Grant Writing Workshop – May 10 and 12

Effective grant writing is an increasingly important skill in the social profit world. For small organizations and communities; however, grant writing can present a real challenge in terms of time, completion, budgeting and submission. This 6-hour workshop will cover the following topics:

1. Introduction to the Basics of Grant Writing – Program design, organizational assessment and understanding change logics
2. Grant-Writing by Design – Grant planning, writing as a learned skill and designing for change
3. Project Finance and Budgeting – Budgets, revenues, costs and evaluation
4. From Design to Submission – Outputs, impacts and outcomes: from change logic to implementation and success

Participants are encouraged to bring a grant (either in process or from a previous project) or granting opportunity to work on, with the goal of providing concrete ideas, skills and content for those same grants.

Note: This workshop will be delivered over two days (May 10 and May 12, 10:00am to 1:00pm).