gets raised.

The receipts that point here

• Write a proposal, report or RFP response that won the work.
• Write the email or flyer that gets people to show up.

Job titles to search

• Grant writer
• Proposal writer
• Communications lead

The work that fits

• Grant writer or development consultant for nonprofits

  Per-project, deadline-driven and fully remote.

  How it starts: Low cost to start

  First step: Ask a nonprofit you love which grant they never get around to applying for, and offer to draft it.

• Proposal writer or bid consultant for contractors and agencies

  Project-based and fully remote.

  How it starts: Low cost to start

  First step: Find one public RFP in your city and read it start to finish.

• Hyperlocal newsletter publisher selling sponsorships to neighborhood businesses

  You own the schedule; write when the kids are down.

  How it starts: Low cost to start

  First step: Write issue zero: five things happening in your town this week. Send it to ten people.

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