You’ll learn how to fill your client calendar—whether you want a few clients or a full roster.
We’ll show you how to build a strong client pipeline through cold outreach, networking, social media, email, and free trainings. You’ll learn how to keep prospects moving from awareness to discovery calls to signed contracts—and how to make sure there are always folks in every stage of that process.
We’ll also share a variety of client-getting strategies so you can choose the ones that best match your strengths and your schedule.

You'll learn the legal aspects of setting up your business for success and keeping yourself protected as your business grows.

We have a guest speaker, Dave Kurlinkus, an attorney licensed in the state of Illinois who has represented clients in business law for the last 30 years. We worked together on developing two contract templates for you to use for your business.

You'll learn how to set up your business depending upon your circumstances and needs, revise our client contract templates, and understand the legalities of grant writing consultant and client relationships.

We reframe productivity through a feminist, anti-capitalist lens. Rather than hustle and grind, we promote feel-good productivity. You'll explore a values-based approach to work that centers joy, rest, and sustainability, while still making meaningful progress on your goals. Through five key strategies—redefining success, knowing yourself, making a feel-good plan, staying in your lane with support, and regularly revisiting your approach—you’ll walk away with practical tools to design a workflow that actually feels good and works.

The AI Grants Hub

We spent the last year designing and testing the AI Grants Hub with real clients to be a comprehensive workspace that streamlines and optimizes your entire grant writing and management process. This powerful toolkit combines strategic planning, AI writing support, and project management to help organizations secure and manage funding more effectively.

Key Components of the Grants Hub

Standard Grant Narrative and Program Homebase Templates: A centralized location to organize all your organizational and program-specific information, making it easily accessible when writing grant applications.
Grant Strategy and Task Trackers: Interconnected databases for managing your grant pipeline, deadlines, budget needs, team responsibilities, and funder relationships that can be customized to track as much or as little as you need.
Grant Writing Systems: Proven frameworks and methodologies to develop winning grant proposals and compelling outreach materials, leveraging the power of NotionAI.
Video Tutorials: Step-by-step guidance on implementing grant strategies and maximizing the hub's features.

Benefits of Using the Grants Hub

Increased Efficiency: Centralized resources and templates reduce time spent searching for information and recreating materials.
Better Organization: Track all grant-related activities, deadlines, and tasks in one place.
Improved Collaboration: Team members can easily access and contribute to grant projects, ensuring smooth workflow.
Strategic Approach: Transform grant-seeking from reactive to proactive with structured systems and planning tools.
Quality Control: Standardized processes and templates help maintain consistency and professionalism across all grant applications.
Responsive AI tools: Draft sophisticated and specific grant applications using NotionAI and your curated archive of information.

Whether you're working with a nonprofit organization, educational institution, or government or tribal organization, the AI Grants Hub provides the structure and tools you need to develop a successful and sustainable grants program for them. You'll get both the template and an example hub. If you sign up for work shadowing, you'll also see us create one for a real-life client.

The Advanced Boss Training Library

These trainings are accessible to all students on Day 1. There are 24 advanced trainings (1 hour each), and you get to attend one new live advanced training every month. Here are a few of the trainings in the library:

How to Scale to $1 Million and Beyond like a Boss with Elizabeth Burrows
How to Subcontract like a Boss
How to Transition into Grant Management like a Boss with Dr. Zen Parry
How to Manage Your Finances like a Boss
How to Make Your First or Next $100k like a Boss
How to Build Rest into Your Biz with Jordan Maney
How to Invest like a Boss with Ange Matthews

Grant Writing Made Easier

Learn to write grants with our grant writing course, Grant Writing Made Easier, which is included in your Boss Club membership.

This mega-course includes training on how to find and evaluate grants, write a standard grant narrative, use AI to elevate all parts of your grantseeking, conduct strategic planning, get organizations grant ready, and get nonprofit teams organized. This course is beneficial to all levels of grant writer, from beginner to advanced.

