Learn to Win More Grants — Live Webinars from GPA-Approved Trainers.

Our training team, comprised of dedicated GPA-approved trainers, is eager to empower your organization. We’ll help you supercharge and sharpen your grant writing skills, dramatically boosting your chances of securing that crucial funding.

We offer a dynamic range of training formats to fit your needs, including:

Action-packed 1-hour or 90-minute webinars

Immersive half-day or full-day in-person workshops

Transformative multi-day mastermind classes

Ready to unlock your grant-getting potential? Choose from our exciting topics or schedule a consultation to create a custom training experience tailored just for you!

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2026 Lunch and Learn

Inspiring Your Grant Team and Funders with Your Elevator Pitch

Let's talk about your elevator pitch! It's that incredibly useful tool that you carry around in your mental notes so that when you first meet someone or are casually (or not so casually) chatting with anyone about your work or volunteerism, you can easily and succinctly share the value of your work and its urgency. When you are ready without hesitation, it is quite effective, and your passion for your work is immediately evident.

Whether you have an elevator pitch already (or pre-strategized message), we will work together to ensure you have a refined elevator pitch by the end of the session. 

Then, for the very important next step, we'll make plans together to "take it to the street"---or make that, plans to train your grant team to confidently take it to the street! 

This session is just as much about nurturing your team's enthusiasm as it is about having a united message ready to go. 

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Using Personas to Engage Your Grantmakers with Your Story

Because a funder is not typically  immersed in the change they are effecting, often, we grant writers/grant professionals need to convey critical needs using only words and numbers. Yet, we really need the grant reviewer to feel connected and moved to action.  

In this session, we will help you identify your organization’s personas and how they can help you tell a story that will more impactfully reach grant reviewers. While the term is familiar in marketing and communications, we propose a strategic and unique application tailored specifically for the grants world. We will also explore methods for clarifying and understanding the specific, special personas that are unique to your organization. Finally, we will guide you through how you can apply personas in your writing to transform your proposals and secure funding.

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We Got the Award! Now, to Remember What We Said We Would Do....

As Robert Frost wrote, "...I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep" (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923). After we receive an award, like Frost, we now have much to do, and we want to follow through on our obligations to our communities and our grantmaker. 

Frost's plan might have been to get back on his horse, say "giddyup," and ride home. 

For grant recipients, the approach is a little different. The funder's award notification activates the grant recipient's (your) initiation phase, when your team convenes and makes concrete plans to begin and ultimately complete your project.

It is an exciting time, full of energy and many, many details! This is the time when you set the stage for fulfilling the promises you made. It involves a good number of important tasks to complete.

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Tues, August 11th at 12:00 PM EDT
Wed, October 14th at 12:00 PM EDT
Thurs, December 10th at 12:00 PM EDT

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How to Write a Grant Budget That Tells (and sells) Your Application’s Story

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.

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Grant Writing For Nonprofits 101: How to Write a Grant Application That Wins!

In this live, interactive webinar, you will learn how to create compelling grant application elements that tell a story so YOU can secure grants for your organization too. We will focus on how to use the common key elements to create a competitive grant application that tells a story that engages the grant reviewer and clearly outlines how you will use the requested grant funds to achieve the stated goals and objectives.  

Presented by Beth Archer, GPC, RSM

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Grant Writing 201: Making Your Grant Application Stand Out

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! 

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Grant Maker Relationships 101: How to Get Started

In this live, interactive nonprofit webinar we will discuss how to establish and then maintain relationships with grantmakers to sustain and increase your organization’s grant revenue. We will walk through unique success stories from several nonprofits as case studies to show how relationships can be started

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Free Nonprofit Webinar: So You Want to Write a Grant?

In this live, interactive webinar, we will discuss how grants can help your organization implement new programs or projects to best achieve its mission. We will also address the common pitfalls encountered by many organizations seeking grants for the first time as well as common challenges for new grant writers. 

