Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop to be held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel Center
Downtown , L A
July 9 – 10, 2009
Stimulus funding:
What you need to know now
March 12, 2009 — Nonprofits should be ready to move quickly, now that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Obama.
In The Cohen Report (February 14 and February 15, 2009), a web publication of The Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen explores the significance of the Act for nonprofit organizations. Provisions of the Act include:
$150 million for economically distressed communities;
$225 million for Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs;
$100 million for Community Development Financial Institutions;
$750 million for worker training and placement (of this amount, $500 million is for careers in efficient and renewable energy–green jobs)
$50 million for capacity-building grants that will go directly to nonprofit organizations.
At a time when many foundations are cutting their grant budgets or scrambling to maintain them at last year’s level, a few foundations are stepping up their grant making in response to the economic downturn, the Boston Globe reports.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nation’s largest foundation, plans to award more than the $2.8 billion in grants it distributed last year — though not as much as it had once expected to. And despite losing 30 percent of what a year ago had been a $50 million endowment, the Boston-based Eos Foundation will spend an additional $15 million over the next five years to fight poverty in Boston, thanks in part to an additional $10 million contribution from Eos founder Ken Nickerson and his wife.
Meanwhile, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts recently announced that its grant making would more than double to $250,000 in both 2009 and 2010. Although its $2.7 million endowment lost 20 percent of its value last year, an unexpected $300,000 gift will help finance the increased spending.
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All participants will receive a certification in professional grant writing from Grant Development Solutions.
For more information call toll free (866) 624-5003 or visit Grant Development Solutions website at http://www.grantdevelopmentsolutions.com.
GDS also provides customized training programs tailored to the specific needs of an agency or group of agencies. These are developed around our GDS Training workshops. Participants in a customized workshop share common concerns, they may all work in the same field or for the same agency. They may be looking for funding from similar sources.
GDS works closely with the sponsor to identify the specific needs of the group and meets those needs by focusing on appropriate funding sources and developing special class exercises.
Grant Development Solutions: Certificate in Professional Program Development and Grant Communications is a fix-day intensive and interactive experience in which participants will be led through the program development, grant writing, and funding acquisitions processes through the completions of the five sessions. Grant Development Solutions is not a seminar. Participants will actively engage in exercises and activities designed to strengthen their mastery of grant acquisitions. Through the completion of varying assignments, students will leave Grant Development Solutions with a real grant proposal outline completed with quality research, solid content, and expert review. Grant Development Solutions focuses on combining the fundamentals of grant proposal writing with expert knowledge of communication principles such as Strategic Research, Persuasion, Argumentation, and Framing.
Grant Development Solutions trainers and consultants do not merely lecture participants, but act as personal consultants and coaches dedicated to encouraging participants to succeed beyond their own expectations. While Grant Development Solutions uses collaboration and small groups for many exercises, so participants are not overwhelmed with negativity or discouragement, but will be given the highest level of expertise to generate confidence in pursuing any funding project.
At Grant Development Solutions participants’ don’t just learn to write grant proposals from start to finish. Participants become specialist in our unique area of expertise. Our graduates are strategic, innovative, and confident. Whether you are new to professional grant writing, or an experienced professional, you will not want to miss Grant Development Solutions workshop.
Grant Development Solutions consists of (5) Sessions that will be completed during a two-day workshop.
Grant Research/ Program Development-Session One: This course is centered on the belief that “its” all about the program.” This intensive course will teach professional program development essentials and program evaluation. While most grant writing “workshops” treat program development and evaluation as separate entity from grant writing of a proposal, this class will teach students the relationship between overall program planning and all the strategic communication, including grant writing. Consistent in our belief in GDS, this class encourages students to understand successful program development and to think strategically about funding as an integral part of the overall program planning process. This class turns them into experts by teaching how to take ideas and concepts and turn them into professionally developed programs.
Grant Proposal Writing-Session Two: Designed for both the novice and experienced grant writer, this course will make each student an overall fundraising communication specialist. In addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal, successful approaches, do’s and don’ts of grant writing, this course is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery of the process. Strategy resides at the forefront of this course’s intent to illustrate grant writing as an integrated, multidimensional, and dynamic endeavor. Each student will learn to stop writing the grant and to start writing the story. Ultimately, this class we illustrate how each component of the grant proposal represents an opportunity to use proven techniques for generating support.
Marketing-Session Three: The third component of The Professional Grant Development Training Program is our uniquely designed Marketing Program .This session of the course teaches students how to catapult their organization to the forefront through essential marketing practices. Our industry experts teach how to market your organization efficiently intertwining the grant proposal writing process with marketing principles designed and exclusive to Grant Development Solutions. In this session students will be taught to: Market Your Organization, build healthy relationships between your organization and potential funder; develop fund raising teams and strategies; building and maintaining partnerships; creating a grant seeking campaign plan.
Proposal Review-Session Four: This course will provide students with arsenal of advanced persuasion and argumentation techniques. Centered around expert communication principles, this class will change the way students conceptualize grant proposals and other fundraising tools. Students will leave this course with GDS masterful methods and students will be more confident grant writers, this course is grounded on the idea that fundraising and nonprofit development represent profound communication activity. Without question, this course is part of the Grant Development Solutions difference.
Grant Solution – Session Five: In the final session of your training, we offer our “solutions”. Our Experts will lead a question and answer session to help students understand and utilize their newly acquired grant writing skills. Experts will be available to answer comments and clarify ideas learned in the session.
REGISTRATION
$595.00 tuition includes all material and certificates.
Special Group Rates 3 or more $495
GDS’s Professional Solutions to Writing Grants Workbook
Customized Research The Professional Grant Development Solutions Training Certificate of Completion
Discounts to future trainings, workshops, and services offered by Grant Development Solutions
REGISTRATION METHODS
1) On –Line – Visit http://www.grantdevelopmentsolutions.com and click on the Registration area. Fill out the online registration form completely. We’ll send your confirmation by e-mail.
2) By Phone – Call (213) 624-1112 to register by phone customer service to assist you and answer your questions.
3) By E-mail – Send an e-mail with your name, organization, and basic contact information to customerservice@grantdevelopmentsolutions.com
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