Specialty Workshop: Grant Funding - Win It Before You Write It 

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Lesson series
  • Category: Grant Funding
  • Instructor: Amber Schott
  • Course Length: 120 minutes
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Course objectives:
  • Evaluate and prioritize funders strategically, identifying which prospects are genuine fits based on mission alignment, funding history, and priorities — rather than pursuing every opportunity that appears.

  • Decode funder intent, reading RFPs and guidelines closely enough to position programs in the language and priorities funders are actually looking for.

  • Close the loop between reporting and re-funding, using past grant reports strategically to set up the next ask rather than treating them as a compliance afterthought.

  • Identify where AI can add real leverage in the grant portfolio process — from funder research to positioning to report drafting — and where human judgment still has to lead.

Amber Schott

Meet the Facilitator

Amber Schott is the Senior Manager, Grants & Impact Evaluation at Mission Edge, where she helps mission-driven organizations strengthen grant strategy and measure the outcomes of their programs. She brings a data-informed, practical approach to helping nonprofits build capacity and demonstrate the impact of their work.
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  • Date: November 4, 2026

  • Time: 9AM - 11AM PST

  • Virtual 

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Course overview
Most grants are won or lost long before the writing starts — in which funders you pursue, how closely you read what they want, and how your last report set up the next ask.

Two hours inside a working grant portfolio: how funders get chosen, how programs get positioned, and where the cycle quietly breaks. Plus a few places AI can carry real weight.

Get funded. Then get funded again.
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