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.
2024 Lunch and Learn
2024 Lunch and Learn is proudly sponsored by GrantHolser
All sessions are recorded | $19.99 each
- Unlocking Grant Readiness: Strategies and Best Practices for Successful Funding
- How to Avoid Grant FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
- How to Build Authentic Relationships with Your Funders
- Good, Better, Best - Telling Your Story of Impact through Program Design and Evaluation Tools
- Creating Twice the Impact in Half the Time: An Agile Approach to Grant Writing
2025 Lunch and Learn
- How to STAY Grant Ready as Your Organization Evolves | Feb 12th 12:00pm ET
- How to Make a Go/Strategic No Decision for Grant Opportunities | April 16th 12:00pm ET
- Don't Treat Your Grantmaker Like an ATM | June 18th 12:00pm ET
- Don't Just Write the Grant - Find Your Red Thread and Tell a Story | August 13th 12:00pm ET
- Don't Make Your Grantmakers Do Algebra: How to Present Clear Budgets and Budget Justifications | Oct 15th 12:00pm ET
- Don't Surprise Your Grantmaker: How to be a Fantastic Grantee | Dec 10th 12:00pm ET
Offered in Collaboration with CharityHowTo
Use discount code Leonard15 for any CharityHowTo trainings
Beginner Sessions
Participating in “How to Knock Your Grantmaker’s Socks Off” will give you the critical steps to follow for implementing a “mock review” in your organization to have your editing process mimic that of a grant review process so you start to think like a grantmaker. You’ll see firsthand how the mock review process dramatically changes and increases the competitiveness of each application.
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.
Join us for a comprehensive webinar exploring strategies to align your grant-seeking efforts with the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Code of Ethics. Learn practical tips and best practices to maintain integrity, transparency, and professionalism in every stage of the grant process.
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.
In this live webinar, we will discuss how to best use the variety of tools available for foundation research to create and support your grant-seeking plan and strategy. We will look at opportunities for discounts or short-term access to reduce grant research expenses while supercharging your results from the research.
We will also address the key role that your colleagues should play in the grant research process and how to get them excited and engaged to help keep their eyes open for grant opportunities.
Participating in the webinar “Mastering the Critical 1st Step for Grants: Letter of Inquiry (LOI)” will walk you through, step-by-step, how to write a letter of inquiry that will grab your potential funder’s attention.
In this live, interactive nonprofit webinar, we will look at the steps necessary to write a successful letter of inquiry that will elicit the request for a full proposal from a grantmaker that you are seeking.
Participating in “10 Tips for a Successful Grant Seeking Strategy” will give you some “insider” tips and tricks from the funder’s perspective that will assist you when working on creating and implementing your grant-seeking strategy. Use the tips discussed in this webinar to ensure that you are putting together highly competitive grant applications and ultimately achieving your desired grant funding success.
As the calendar year begins to wind down and you think about the new year, are you also thinking about how to strengthen your grant-seeking strategy in the upcoming year?
Starting your year off with a strong plan and clear goals in place will ensure that you secure the funding necessary to achieve your goals for grant revenue.
Participating in “Start Your 2026 Grant Seeking Off Right!” will provide you with a strong understanding of your success in 2025 and how to set goals for 2026 that will help expand your grant-seeking strategy and revenue. We will also discuss how to increase the engagement of your colleagues in being part of the grant planning process to further increase your success.
Intermediate Sessions
In this live, interactive nonprofit development webinar, we will teach you how to go beyond putting together a grant application. We will teach you how to customize each proposal to include a compelling need statement and related SMART objectives to engage the grantmakers reading your proposals – the most effective grant-writing approach!
In this live, interactive nonprofit webinar, we will focus on strengthening the areas of your federal grant applications that are often weaknesses in proposals to increase your competitiveness in the process. This is the best online grant writing course you can find.
“Federal Grants 201: Feeling Confident and Competitive as You Click Submit” will build on and go beyond your basic understanding of writing a federal grants for nonprofits.
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.
Yes, small and medium-sized nonprofits go after large grants of six figures or more all the time, but unfortunately, they are often denied despite the hard work and effort that the awesome organizations put into them. The most common reason regardless of the organization or funder being applied to that they are not awarded is most because they lack the preparation that is needed to craft a highly competitive application. Rather, with the best of intentions, the organization “just” dives right into the writing overlooking key steps to complete before starting the grant application itself.
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.

Look for the “Earn My Certificate” on the CharityHowTo website and earn a certificate of competency by completing trainings with our team.
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