Grant Writing for Beginners

20 Main Street,Wyalusing PA 18853

27 April, 2022

Description

• UNIT 1: Evaluating Grant Opportunities • UNIT 2: Professional Grant Writing Style • UNIT 3: Writing Specific Sections Date & Time : Wednesday, April 27th from 9 am to 12 pm Registration/Networking: 8:30 am Workshop Description : This introduction to grant writing is designed to help new nonprofit startups and novice grant writers understand the basics of how to author clear and compelling proposals that win awards. The workshop covers how to locate grants and prioritize your grant searches, write proposal narratives using evidence-based win themes, and tackle particularly challenging sections such as proposal budgets, timelines, and goals. Attendees will participate in hands-on writing exercises and hear directly from local foundation guest speakers, while networking with area nonprofit leaders. Learning Objectives • Recognize the different parts of a grant request for proposals • Compare and contrast various grant seeking strategies and funding sources • Recall key industry jargon and specialized terminology for grant proposals • Build a sample compliance matrix • Describe the funder’s decision-making process and motivations • Create appropriate win themes in response to an example funding request • Write example evidenced-based text sections appropriate for grant proposals • Recognize the major components of a grant proposal • Write effective example goal, objective, and outcome statements • Build example timeline charts or milestone schedules • Compose an example budget for a project • Describe why proposal review process is an important component of a nonprofit’s grant writing program Preparation Participants should bring a laptop computer (if available) so that they can compose text during the workshop’s writing periods. If the nonprofit already has a funding opportunity they are interested in writing a grant for, the participant is encouraged to bring the funder’s Request for Proposal (RFP) to the event as well as any initial work the participant has done in preparing their proposal for that opportunity. Participants without an RFP will be given an example document from a local foundation for use during the workshop.