Deep Dive: Grant Writing Workshop

Starting

April 11, 2025

Start Time

9:00 am

End Time

4:30 pm

Location

GCN Headquarters
881 Memorial Dr. SE
Atlanta, GA 30316

Event Type

Nonprofit University

Registration Details

Members: $150
Non-Members: $200

Special offer

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Overview

Get a comprehensive overview and targeted practice in grant writing with this immersive, full-day learning experience. You’ll get up-to-speed on all the fundamentals, best practices, and processes to follow while developing your in-progress project. Hands-on activities, including small-group breakout sessions and self-paced exercises, will give you experience in answering funders’ most-asked questions, developing an effective budget, identifying partners, and more.

By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with the skills to write compelling narratives that not only win awards, but make for powerful, persuasive fundraising conversations.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this session, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand the grant application process, from reading grant documents to program
    development, writing, and peer reviews.
  • Craft narratives and storytelling assets that lead to winning proposals, including compelling grant budgets a 5-minute fundraising pitch.
  • Lead an assessment of funding needs and identify the rationale for addressing them.
  • Identify grant opportunities, find partners, and respond to funders’ most common and critical questions.
  • Assess organizational capability and develop strategies to implement the project plan, per grant
    guidelines, by aligning your internal resources.

Audience

Nonprofit professionals of all experience levels will benefit from this training, including new-to-nonprofit leaders, executive leadership, program personnel, grant writers, and board members. This course serves as a continuum of learning for anyone who has attended GCN’s Certificate of Grant Writing Fundamentals or Fundraising Essentials series.

 

Registration note

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Facilitator(s)

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Dr. Brandi Rae Hicks

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