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Thur, July 16th, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Wed, July 22nd, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT
Wed, August 12th, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Wed, August 26th, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT
Wed, September 23rd, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT
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"Great webinar! Diane was extremely knowledgeable about Federal grants and presented the information with clear, easy to understand visuals."
Federal Grants 101
Securing Millions for Your Organization
"While I have submitted scores of private grant proposals over 10 years in the non-profit field and more local government proposals recently, federal opportunities still give me pause. I have only submitted one myself. This webinar has given me more confidence and tools to use in my next opportunity."
Federal Grants 201
How to Feel Confident and Competitive as You Click Submit
"Diane led a terrific custom webinar, "Grant Budgets that Tell a Story" for our Grant Professional of Lower Hudson members. The information presented was thorough and covered many different grant application budget formats and budget topics. Diane provided useful tips about how to design a budget that will lead to grant success. We especially liked Diane's references to actual organizations and how their budgets were constructed. Diane is a warm and engaging speaker and we would love to have her back again soon!"
Joanne Stewart, GPLH
Consultant for Nonprofits, Foundations and Corporate Citizenship programs at goodworks advisory group, llc
"As someone who teaches part-time, I recognize a natural born instructor when I see one. Diane is such an amazing instructor--a gift that not many possess. She is very knowledgeable, welcomes questions ( seamlessly working them into her lessons) and prepares a flexible curriculum that allows her to switch to topics relevant to her audience/class. However, the best thing about Diane is her passion for her work and her very dynamic nature. Her energy and attitude are contagious and, she makes you think about grants differently. I have taken Basic and Intermediate courses with Diane and she has a consistent teaching style across courses, which I love. I hope to have another opportunity to work with Diane! I can't say enough good things about her. Thanks so much Diane for making me a better grant professional"
Rachel Davis, MPH
Project Manager, Social Determinants of Health Survey Bureau of Epidemiology Services | Surveys and Data Analysis Unit NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
"This is the most engaging webinar I have participated in yet! I really enjoyed that the content was presented in a digestible manner."
How to Master Nonprofit Grants
Strategy, Calendars. and Teams.
"The presenter does an excellent job of merging those in the starting/beginning phases of forming a grant team with those further along. The most engaging webinar I've ever participated in."
How to Master Nonprofit Grants
Strategy, Calendars. and Teams.
How to Think Like a Reviewer
Diane Leonard conducted an amazing webinar for our GPA chapter titled "Think Like a Reviewer." The material was easy to follow, but introduced new strategies that beginners and veteran grant professionals could implement almost immediately. Diane structured the presentation so it was interactive and caused the audience to think. I look forward to her presenting to our chapter again in the future.
Ashaki Sorrell
GPA Michigan, Chapter Secretary
Expanding Your Grant Seeking Strategy While Still Being Sustainable
This webinar offered incredibly practical, applicable, and realistic tools and suggestions. It addressed real challenges and provided insightful tips to addressing very important and often forgotten facets of grant writing - like avoiding burnout and achieving realistic work life balance while still meeting expectations.
Sarah Anderson
Expanding Your Grant Seeking Strategy While Still Being Sustainable
Very organized (yet felt flexible) presentation, best team approach to a webinar ever!
Cathy Alsup,
Hope Partners Hawaii
Expanding Your Grant Seeking Strategy (While Still Being Sustainable)
This was an informative session that is making me think differently about how I plan and reality check my workload. I appreciated learning something that I can actually apply to my daily work. Thank you for demonstrating the actionable steps in planning not only for the calendar, but also for organization priorities. Thank you.
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
I love the way DH Leonard Consulting gives back to the grant professional community. I always know I will get an engaging and relevant topic that makes me think about my grant work in new ways. Thank you!
Kathy Hatfield, Kathy Hatfield LLC
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
I really liked the way that they approached evaluation. It allowed me to rethink what we do and how to communicate our need to take evaluation beyond the "good" level. I'm excited to begin to implement some of the ideas.
Laura Cochran, INHP
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
Thanks to Diane, Julie, and Megan for providing such a wonderful webinar! They presented everything in a way that made it very easy to understand and their back-and-forth banter was engaging. Thanks to them, I will never be able to look at a Logic Model again without thinking of chocolate chip cookies!
Karen Hays
Central Virginia Chapter of Grants Professional Association
How to Make Reporting to Your Funder a Snap Based on Your Application
I liked the presence of two presenters PLUS a third team member who moderated the chat box. I always worry a little when there is only one presenter, and they have to juggle multiple tasks while presenting and talking.