Registration: 8:00 AM (Day one only)
Program Starts: 8:30 AM
Wrap-Up: 4:00 PM
Course materials, continental breakfast (coffee and pastries), refreshments included.
About this Workshop:
The comprehensive hands-on boot camp covers everything from learning grants-related terminology to learning how to conduct funding searches to actually writing the critical, high point review sections of a sure to win grant application/proposal. Bring “real” project idea and supporting documentation and complete 95% of your proposal narrative onsite! Laptops are welcome!
Course Description:
This course covers the essential grant seeking and grant writing strategies and skills required to successfully submit competitive corporate and foundation proposals, and state and federal grant applications for funding consideration. Emphasis is placed on researching and writing.
Topics:
- Finding Funding Sources and Best Practices
- Qualifying the Funding Opportunity and Your Organization
- Pros and Cons of Community Partnerships
- Considering Grant Writing Teams
- Reviewing Grant Writing Formats
- Describing Your Organization
- Describing Your Request to the Funder
- Developing a Compelling Problem Statement
- Writing a Program Design and Planning the Evaluation Process
- Demonstrating Sustainability
- Planning the Budget
- Recommended Attachments
- Finishing Touches
- Following Up
Who Should Attend:
- Any nonprofit or for-profit organization that has not -- or has! -- been successful at winning government grants and cooperative agreements
- Regional, state and local public safety and emergency management executives and senior staff
- State and local grants personnel interested in learning about updating grant writing skills
- Academia interested in funding for critical programs and projects
- Novice grant seeker to the seasoned grant writer that wants to increase their rate of funding success
Agenda:
Day 1:
Funding Sources and Finding Best Practices
- Discuss funding sources for grant narrative information
- Discuss sources identifying best practices
Qualifying the Funding Opportunity and Your Organization
- Discuss pre-planning checklist
Pros and Cons of Community Partnerships
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of including community partners in your pre-writing planning process, the writing process, the implementation process, and the evaluation process.
Considering Grant Writing Teams
- Discuss benefits of forming a grant writing team
- Discuss team roles
- Discuss maintaining team momentum
Reviewing Grant Writing Formats
- Discuss a letter of inquiry
- Discuss a letter proposal
- Discuss a concept paper
- Discuss a research project proposal format
- Discuss federal grant application formats
- Analyze grant announcement from government agency
Describing Your Organization
- Complete grant applicant description writing exercise
- Complete partnership exercise
- Discuss what constitutes boilerplate information
Describing Your Request to the Funder
- Prepare a purpose statement
Developing a Compelling Problem Statement
- Complete problem statement writing exercise
- Apply research skills to find current, relevant problem statement language.
Day 2:
Writing a Program Design and Planning the Evaluation Process
- Discuss the difference between a goal and an objective
- Complete global goals and measurable objectives writing exercise
- Complete logic model exercise
- Complete timeline chart
- Analyze the management plan
Demonstrating Sustainability
- List different ways to fund an idea for two or more years
- Discuss how a funder looks at the grant applicant's ability to continue grant-funded activities when grant monies are expended
Planning the Budget
- Complete project budget request worksheet
- Complete project in-kind and cash match worksheet
- Complete merged project budget request form
- Discuss supplementing versus supplanting
Recommended Attachments
- Identify appropriate attachments to support grant request
- Discuss how to organize attachments to facilitate funder's review and determination process
Finishing Touches
- Complete a proposal package checklist
- Discuss how to create aesthetic appeal to a grant reviewer
Following Up
- List the critical organizational and housekeeping steps once a grant request has been mailed to the funder
- Discuss why grant proposals are rejected and how to handle a rejection letter
- Discuss how to retool a grant application for resubmission to other types of funders
*Agenda is subject to change.
About Your Speaker:
Dr. Beverly A. Browning has been a grant writing consultant for units of municipal government, faith-based organizations, school districts, colleges, social and human service agencies, and other nonprofit organizations for two decades. She has assisted clients and trainees throughout the United States in receiving awards of more than $200 million.
Dr. Browning is the author of over two dozen grants-related publications, including Grant Writing For Dummies™ (2001 and 2005, Wiley.com), Grant Writing for Educators (2004, Solution-Tree.com), How to Become a Grant Writing Consultant (2001 and 2005, BBA, Inc.) Faith-Based Grants: Aligning Your Church to Receive Abundance (2005, BBA, Inc.), and Winning Strategies for Developing Grant Proposals (2006, Thompson.com). Browning’s newest book, Perfect Phrases for Grant Proposals, published by McGraw-Hill, can be purchased at www.amazon.com.
Registration Fee:
- Government attendees: $995
- Industry (includes government contractors): $1095 per person
Registration includes:
Books:
-Browning, B. (2006). Grant Writing For Dummies CD (Second Edition) Harper Audio or Grant Writing For Dummies – Second Edition Reference Book, John Wiley & Sons. Provision of the CD or book is at the discretion of the Facilitator based on inventory availability.
*Another textbook may be substituted for one of the above based on initial agreement between Dr. Browning and the Boot Camp site host.
Handouts:
-Examples and exercise
IMPORTANT NOTE FROM DR. BEV: If you register for this Boot Camp because you learned about it through my Web site, PLEASE CALL IN TO REGISTER AND STATE THAT YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORKSHOP THROUGH DR. BEV'S WEBSITE. I need to track how many registrations come in because of my marketing efforts. Thanks! Dr. Bev Browning (480) - 768-7400. An informational flyer with CALL IN directions can be downloaded on the link below.
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