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Course Detail: GRNT - Grant Process Workshop
Participants will leave this all-day in-person workshop with knowledge of various grant processes from funding origin to budget development as well as resources and templates that can be used over and over again. Included in this workshop are networking activities designed to boost your proposal's competitiveness and teach you how to adapt your content and language for successful funding in the current political landscape. We encourage you to bring a project idea or proposal to discuss aligning it with current funding opportunities, exploring effective terminology, and leveraging networking to build strong partnerships and increase your chances of success.
Who should attend?This program is beneficial for non-profit professionals, educators, community activists/organizers or small business owners who are beginners or looking to develop a basic understanding of the grant process or experienced grant writers or current community groups who are seeking resources to help support less experienced local groups interested in beginning to pursue external funding.
Workshop Overview:Do you wonder: Where does grant money come from? What do you put in a project proposal? How do I find funding for my projects? Or do you need knowledge around grant processes or do you want resources to help support local organizations in your area to understand how to seek external funding? If so this workshop is for you!
Detailed Grant Processes Workshop Synopsis: This all-day face-to-face workshop is intended to provide participants a broad overview of the grant making process. This workshop format is structured so that participants can have their personal concerns and questions answered during the day. Topics covered include:
1) Learning about the grant cycle, the origins of grant funding and an explanation of the common elements included in most grant proposals. Strategies and resources for crafting each section of a grant proposal from the executive summary/abstract to the budget with tips on how to make your application stand out will be shared. An introduction to the new federal guidelines will also be shared to help participants remain in compliance in developing their projects;
2) Discovering how to identify the best funding opportunity for your project and align your proposal with the funding agency's priorities. Participants will participate in hands-on activities to explore a variety of the different funding databases and locations of funding opportunities for federal, state and private funding in order to find the best funding opportunities for their projects. Strategies for aligning funding opportunity focus with the participant's project will be shared which will allow participants to develop a more competitive proposal; and
3) Learning strategies to use in building the type of budgets required by various funding agencies including line item and modular budgets. Practice in assigning project expenditures to the appropriate line item and awareness of federal guidelines in relation to budget development will be shared.
Practical, easy to apply strategies will be shared in the areas covered throughout the day with a variety of resources and real-life examples being provided related to each of the areas addressed. There will be ample opportunity for participants' questions and concerns around the topics covered during the day to be addressed.
Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop to explore grant funding sites and to workshop proposals/ideas in real time. A limited number of laptops will be available for participants who do not have one. We also encourage you to bring a project or proposal, so we can discuss aligning it with current funding opportunities, explore effective terminology, and/or leverage networking to build strong partnerships and increase your chances of success. Participants will also be provided presenter contact information so that ad hoc support can be provided after the workshop day if desired. If you have questions about this program prior to registering please contact Diane Cox, diacox@siue.edu