The Ripple Effect with A Plus Grants

We made it to Episode 2, which means nobody stopped us after the first one.

Today Jamy and Christine talk about the sentences that make grant writers immediately nervous—phrases like “the grant is due Friday,” “we already bought it, can the grant reimburse us?”, “we don’t know how much it costs yet,” and “we just need you to write it.”

They dig into why last-minute requests, missing budgets, no match, chasing the biggest dollar amount, and assuming “winning the grant means we’re done” create so much stress. They also share what actually helps: realistic timelines, having your numbers and engineering ready, knowing when bigger isn’t better, and why the real work often starts after you get the award.

None of these situations mean your project is doomed. They just mean the earlier you call, the more options you usually have.

Join Jamy and Christine from A Plus Grants as they keep making ripples—and occasionally break into a light sweat over common grant phrases.

In the first episode of The Ripple Effect, Christine and Jamy take listeners behind the scenes of launching A Plus Grants. They share how the idea started, the early wins and missteps, what it’s actually like working together as friends and co-owners, and the lessons they’re learning while building a grant-writing business from the ground up.

In this quick clip from the first episode, Christine and Jamy share their hilariously mismatched first impressions of each other and a few wild stories from the grant-writing world (including pink shirts no one could see and calls with DJs). Two former teachers, one business, a lot of heavy lifting… and now a podcast. What could go wrong?