Grants Intensive
Build Your Skills to Help Your Cause
Workshop overview
In this full-day workshop, Liz O'Connor of Strategy Matters, Inc. will help participants build their grant development skills in order to further their program or organization's mission.Liz will lead participants through interactive exercises in the following areas:
- Clarifying Your Ask and Explaining Your Project Basics
- Finding Your Funder and Making Your First Contact
- Drafting Your Proposal Narrative
- Creating Your Budget and Attachments
- Finalizing and Submitting Your Proposal
- Managing Your Relationship with Your Funders
Who should attend
Anyone seeking to explore or start a new job which requires understanding of grants.- Nonprofit program staff
- board members
- volunteers.
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What you will learn
Program development for grant funded programs
- How to think like a funder
- Identifying high leverage strategies
- Planning programs for maximum "fundability"
Budgeting for grant funded nonprofits
- Avoiding common budget mistakes
- How to design a budget to match your grant proposal and your project's needs
- Building sustainability into your program budget
Grant writing for foundations
- Types of foundations and their characteristics
- Common proposal formats and narrative
- Communicating with funders: concept letters, letters of inquiry and more
Prospecting for funding sources
- Overview of sources of information on funders, especially in New England
- Use of databases for prospecting
- Developing your own prospect list; refining it for efficiency and manageability
What you will take away
- New confidence and optimism about the grant process
- A clear understanding of what is required to create a successful proposal
- Resources, tools and techniques to build your organization's fundraising plan
- Follow-up support services from Strategy Matters consultants including a professional review/editing of your proposal, and email updates on funding sources and trends.
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About Liz O'Connor
Liz O'Connor began writing grants as a graduate student in 1989 and never managed to stop. Through her work as a grant writer in organizations ranging from a public television station to a community- based literacy program to a city police department, she has developed a comprehensive understanding of the process from soup to nuts. O'Connor has also worked as a consultant to community and family foundations, funder collaboratives and grant-making government agencies, and possesses a very clear understanding of what funders want - and what they don't want - from the proposal process.Building on these varied experiences as well as her work as a teacher and trainer, O'Connor has been designing and delivering training to staff, volunteers, board members and executives of nonprofit agencies since 2000. She has designed and continues to teach four courses in the Northeastern University Graduate Program in Nonprofit Management (on grant writing, prospecting and marketing for nonprofit organizations), and also teaches a course in grant writing through Middlesex Community College.
About Strategy Matters, Inc.
Strategy Matters, Inc. is a consulting group that works with mission-driven organizations to develop creative solutions to complex problems. SMI clients are working in areas that affect whole communities: justice, safety, education, health, culture.Directions
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Registration
Registration Fee: $195. Registration closes October 20. The registration fee includes breakfast and lunch, training textbook and follow-up support services from Strategy Matters consultants including a professional review of your proposal and email updates on funding sources and trends.Click here to register today!
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