04 Mar

Posted at 13:56h in Competency Five, Competency Four, Competency Three, Competency Two, Courses, Federal Grants, GPCI Competencies, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Uncategorized

  SESSION 4 of the FEDERAL GRANTS SERIES Price: $150 The fourth session of our half-day, interactive Federal Grants series, designed to support nonprofit professionals before and during their first federal grant. Buy Now     You'll learn:  Best practices for staff time and effort tracking Best practices for procuring materials and...

23 Feb

Posted at 14:16h in Competency Five, Competency Four, Competency Three, Competency Two, Courses, Federal Grants, GPCI Competencies, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Uncategorized

  SESSION 3 of the FEDERAL GRANTS SERIES Price: $150 The third session of our half-day, interactive Federal Grants series, designed to support nonprofit professionals before and during their first federal grant. Buy Now     You'll learn:  When an evaluator must be outside of the program versus outside of the organization ...

09 Feb

Posted at 13:49h in Competency Five, Competency Four, Competency Three, Competency Two, Courses, Federal Grants, GPCI Competencies, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Uncategorized

  The second session of our half-day, interactive Federal Grants series, designed to support nonprofit professionals before and during their first federal grant. Buy Now     You'll learn:  The change from Duns and Bradstreet to Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) How to register for the System for Award Management and...

18 Nov

Posted at 12:55h in Budgets, Competency Five, Competency Three, Courses, Ethics, GPCI Competencies, Grant Management, Grant Readiness, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, Grants 101, How-To, Julie Assel, Julie Assel, GPC, Uncategorized

      Grants 101 - Basic Grant Management Session 11 of the Grants 101 Series 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,...

09 Oct

Posted at 19:00h in AGS Staff, Competency Four, Competency Three, Federal Grants, Logic Models, Professional Development
Spooky season is upon us, and at AGS we’ve been thinking about what keeps us up at night when it comes to grants. As grant pros, we are skilled at anticipating challenges and putting controls in place to mitigate negative outcomes in our grant programs. Here are some eerie grant scenarios with suggested actions that’ll have you sleeping like a baby.

14 Sep

Posted at 10:38h in Competency Seven, Competency Three, Courses, GPCI Competencies, Grant Management, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, Grants 301, How-To, Uncategorized

    Grants 301: Managing Up Session 5 of the Grants 301 Series One of the greatest challenges we face as grant professionals is getting the information and resources needed to craft project ideas and develop competitive proposals. This information is often spread across multiple people and departments…from finance to...

17 Jul

Posted at 14:22h in AGS Staff, Case Statements, Competency Three, Evaluation, Funding, Research
In a recent post, my colleague Michele Ryan gave a library of great data sites to bookmark and pull fresh data from. In this post I challenge you to look internally at the data you already collect within your organization or for your grant proposals and consider how to freshen it up a bit by making it more recent, more relevant, and more specific.

07 Jul

Posted at 12:14h in Competency One, Competency Three, Competency Two, Courses, GPCI Competencies, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, Grants 301, How-To, Logic Models, Uncategorized

  Grants 301: Logic Models and Theory of Change Session 4 of the Grants 301 Series While traditional philanthropy focused on funding immediate needs and short-term goals, the practice of philanthropy is taking a turn towards social change. Funders desire to fund change, not charity. In this way, philanthropy...

17 Jun

Posted at 13:26h in Competency Four, Competency Three, Courses, Evaluation, GPC, GPCI Competencies, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, Grants 101, How-To, Julie Alsup, Julie Alsup, Logic Models, Program Development, Uncategorized

    Grants 101: Evaluation and Logic Models Session 6 of the Grants 101 Series Almost all grant funders ask what effect a program will have on the participants and how the organization knows of a program’s success. This session will teach the development professionals who write grants methods for...

10 Jun

Posted at 12:46h in Competency Six, Competency Three, Courses, Ethics, Ethics, GPCI Competencies, Grant Readiness, Grant Training Series, Grant Writing, How-To, Julie Assel, Julie Assel, GPC, Partnerships, Program Design, Program Development, Uncategorized

    Ethics: The Ethics of Program Design: Plans and Partners Session 5 of the Ethics Series Creating a high-quality grant proposal can be challenging when organizations may also be designing the program at the same time. Alignment to the mission of the organization and its strategic plan versus...