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 “Mastering the Critical 1st Step for Grants: Letter of Inquiry (LOI)” will give you the basic steps necessary to successfully write a compelling letter of inquiry whether in a limited online form, two-page hard copy letter, or anything in between.
Join this nonprofit training on how to write grants for nonprofits, and learn the tools to write the best LOI you can write, so you can take your nonprofit organization on the right way of the application process for nonprofit grants!
Webinar Description:
Learn how to use storytelling in grants beyond a simple quotation from a client. We guide you step-by-step through multiple examples with different storytelling approaches to use in your own grant applications.
Learning Objectives:
- Use engaging stories in foundation grant applications;
- Balance client and organizational stories with statistics;
- Effectively integrate stories in government grant applications; and
- Ensure your story is consistent across all grant application elements and attachments
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.
Upcoming Intermediate Sessions
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.
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
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
Participating in “10 Tips for a Successful Grant Seeking Strategy” will provide you with insider knowledge about what funders are looking for and some specific tips you can use when reaching out to funders and crafting nonprofit grant applications. Having served as a Program Officer for a statewide public foundation, Diane is uniquely qualified to help you best translate and understand the materials put out by funders.
In this live webinar, we will go through ten tips that all grant professionals can use to help implement a successful grant-seeking strategy in their organization. We will look at specific examples of how these tips can and have been successfully used so you can consider how to best utilize the information within your own organization.
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