AFP NC Triangle Chapter: Skills Building Workshops - Mamma Mia! The Recipe for Grant Writing Success

Successful grant writing is like making a great dish. You need the right ingredients, assembled well, and, of course, a great presentation! More than filling out an application, grant writing is sharing the “business plan” of your program with a potential funder. This course will offer tips for success in all the phases of grant writing and the funding cycle, including one of the most important, and often forgotten, steps – planning!
The course will address key elements of the Pre-writing phase:

Involving your team in the planning process
Aligning the grant application with your strategic plan

And will provide tips for success in each of these key areas of proposal writing:

Need – The problem/opportunity
Solution – How your program will address the problem/opportunity
Program budget
Your team’s qualifications to deliver the program
Collaboration
Timeline
Desired outcome/s – measurement/evaluation
Sustainability
Donor stewardship
Reporting – actual outcomes

The course offers you a practical “taste” of real-world grant writing scenarios and will feature several interactive breakout exercises for participants to learn from others’ experiences. Participants are encouraged to complete a pre-event survey that will be sent upon registration on problem areas of grant writing.

Speaker biography:
Laura M. Ridgeway, CFRE, has over 20 years of nonprofit and community leadership experience. Her areas of specialty are community collaboration, fundraising, grant writing, Board development, and strategic planning. Ridgeway is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the NC Dental Society Foundation, which provides education, prevention, and treatment of adults and children from underserved households through free dental clinic settings. She earned her Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), the top globally recognized credential for development professionals, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Triangle Chapter.

Date: April 14, 2021
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Cost: $40.00 for AFP Triangle members; $75.00 for non-members

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