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Workshop Descriptions

Want to offer grant-seeking workshops or webinars for your constituents? We can combine elements from any of our workshops to meet the needs of your organization. Whatever your requirements, we will work with you to ensure your participants receive a high-quality educational experience.

Grant Proposal Development – Basic/Intermediate

Securing grants requires a sound proposal.  Learn the basics of preparing grant proposals or sharpen your intermediate skills through a step-by-step approach to the process.  From developing the proposal idea to completing the details of the budget, this workshop provides an outline to use to prepare clear, concise, comprehensive, and competitive proposals.  Become familiar with the different formats required by funders and understand the protocol for grants management.

Choose either a full or half-day workshop format.  Participants will:

  • Understand the proposal process
  • Prepare the proposal idea
  • Develop the proposal components
  • Review the different types of proposals
  • Examine reasons for proposal rejection
  • Explore rules of grant management

Federal Grant Applications

Erase the complexity and confusion often associated with federal grants.  Rather than relying on corporate or foundation giving, it may be time to seek out potential federal grants.  More than $300.0 billion in federal grants are awarded each year.

Choose either a half-, full-, or two-day workshop format.  This workshop will help participants learn:

  • Understand the process of applying
  • Considerations for making the determination to apply
  • Find federal grants through online resources and publications
  • Prepare a federal grant application/proposal package and writing tips
  • The federal peer review process

Advanced Grant Seeking

Learn how to present your case for support no matter the type or size of grant you are requesting.  This workshop provides a working knowledge of more advanced components that are required by foundations, corporations, and government agencies.  There will also be a discussion on logic models, Gantt and PERT charts, and the different strategies to use to obtain grants for capacity-building projects and capital campaigns.

Experienced grant seekers only. This is a half-day workshop. The learning objectives include:

  • Review current grant trends
  • Respond to requests for specialized components
  • Formulate strategies to develop proposals for programs, special projects, capacity-building efforts, and capital campaigns
  • Prepare proposals for different levels of government
  • Learn techniques to apply for a multi-year or million-dollar grant

Researching Grant-Making Funders – Basic/Intermediate

Nonprofit organizations continually seek ways to secure needed grant funds to continue viable programs and implement new projects.  But where do you begin the search for potential grantmakers?  It can be a labor-intensive process; there are so many resources to consider.  This workshop provides a systematic process to identify and locate appro­priate grantmaking sources including foundations, corporate giving programs, and government agencies.  Learn what tools to use to match the proper funding institution to the needs of your nonprofit organization.

This is a half-day workshop. Topics include:

  • Identifying different types of resources to use when investigating potential funders
  • Providing a method of determining potential matches
  • Investigating and creating a list of potential funders
  • Building a relationship with a funding institution

Writing Tight: Secrets to Preparing Successful Online Grant Proposals (a.k.a. 21st Century Grants)

Online grant applications are here to stay! How do you convey your case for support when your need statement and project description can only be 2,000 characters in length? Writing tight or to the point and still get the attention of the grant reviewer has never been more crucial.  This session provides an outline to use to prepare clear, concise, comprehensive, and competitive proposals.  The techniques discussed will help you in crafting successful paper and paperless proposal narratives including those to the different levels of government as well as foundations and corporations.

This is a half-day workshop or 90-minute conference session. The topics covered include:

  • Submitting grant proposals through various online portals and their requirements
  • Strategically positioning your case for support
  • Tips to write clearly, concisely, comprehensively, and competitively

Other Grant Seeking and Development Writing Topics

We also provide workshops on the topics of Approaching Funders, Preparing Reviewer-Friendly Proposals, Mastering Logic Models for Grant Proposals, Capacity-Building Grants for Nonprofit Organizations, and Adapting Your Writing Style for the Audience. These half-day workshops are designed specifically for advanced grant seekers.

2022 Training Calendar

Sep
15
Thu
10:00 am Introduction to Grant Writing @ Webinar
Introduction to Grant Writing @ Webinar
Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Grant Writing @ Webinar | Great Barrington | Massachusetts | United States
From developing the proposal idea to completing the details of the budget, this workshop provides an outline to use to prepare clear, concise, comprehensive, and competitive proposals. Participants will learn to develop measurable project goals,[...]
Oct
18
Tue
10:00 am Beyond Letters of Intent: Approa... @ Webinar
Beyond Letters of Intent: Approa... @ Webinar
Oct 18 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Beyond Letters of Intent: Approaching Funders @ Webinar
You’ve done all your homework and identified several funders that checked all the boxes. Their funding priorities match your project. They fund organizations similar to yours. They award grants in your region. They even grant[...]
Oct
19
Wed
9:00 am Grants from Foundations & Corpor... @ Webinar
Grants from Foundations & Corpor... @ Webinar
Oct 19 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Grants from Foundations & Corporations: Workshop #3 of the AFP Connecticut Chapter’s Principles of Fundraising Series @ Webinar | New Haven | Connecticut | United States
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Connecticut Chapter is proud to announce: Fall 2022 Principles of Fundraising Certificate Program Nonprofit organizations often seek grant support for their new or existing programs, capital campaigns, capacity-building efforts,[...]
Nov
10
Thu
10:00 am Introduction to Grant Writing @ Webinar
Introduction to Grant Writing @ Webinar
Nov 10 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Grant Writing @ Webinar | Great Barrington | Massachusetts | United States
From developing the proposal idea to completing the details of the budget, this workshop provides an outline to use to prepare clear, concise, comprehensive, and competitive proposals. Participants will learn to develop measurable project goals,[...]
Dec
14
Wed
10:00 am Advanced Grant Proposal Writing @ Webinar
Advanced Grant Proposal Writing @ Webinar
Dec 14 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Advanced Grant Proposal Writing @ Webinar | Boston | Massachusetts | United States
Nonprofit organizations often seek grant support but fall short in receiving an award. Competition for grants continues to grow as government funding dwindles. Learn how to present your case for support no matter the type[...]
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News from The Write Source

Philanthropy Massachusetts, the voice for philanthropic giving in the state, invited Diane Gedeon-Martin, President of The Write Source, to be among a select committee of 15 that will update and revise the Massachusetts common grant application and report forms.

We are proud to welcome our newest client, the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition.

Recent Grant Successes

mHUB (IL) is one of 60 finalists of the $1.0 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), U.S. Department of Commerce. Their proposal for 2025 Clean Tech Economy Coalition (CTEC) received a $500,000 Phase 1 grant.

MATTER (IL) received at $1.3 million, three-year Venture Capital grant from EDA, U.S. Department of Commerce to scale their Venture Acceleration (VA) program.

mHUB Chicago (IL), in partnership with MATTER and 1871 received a $2.78 million grant from the EDA, U.S. Department of Commerce CARES Act initiative to invigorate startups and small businesses through Phase 2 of their Chicago Proactive Response (CPR) COVID-19  project. 

The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless received a $115,889, one-year grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to scale its technology and create policies to serve 100 patients at three, high-need federally qualified health centers operated by the Community Care Cooperative.

The United Way of Connecticut received the only $1.83 million, three-year contract from the State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to develop the Statewide Adult Recovery Call Center for Crises.

Aspire of Chicago (IL) received a $233,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation to integrate and migrate information technology systems from its recent merger with NorthPointe Resources.

Be sure to visit our Winning Grant Awards page for more information about these and other awards our clients received.

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