Grant Writing Made Easier is worth 23.5 CFRE Continuing Education points.

AI Training & Templates

We love technology. It's a big part of how we operate and is part of what we studied in graduate school. That's why we are among the leading experts in implementing AI for grant writing. We came out with the first course on the subject and have stayed on top of developments in order to keep our students ahead of the curve.

We provide you with the most updated info, templates, and guides so that you don't have to make sense of what's going on yourself but can implement top strategies now.

Supporter

I have earning power due to my racial privilege, class background, level of education, gender identity, age, ability etc. (Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, we ask you to recognize this privilege.)
I easily meet all of my basic needs.
I make all mortgage/rent/utilities payments with relative ease.
I have investments, savings, and/or inherited money.
I have access to family money and/or resources in times of need.
I often have expendable income.
I take trips or vacations without substantial financial burden.

“I’m going to make times two what I’m making in my job as a professor . . . . More people need to hear that and to see that it is possible!

If you’re thinking about making the jump, Krista is the very best of the very best . . . Everything she does is of quality, so you’re going to be in good hands. She will guide you along the way. You do your part. . . If you show up, if you believe in yourself, if you implement anything that she says, you are going to get some results, for sure.

It’s already lonely to be on this journey in the first place… But you have this community to compare notes with, to ask questions to, to encourage each other. That is gold.”

-Dr. Omotola Akinsola, The Funding Magnet

“One of the things I gained was more confidence [to charge her new client instead of doing it for free]. . . . Before when I was writing [grants] I didn't ask for anything.

If you want to get your business’s foundation well-established, the Boss Club is an excellent place to start. You’re not going to second-guess anything you’re doing during the set-up of your business, and it’s going to ease your mind that you have a well-established business to move forward with.

It is a very good class to take. It eases the stress . . . . There are other classes I’ve taken on building a business where they only give you so much information and you’ve got to figure a lot of it out yourself. But with you, it’s very helpful.

You give step-by-steps…You give us the ability to be more confident and feel better as we’re setting up our own business.”

-Patience Frisby

“I feel like Boss Club was the stepping stone for me to get to the place that I’m in now. Now, I feel like I’m centered. My feet are planted firmly, and I’m ready to go.

I want to speak to anyone who might come after me, who feels like I can’t get it together.

I don’t even know that you realize what you put together. It goes so far beyond grant writing. It’s ridiculous. . . . It infused my life with so many things that I didn’t even realize I’d gotten from Boss Club until the last few weeks.

I swear on everything that I love, that Krista, you created something that was so incredible. You’re giving so many people access to freedom, not even just financially or freedom from the 9-5 workplace, you’re giving people freedom in their lives.

I was so excited for all of the women in the club whose businesses were just exploding. It’s so inspirational.

[I know] the world needs what I’m going to do."

-Kyoni Cummings

"An awesome place to network with driven & inspirational bosses!

After joining the club I now have a template to use to better build out my grant writing services particularly & 2 new clients.

The most valuable lesson I learned were strategies to implement on how not to under sell myself, business & skills.

My favorite things about the club was the recorded sessions, workbooks & community of amazing people.

I would highly recommend this club to anyone looking to structure a profitable grant writing business.

I absolutely enjoyed the club. It was both educational & fun!"

- Shametria Richardson

She’s Favored Network

"I had very little “formal” experience. I had the writing skills down, but never knew where to go to learn all of the other skills I needed - like budgeting and contracts!

One of the most important lessons I learned was how to break each project down and establish a structured timeline to stay on track.

Everyone is so encouraging and easy to talk to and I love that! It gave me so much more confidence to “just do it!”

I’m more confident in telling potential clients I write grants.

Take this course before you start your grant writing business!"

- Angie Bates

The Write CEO

"I've gone from feeling like no one would pay for my grant writing expertise to developing a price structure and feeling confident about the prices and list of services I offer.

