Grant Writing Trainings
Our training team is made up of dedicated GPA approved trainers, and is excited to help your organization by strengthening your grant readiness and enhancing your grant writing skills and practices to increase your chances of securing grant funding.
We offer a variation of ALL listed topics as 1-hour or 90-minute webinars, ½ or full day in-person workshops, and multi-day mastermind classes.
To get started, select one of our topics or schedule a time to discuss customizing a topic of your choice.
Upcoming Beginner Sessions
Participating in “How to Write a Grant Budget That Tells (and Sells!) Your Application’s Story” will walk you through, step-by-step, how to write a grant application that tells and sells the story of your proposal and will help get the grant award. Whether working on grant budgets for private foundations or for state and federal agencies, writing a bulletproof grant budget is a critical component of being awarded a grant.
In this live, interactive nonprofit training course, we will look at the steps necessary to write a grant budget that regardless of the form provided will tell the complete story of your grant proposal. During the webinar, we will walk through each step of creating a budget. We will look at numerous budget form examples to discuss how the specific form helps tell your application’s story.
Grant professionals are always scanning the landscape looking for potential new grant opportunities for their organization: reading emails, watching social media, searching databases for a potentially missed opportunity, and subscribing to any funder newsletters that may alert them to a new or upcoming opportunity. In this session we will share how to use proven tools and strategies to successfully navigate research results to create a prioritized proactive grant seeking strategy and avoid FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on grant opportunities.
Participating in “Grant Writing 101: How to Write a Grant That Wins!” nonprofit training will give you a strong framework for your grant writing efforts to ensure that you are putting together highly competitive grant applications and ultimately achieving your desired grant funding success.
Learning Objectives:
- How grant applications vary by funder type
- How to competitively address the common key elements of a grant proposal
- How to develop an initial outline for a grant application
- How to create compelling grant application elements that tell a story
- Cover Letter
- Executive Summary
- Statement of Need
- Project Description
- Budget
- Organization Capacity
- How grant funder research and relationship-building support submitting a competitive grant application
Participating in “Finding a Needle in a Haystack: How to Successfully Research Grants” will help you identify strong funding matches, create a plan for the year ahead, and ultimately set you up for grant funding success.
In this live, interactive nonprofit webinar, we will discuss how to best use the most common paid databases utilized by US-based nonprofits for foundation research and integrate that research with free research tools in order to draft an initial grant strategy. We will use proven tools and strategies to successfully compile the multitude of information and documents collected during the research process in order to create a prioritized proactive grant-seeking strategy.
Learning Objectives:
- How to utilize a variety of tools to conduct grant research
- Understanding the pros and cons of the available paid databases.
- Suggestions on a process for choosing a paid database.
- Using paid databases to effectively research potential grant funders.
- Using free research resources and options.
- Exploring supplemental free research resources (beyond Google!).
- Filling in the research blanks.
- How to develop a strategy and manageable annual grant-seeking plan
- Demonstrating how to use proven tools to organize the mountains of electronic and hard copy records amassed during grant research.
- Creating an annual calendar of grant outreach and applications from your research.
- Setting the stage for grant funder relationship development: the next step after research and BEFORE submitting an application.
Relationships are critical to the success of your overall grant-seeking strategy. This training will strengthen your grant funder relationship-building efforts and, ultimately, your grant funding success. Learn how to establish and maintain authentic relationships with grant funders to sustain and increase your organization’s grant revenue.
Creating a grant application in collaboration with the colleagues who will be implementing and reporting on the funded work is a surefire way to reduce the stress that grant funding can put on an organization. In this session, we will share tactics for how to engage your colleagues in your application process using program design and evaluation elements to strengthen your narrative and ensure that your grant reporting is stress-free once awarded.
Session participants will leave the session with concrete, repeatable processes and steps they can use with grant and program teams during pre-award planning to develop competitive proposals and set the team up for less stressful reporting at the end of grant periods.
In this webinar we will teach you how to take an Agile approach to managing your grant applications for your organization to significantly improve the grant seeking process. The Scrum framework is a proven way for grant writing teams to increase the efficiency of application design and to manage the iterations of applications and numerous players that have a stake in successful grant applications.
Upcoming Intermediate Sessions
Participating in “Federal Grants 201: Feeling Confident and Competitive as You Click Submit ” will give you an increased level of ability and confidence with an effective grant writing course to teach you how to approach a federal grant proposal so your final proposal is as competitive as possible.
By following the best practices you will learn a lot through this nonprofit webinar, and your organization will be on the path to achieving your desired grant funding success through federal grants. This is the CharityHowTo approach to ‘grant writing made easy’.
In this workshop, we will teach you how to facilitate a process that can be used to support any grant application process but is FANTASTIC for large grants (whether foundation or government) or six figures (or more!) so that your actual writing work in grant applications is as competitive as possible.
During This Nonprofit Workshop, You Will Create:
- A grant calendar for the large opportunities to preplan for
- A cross-functional team specific to a large grant application
- Logic Model draft of program design with SMART objectives
- Preliminary Project Budget
- Work Plan of Key Activities
During This Nonprofit Workshop, You Will Learn:
- How to create a grant calendar for the large opportunities to preplan for
- How to create and facilitate a cross-functional team, that is inclusive of project partners, specific to a large grant application
- How to develop SMART objectives that will support your program design
- How to develop a Preliminary Project Budget that will align with the anticipated amount of funding
- How to develop a Work Plan of key activities that align with the project budget and determine the activities of stakeholders and project partners
This in-depth, easy to understand, grant training gives you a broad overview of the grant process, including assessing grant readiness, conducting federal grant research, collaborating with partners, and developing budgets and work plans.
In this live, interactive workshop, we will guide you through creating a program design blueprint (a logic model) that you can use to write all of your grants, whether foundation or government. We will look at specific successful examples to provide you with a variety of ways to present your organization’s programs and projects, and their impact, in a clear and concise logic model.
During This Nonprofit Workshop, You Will Learn:
- How to create a needs statement;
- How to determine what change you intend to create;
- How to gain confidence in developing your logic model;
- How to work with a team to develop your logic model;
- How to use your logic model to guide your ability to effect change;
- How to understand goals and objectives within a logic model;
- How to adapt your logic model into specific grantmaker forms and narrative responses; and
- How to identify and avoid common errors in program logic models.
Look for the “Earn My Certificate” on the CharityHowTo website and earn a certificate of competency by completing trainings with our team.
Upcoming Free Webinars
What is all the hype about relationships with grantmakers?
Why isn’t a well-written proposal *enough* to get the grant award?!
Participating in “Why Build Relationships With Grantmakers” – a FREE nonprofit course – will strengthen your relationship-building efforts and grant writing results in your grant-seeking strategy.
In this live webinar, we talk briefly about *why* relationships with grantmakers are important. We will share ways to learn if a grantmaker has the capacity to have relationships with potential grantees prior to submitting an award versus what their preference is for communication prior to an award.
We will also address the key role that your colleagues should play in the grant relationship outreach process and how to get them excited and engaged to help look for connections and make introductions to grantmakers.
On Demand Webinars
In this one-hour recorded webinar, you will learn the basics of grant writing including what the life cycle of the grant seeking process is. Dig in and strengthen your understanding of grant writing with this brand-new webinar.
You will learn about:
- Grant Readiness,
- Grant research,
- Grantmaker relationships,
- Grant wRiting, and
- Reporting
How to Think Like a Reviewer
Expanding Your Grant Seeking Strategy While Still Being Sustainable
Expanding Your Grant Seeking Strategy While Still Being Sustainable
Expanding Your Grant Seeking Strategy (While Still Being Sustainable)
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application