Grant Writing Workshop

This 2-day workshop covers how to write successful grant proposals from start to finish and how to locate and track relevant grant opportunities. Federal, state, local, and foundation grants are covered. Beginning and experienced grant writers from city, county and state agencies, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, K-12, colleges and universities are encouraged to attend.

Day One Agenda

• Understand the critical difference between organizational needs and the needs of the community
• Develop your credibility as an applicant
• Research, measure, and objectively articulate the community need to be addressed with the proposed grant
• Measure impacts and define success
• Present and justify your method for addressing the need, why you’ve chosen this method over other possible methods, and overcome the inherently subjective nature of methods

Day Two Agenda

• Develop your plan for grant evaluation – both subjective and objective – and integrate your plan with the grant maker’s required evaluation and reporting system
• Collaborate with your fiscal affairs, grants managers, and leadership to develop a budget and analyze cash flow, indirect and admin cost caps, and determine if you can afford to get this grant before submitting an application
• Summarize your request for that impossibly small summary opportunity on the standard federal cover page or the one/two page foundation request
• Locate and track relevant grant opportunities from federal, state, and local government sources, private foundations, and corporate giving programs
• Allocate and forecast proposal team workload before the RFP is released
• Dissect the RFP, research enabling legislation, understand the “spirit and intent” of the grant program, define technical assistance contacts and the need for open and honest communication.

CEU credit available. Registration includes: two days of instruction, workbook, and access to the Alumni Resource Center of tools, helpful discussions, and sample grant proposals. Lunch is on your own both days.

Tuition is $495; nonprofits receive a $30 discount with the code NPO

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