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Grant
Proposal Writing
Clinic

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In this clinic, you will learn how to develop a grant proposal through a hands-on learning process that affords you the opportunity to work on a specific grant proposal for your organization. In addition to leaving this clinic with a compliant, competitive grant proposal draft in hand, you will learn:

  • A seven step process to write an effective, compliant, compelling grant.
  • How to manage the grant proposal development process within your organization.
  • Ways to strengthen key proposal components including program models, logic models, and evaluation metrics.
  • The basics of grant budgets, including working with templates and critical concepts such as in-kind, match, and leveraged resources.

During the four sessions, a lot of material will be covered, and each week you will have time to make progress on your own grant proposal. Materials will be provided as needed during class sessions.



Session 1: Introductions: People, Organizations, and Projects
  • The Seven Step Process
  • Reading the RFP
  • Managing the Grant Proposal Development Process
 
Session 2: Writing (I)
  • Statement of Need
  • Research in a Grant Writing Context
  • Organizational Capacity
 
Session 3:Writing (II)
  • Project Description
  • Program Models
  • Logic Models
  • Evaluation


Session 4:Grant Proposal Budgets and Pulling it All Together
  • Basic Budgeting Concepts
  • Budget Templates
  • Ready for Submission

 

Who Should Attend
To gain maximum knowledge and benefit from this clinic, participants must:

  • Attend each class and be an engaged participant,
  • have a Request for Proposal/grant opportunity that you are interested in pursuing,
  • complete all in-class activities with energy and enthusiasm.

In turn, the instructor is committed to an organized presentation of material that follows the syllabus, an open dialogue that welcomes participants' questions and contributions, and a willingness to share her knowledge in a supportive lively manner.


Dates/Times/Location
Coming Spring 2012 / 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. Nonprofit Management Solutions| 8265 Vickers Street, Suite C, San Diego, CA 92111


How much does it cost?
EARLY BIRD prices:
Sweet Deal Members, $250.00
Members, $325.00
Not-Yet Members, $425.00

or
Sweet Deal Members, $300.00
Members, $375.00
Not-Yet-Members, $475.00

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Instructor

Erica Bouris, PH.D., Principle, B Square Impact, has worked within higher education, government, and the non-profit sector for more than ten years. Trained in political science and economics (University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies Ph.D., University of Denver MBA), she quickly found her niche helping the public, private, and non-profit sector work together to develop fund, and evaluate programs that serve local, national and international communities.

Erica values strengthening the skills of practitioners and program staff and in recent years, she has taught classes in grantwriting, assessment and evaluation, and organizational development for non-profits in the United States, as well as internationally through programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the University of California, San Diego. She designed the Grant Proposal Certificate for San Diego State University.