Participants must attend all sessions.

Please note: This course will be taught at FirstLink, 195 N Grant Ave, Columbus, OH 43229 (Click here for map of location.)

This is a very intense series for the beginning and intermediate Grant Writer. Participants will work hard but the class will enable you for concrete results.

Fee: $160

Session I Course Description:

Successful grant writing requires planning and preparation. This hands-on workshop will cover essential models and documentation necessary for being competitive in your grant proposals. We will map out your agency's: fundraising goals, mission and history, documentation needs, target populations and program logic models and proven best practice models for your program and your evaluation plans.

Session II Course Description:

Finding funders that fit your agency's mission and programs is critical to successful grant seeking. During this hands-on workshop, we will learn how to: research appropriately focused funding possibilities; conduct local, state and federal funder searches; set up funding search files; organize our time to stay on top of funding searches.

Session III Course Description:

Step into the middle of grant writing with us. Using successful grants as models, we will walk through grant writing from conceptualization, research, collaboration building, project management, writing basics and rejection and post award processes. Bring a grant you are developing as we map out writing processes and self-management techniques for successful grant writing.