Get the Grant Training

Join us for an immersive grant writing learning opportunity from The Grant Plant. 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.

Includes: Workbook and hands-on activities

Schedule: March 4-6, 9AM-4PM; 4 Topics/day

Location: Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico
640 El Paseo Rd, Las Cruces, NM 88001

Topics:
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