The information, format, and structure allow new or seasoned grant writing professionals access to other accomplished professionals who offer priceless details regarding their journey, pitfalls, success and perspectives. I also loved the camaraderie.

I enjoyed the process and I'm looking forward to applying the knowledge and strategies as I build my business."

- Sheila Fleming

WesCourt Advisors

Your Marketing Materials

I'll share how to navigate the beast that is online and organic marketing. I provide you with a high-converting lead page template that you can then customize and publish to your website or use as your website. You'll create your own SM page on the platform of your choice, and I'll share essential SM templates with you to use to promote your biz. You'll also write promotional emails using our templates to get people interested not just in your work, but you. (You'll learn to be liked and loved because people buy from people they like and love.)

Your Client Pipeline Materials

You'll create your own customer journey map using our template, so you know exactly how you'll move customers from awareness to loyalty. You'll receive our discovery call questionnaire so that you can vet prospects before getting on a call with them. Once you do take a discovery call, you can use our discovery call script and slides that you can revise to move clients from consideration to acquisition. Then once you sign your client using our proposals and contracts, you can use our

client onboarding templates to make the process smooth for everyone.

I have helped my grant writing clients win tens of millions in grants over the last 9 years, and my team and I still work with a full roster of clients to this day. I am proud to have built a business with longevity and a record of success.

It's important that I continue to work with clients and grow my consulting business while I teach you to do the same. It keeps me up-to-date with the realities of grant writing consulting, allows me to test new strategies on my own business before teaching them to my students, and keeps my skills sharp.

I'm an expert in the teaching of writing and the arts of persuasion. I earned my Ph.D. in English-Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies from The Ohio State University in 2015. I spent over 7 years teaching writing in universities before creating my online grant writing courses.

I created Grant Writing Boss Club to help grant writers like you serve the greater good while also creating financial stability for yourself, your team, and your clients.

Krista

What Makes Grant Writing

Boss Club Different?

1. It's taught by trained educators. Yes, I think that makes a huge difference. Being a successful expert doesn't also make you a great teacher. I have a Ph.D. in teaching rhetoric and writing and taught university writing for over seven years. My co-leader, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, has the same education plus even more years of experience teaching university writing. We know a few things about curricular design and pedagogy.

2. It's grounded in equity and justice. We believe in and actively fight for racial, ethnic, economic, gender, LGBTQ+, and disability equity. Our instructional content and guest experts reflect this focus. Our pricing is on a sliding scale that is meant to counter capitalist, sexist, and racist structures that our country is built upon. If that makes you uncomfortable or you think it's wrong, this is not the spot for you.

3. It features guest experts. I lined up a whole bunch of experts in finance, law, marketing, consulting processes, and business mindset to give you the best education you can get. So you're not just getting my expertise and perspectives, you're getting access to a bunch of pros.

4. It's results-oriented. I'm here to help you succeed, i.e. make that money and keep those clients happy. I don't want you just to learn a bunch of stuff and never use it. We'll take action and make it happen during office hours.

5. It's pleasurable. Ultimately, I think everything you do as a business owner should have some element of pleasure. If not, why are you doing it? From the content, to the design, to the personalities you'll encounter, this experience will be a pleasurable one. Guaranteed.

6. It's accessible. We provide multiple price points for multiple identities and economic situations. We don't just talk about equity, we do it. We also provide multiple ways to access the course lessons, including captions on all videos and the content taught in the videos written out in the workbooks.

Most nonprofits can't afford to keep a full-time or even part-time grant writer on staff.

You might think, if they need a grant writer, won't they just hire one? Hiring staff takes even more money than contracting work out.

Usually, the biggest factor is affordability. A nonprofit can commit to several thousand dollars to hire you to write a few grants, but they can't afford the $70k+ needed to hire and provide benefits for a staff grant writer.

