Join us for a grant writing learning opportunity for beginner-intermediate grant professionals. This three-day workshop will include presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on activities focused on planning and writing strong grant proposals and coordinating and preparing common attachments. Workbook and digital downloads included.
Sequenced Agenda
- The Landscape — Functions of proposals, types and component characteristics of proposals, understanding funders and grantor priorities
- The Guidance — Confirming fit, flagging issues, reviewing required registrations and pre-submission actions, understanding review and scoring
- The Set-Up — Creating a project team, rough budgeting and project planning, designing proposal work plans, creating document template
- The Writing — Writing well, dealing with length limits and formatting, understanding the experience of reviewing
- The Problem — Researching and explaining the need you are addressing, identifying barriers, teeing up a validated approach
- The Solution — Planning the project, justifying your approach, developing work plans and timelines, creating supporting materials
- The Results — Developing strong result measures, designing evaluation, developing supporting attachments
- The People — Describing your agency background, communicating capability and capacity, gathering attachments
- The Money — Creating budgets and budget justifications, including contractors and sub-awardees, tackling financial management
- The Bookends — Creating project summaries and abstracts, responding to sustainability questions, addressing dissemination
- The Plant — Ensuring everything is complete and compliant, submitting, properly documenting the project, using funder feedback
- The Funder — Learn from a funders panel representing different types of grant-making entities, hear their perspectives and ask questions
About Your Trainer
Aly Sanchez, Director of Strategy and Organizational Development for The Grant Plant, has more than two decades of grant writing experience including planning, proposal preparation, and reporting for complex private, state, and federal awards. In addition to direct grant development, she specializes in proposal strategy, project design, and staff and organizational development for The Grant Plant. Aly also leads the company’s capacity-building services, in which she develops learning materials, workshops, and trainings. Aly has completed UNM Evaluation Lab’s Evaluation Summer Institute and is trained and experienced in Results Based Accountability (RBA). Aly holds a BA in Psychology and an MBA focused on executive leadership.
Conditions
The price per participant is $700; lunch will be on your own, though snacks and caffeine are provided.
This event is eligible for Job Training ABQ. If your organization is a small business (for-profit or nonprofit) headquartered in Albuquerque, you can apply for free tuition.
Location
Nusenda Training Center, Piedra Lisa Room
4100 Pan American Fwy NE, Building B
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Questions? Reach out to us at mail@thegrantplantnm.com.
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