Introduction to Successful Grant Writing (7212010)

Dates: 7/21/2010 - 8/24/2010

You can enroll up to 10 days after the start date of the class.

Price: $139

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In this course, students will learn how to prepare effective grant applications to develop new services, support existing programs, and strengthen your operating budget. This course provides a practical step-by-step approach to identifying a funding need, researching funding sources, preparing a winning proposal, and laying the groundwork for successfully completing the grant project. At the end of the course students will be able to develop ideas and research funding resources, write a need statement, define goals and objectives, develop methods, work plans, and budgets, and evaluate and leverage future funding strategies.

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Course Objectives

Students will get familiar with grants, how to find them and what goes into writing a good grant.
In this lesson, students will learn:
- what a grant is
- the best place to search for available grants
- to ask for help from experienced grant writers
- to recognize the grant application by it's many names
- to contact the funder
Students will also learn what goes into:
- writing the grant proposal
- the key element - what grantors want
- finalizing your grant - edit, edit, edit
Successful grant writing involves planning, searching for data and resources, preparing and writing the proposal, submission and follow-up. Here, we take a more detailed look into the preparation and writing phases.
In Lesson 3 & 4, we will be getting much deeper into what is involved in the actual writing of the grant proposal. You will develop a much better understanding of each area of the proposal and the detail you must go to in each section to achieve the desired results - a winning grant.
Find out more about information you should provide grantors regarding future funding, budgets, additional information which should be sent along with the proposal and it's appearance.
The grantseekers checklist is a good way to review everything you have learned so far, making sure you have not forgotten anything when preparing and writing your proposal.
One of the best resources available is finding out what funders have to say about grant proposals. Since they are the ones reviewing grant proposals on a regular basis, what they say should be given extra weight when being considered. These are the experts who make the final decision on who wins the grants.