This doesn't mean you should work for a low rate that can't keep you and your family fed. (Don't worry, I teach you how to determine your rate in the workshops).

It means you'll be writing fewer grants than a staff grant writer or you'll just be doing more specialized work.

For example, a nonprofit might hire you to conduct a grant search and evaluation, then take over on the writing themselves. That's still several thousand dollars in your pocket! Or maybe they ask you to revise a grant draft after they've already completed the bulk of the work.

(Again, I teach you how to pitch your services and help a client understand how you can most benefit them in the club.)

So, now is the time for you, as a freelance grant writer or grant writing consultant, to go all in.

What will we learn in Grant Writing Boss Club? Is this right for me?

-You should either already have some grant writing experience or advanced writing skills in another field that you can easily translate into grant writing skills. We don't believe in throwing people into consulting if they don't have the writing skills to do it successfully.

-You should be ready to take the time and mental space to attend the monthly trainings, grant writing workshops, and office hours (or at least watch the recordings if you can’t be there live). You can expect to do at least 1 hour of work each week.

-You should be willing to be engaged in a community of folks who are there to support you and get your feedback as well. Showing up to the trainings, workshops, and office hours as often as you can and communicating with your peers on our Mighty Networks community is important to your success.

-You should be ready to do some inner work to get yourself in the right mindset to succeed in your business. This is absolutely the most challenging but most essential part of doing this work. We’ll be there to help you.

Do you offer scholarships or other payment plans?

We offer equity pricing, which includes the payment categories of BIPOC, Ally, and Supporter. Members self-identify with their appropriate category based on the definitions listed on the course info page, and we don't ask for any sort of “proof."

If you need a payment plan, click the button to request an invoice that will allow you to pay via Klarna's payment options. We no longer handle payment plans ourselves.

If you apply the lessons, complete the materials for the course, and put yourself out there, the course will more than pay for itself. The Return on Investment can be high if you put in the work.

You can do good & make good money

Grant Writing Boss Club

is for you if

If any of that sounds like you, I invite you to explore Grant Writing Boss Club.

Grant Writing Boss Club

When You Join

How to Make Your

First $10k

First $32k

Your Business Foundations

Build a Client Pipeline

Get Legit

Sign Clients

Do the Work

Get the Boss Mindset

Build Wealth

Create a Team

Create Passive Income

The AI Grants Hub

Key Components of the Grants Hub

Benefits of Using the Grants Hub

Daily: Online Chat

Weekly: Power Hour Co-working

The Boss Club Directory

AI Training & Templates

Our AI Grant Writer

Tech Discounts

New! Work Shadowing Program

Job Board

Grant Writer Certification

Total Club Value $32,000

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Our Anti-Oppressive

Sliding Scale Pricing

Grant Writing Boss Club

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A Glimpse of A Month

in Boss Club

Here's What You'll Create

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Your Service Sheet

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Your Marketing Materials

03

Your Client & Subcontractor Contracts

04

Your Client Pipeline Materials

05

Your Client Work Processes

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Your Budget, Cashflow, and Profit First Spreadsheets

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Your Boss Manifesto

Meet Your Grant Writing Boss

Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D.

What Makes Grant Writing

Boss Club Different?

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Boss Club Members

Heather Scaled Her &

Her Husband's Businesses

Sandy Got 10 Clients

by Word-of-Mouth

Zen Says We're Her #1 Grant Writing

with AI Resource

Danette Shares How She 4x'ed

Her Income Using AI for Grant Writing Strategies

Learned in Grant Writing Boss Club

Kyoni Says Boss Club Goes Beyond Grant Writing and is Life-Changing

Sheila Says No Other Program

Offers What We Offer

Justina says her Ph.D. in Nonprofit Management Didn't Offer Anything Close to What We Taught

(& It's Amazing!)

Patience Gained the Confidence and Systems to

Take Her First Paying Client

After Only Doing Pro-Bono

Grant Writing For Years

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