LIVE WEBINAR | St. Louis Regional GPA Chapter: Needs Assessments & Strategic Planning

St. Louis Regional Chapter Meeting: Needs Assessments & Strategic Planning

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Needs assessments conducted broadly in the community and specifically by an organization are valuable tools for all individuals who write grants. They help the writer use facts to describe the challenges experienced by the target population of the grant proposal. In addition, the outcomes of the services provided should naturally address these challenges.

Strategic plans are the plans of how organizations will respond to the challenges experienced by their community. They use the strengths of the organization to address specific challenges. Ideally, organizations also partner with other organizations in areas where they do not have strengths to provide the target population with additional or more comprehensive services to address more of the challenges identified in the broader community. Grants written should have services which align to its organization’s strategic plan.

What You’ll Learn:

• • • where to find community needs assessments
    • how to create and distribute simple and thorough needs assessments
    • the challenges of what needs assessments don’t say
    • how to be involved in needs assessment and strategic plan development
    • the drawbacks to being involved in needs assessment and strategic plan development
    • how to reference needs assessments in a grant proposal
    • where and how to reference strategic plan alignment in a grant proposal

About our Speaker:

Michele Ryan, GPC, is an Assistant Director with Assel Grant Services. Michele joined the firm in 2019, bringing twenty years of non-profit sector experience in elementary, secondary and higher education, performing arts and social services. She received her bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and has broad fundraising knowledge with a focus on grant writing and management in the Greater St. Louis Region. Michele has successfully secured over $16 million in funding from government, foundation, corporate, and individual sources over the course of her career.

Fee: GPA Members $10, Non-Members $20

As an attendee, we require you to abide by the GPA Code of Ethics and our Event Code of Conduct. If you have any issues with either of these, please contact us at staff@grantprofessionals.org or 913-788-3000 to address the concerns.