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12 Oct Grants 101: Researching Grant Opportunities

Posted at 10:21h in Competency One, Courses, GPCI Competencies, Grants 101, How-To, Julie Assel, Research, Uncategorized

Grants 101: Researching Grant Opportunities Session 1 of the Grants 101 Series Buy Now Identifying grant-funding sources for your organization requires tedious research. This session will teach you where to find appropriate corporate and family foundation resources and what key details to collect whether you are using a...

12 Oct Evaluation Methodologies and Activities

Posted at 09:46h in Competency Five, Competency Four, Competency Three, Courses, Evaluation, Grant Management, Grant Readiness, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Uncategorized

Most people who write grants understand basic evaluation tools like tests (pre and post), pre and post surveys which measure a change in knowledge and attitude. But there is a much broader palate of evaluation methodologies and evaluation tools that can be used to paint...

10 Oct Effective and Ethical Grant Management

Posted at 15:59h in Competency Five, Courses, Ethics, Grant Management, Grant Readiness, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Uncategorized

Grant management is a continuum directly related to grant readiness. It points to an organization’s ability to follow through on what it said it would do and follow established best practices for financial, data, and records management. Presenter Julie Assel, GPC, has over 15 years...

08 May Advancing Grant Readiness

Posted at 15:00h in Case Statements, Competency Eight, Competency One, Courses, Grant Readiness, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Program Development, Uncategorized

What does it mean to be grant ready? There are so many questions to ask, like does this fit our mission? Are we prepared to implement services that are aligned to the funder’s mission? At what point do you go to the next level? And when you...

22 Apr Logic Models for Program Planning and Evaluation

Posted at 08:55h in Competency Four, Competency Three, Courses, GPC, Julie Assel, Logic Models, Uncategorized

You don’t have to love them, but you do have to respect them because logic models are a dynamic tool for program planning, evaluation planning, monitoring, and coalition building. Many funders require them, and even if they don’t always know what they really want from...