Grant Writing Secrets
Are you writing a grant application for the first time? Maybe you’re a veteran fundraiser looking to sharpen your grant writing skills. No matter how experienced you are at writing requests for money, people and organizations are not going to support you just because you’re in need.
Grant Writing Secrets shows you the most effective way to compose a grant proposal and get funding from governments, corporations and foundations. This hands-on, step-by-step, three-part seminar
on demand tells you where the money is, how to write a grant proposal, and how to avoid the common mistakes that doom proposals to failure.
Listen as nationally-renowned grants expert Beverly Browning describes:
- How to locate grant funds
- How to create a successful grant application
- How to spotlight your organization over your competitors
- How to transfer a rejection into a new opportunity
- Why your competitors are winning grants
- Why your grant isn’t being funded
- What reviewers are looking for when scoring a grant application
- Best practices and sample sections of a successful grant application
Demystifying the process of grant writing, this three-part seminar gives you savvy tips on organizing your writing, personalizing your requests, and how to handle your rejection and move forward.
SESSION 1: Where's The Money?
- Grants from foundations
- Grants from corporations
- Grants from government
- Grants from individuals
- Grants from international funders
SESSION 2: Grant Writing Tips and Skills.
Meet the review criteria of government grants and contracts
- Choose the right words to win funds
- Master cover letters, abstracts and more
- Let prospective grantors understand your need
- Put the finishing touches on your application
SESSION 3: How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes Funding Organizations Find in Grant Applications.
- writing in the proposal isn't succinct or intelligible
- costs are inaccurate or inflated
- proposal contains typographical or grammatical errors
- budget doesn't match the narrative
- objectives cannot be measured
- reasonable amount of time is not allotted to develop a project idea and to write the proposal
- jargon and acronyms used without explanation
- proposal is full of buzzwords and offers little substance
- the writer ignores the instructions in the request for proposals (RFP)
- funders are selected because they have money, not because there is a close fit between the project idea and the funders' interests.
About your presenter, Beverly Browning
Beverly Browning is an international grant writer and grant consultant based in Buckeye, Arizona. Throughout nearly two decades of contracted grant writing, professional workshop presentations, building a virtual internship program to train others how to write grant proposals, and authoring grant-related publications, she has used her experience to win public and private funding requests for her clients. She has demonstrated expertise in securing $100 million in foundation, corporate, state, local and federal grants.
Browning is the author of a dozen grants-related publications, including Grant Writing For Dummies (2001 and 2005, Wiley),
Grant Writing For Educators: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Staff (2004, NES),
Faithbased Grants: Aligning Your Church to Receive Abundance (2005, BBA), and
Winning Strategies for Developing Grant Proposals (2006, Thompson).
Browning holds a BA in organizational development from Spring Arbor College; a Masters in Public Administration with a minor in Health Care Administration from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Browning was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration for her grant-related publications. She is a grant writing course developer for Education To Go and online instructor for Rio Salado College. Browning is also a member of the Advisory Board for the University of Central Arkansas Community Development Institute.
What you get
- Three sets of handouts (90 pages), in Adobe PDF
- An electronic transcript of each session so you can review the material again,
in Adobe PDF
- A recording of each session, which you listen to online, download to your computer, burn onto a CD or download to your iPod
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Grant Writing Secrets teaches you how to write and submit a successful grant application.
Stop being left behind—financially and programmatically. Reduce your stress when it comes to finding, writing, and winning government funding opportunities.
Just $99 (three 60-minute sessions at just $33 each). Download the entire
seminar now. No shipping and handling. No delay.
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