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 Successfully Tell Your Story in Your Grant Application” will teach you how to craft a compelling story in your grant application using all required elements of the grant application. From the abstract to the budget and all narrative elements in between, we will walk through how to create a consistent and competitive story.
Participating in “Grantmaker Relationships 101: How to Get Started” will teach you how to establish relationships with new grantmakers *BEFORE* submitting an application. Relationships are as critical a component of the grant-seeking process as they are with individual donors, but are often overlooked due to time constraints or due to discomfort with a grant maker’s preference or capacity for communication.
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
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.
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.
Upcoming Free Webinars
Participating in “Start Your 2025 Grant Seeking Off Right!” will provide you with a strong understanding of your success in 2024 and how to set goals for 2025 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.
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