Federal Find and Fit Session 2 of the Federal Grant Development Series Register Now       Applying for federal grants can be daunting. Between the broad and changing range of federal funding and making sure that what you do find is actually a good match for your organization, it’s easy to...

Pursuing Federal Grants Session 1 of the Federal Grant Development Series Register Now       Applying for federal grants can - to put it mildly - be daunting. In this training, we make it easier by guiding participants through the major components, the key similarities and differences between foundation and federal...

Organizational Readiness Session 3 of the Grant Funding Basics Series Register Now       Should your organization be applying for grants? Are you grant ready? What does grant ready mean anyway? This session examines the readiness of organizations for grant revenue starting at the top with the board, then it examines...

Relationships with Grant Funders Session 2 of the Grant Funding Basics Series Register Now       Beyond the Writing: How to cultivate and maintain meaningful relationships with grant funders Many agencies make the mistake of not treating grant funders as they do their major individual and/or corporate donors. This is understandable, especially...

Ethics: Grant Ethics for Consultants Session 8 of the Ethics Series Register Now       While all nonprofit professionals have many ethical issues to consider as they conduct pre-award and post-award grant activities, grant consultants have additional areas of which to be mindful because they run their own businesses instead...

Ethics: The Ethics of Program Implementation and Reporting After a Grant is Funded Session 7 of the Ethics Series Register Now       While ethics must be considered in all stages of the grant lifecycle, the part that most people worry about is program implementation and reporting. Here grant professionals...

Ethics: Organizational Capacity and Readiness Grant Ethics Session 3 of the Ethics Series Register Now       Issues of ethics abound when grant professionals examine their organization's readiness to apply for grants. Is the grant aligned to the organization's strategic plan or is the organization chasing money and causing mission...

Proposal narratives must reflect the deep social responsibilities of grant professionals to tell the stories of the target population, not just the story of the organization. Words have power, and grant professionals must use that power carefully and with great sensitivity to the clients who...

  We'll start with identifying grant-funding sources in Grants 101: Researching Grant Opportunities then qualify that research with Grants 201: Prospect Research. We'll guide you through the federal trends and tools you need to know in Federal Grants: Federal Find and Fit and consider the ethical questions...