Grant Writing Training

This workshop will educate ministers, church members and volunteers how to position their religious organization for mainstream grant seeking. From the renewed federal faith-based initiatives to foundation grantmakers, Dr. Bev Browning, author of Faith-Based Grants: Aligning Your Church to Receive Abundance and Grant Writing For Dummies will teach you how to find grant monies; how to make your organization more eligible to receive grant awards, and what you need to know and write in a winning grant application to both private and public sector grantmakers.  You will also be introduced to a long checklist of capacity-building steps that a potential grant applicant must be led through before entering the grant seeking arena for faith-based projects (ministries and community outreach).

Individuals attending this workshop will achieve the following learning objectives:

• Understanding of how to find and use grant databases on the Internet.
• Understanding of the characteristics of an eligible grant applicant (private and public sector funders).
• Understanding of how to find and incorporate critically needed service population demographics into your statement of need.
• Understanding of why it is important to have at least 10 or more community partners listed in your grant proposal and who your stakeholders are in the eyes of the funders.
• Understanding of how to organize a volunteer grant writing team among church or ministry members to reduce deadline-related stress.
• Understanding of the major narrative sections of a grant proposal and how to successfully write key sections with high review point values.