Grant Writing Class

Join this 2-day grant writing workshop for beginning and experienced grant writers to learn how to find and write grants.  

Day One

• 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; define success now.
• Present and justify your method for addressing the need; why you've chosen this method over other possible methods; overcoming the inherently subjective nature of methods.

Day Two

• Develop your plan for grant subjective and objective evaluation; integrate your plan with the grant maker's required evaluation and reporting system.
• Develop a budget and analyze cash flow; indirect and admin cost caps; determine if you can afford to get this grant before submitting an application; collaborating with your fiscal affairs, grants managers, and leadership.
• Summarize your request for that impossibly small summary opportunity on the standard federal cover page or the 1-2 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 work load before the RFP is released.
• Dissect the RFP; research enabling legislation; understand the "spirit and intent" of the grant program; technical assistance contacts and the need for open and honest communication.

Participants receive two days of instruction, workbook, and access to the Alumni Forum (tools, helpful discussions and more than 200 sample grant proposals).

Nonprofits receive $30 off registration with discount code NPO. Seating is limited; online reservations are necessary. Tuition payment is not required at the time of enrollment.

Register now.