Don't Leave Your Grants to Chance!
Navigating the grant landscape is a strategic endeavor, not a game of chance. In today's competitive environment, securing vital resources demands a strategic approach. Grantegy provides educational courses, expert coaching and a collaborative community. Get the help you need to secure the grant funds that your community needs! This Comprehensive Program Enables You To: • Succeed Through Strat
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Master the Art and Science of conducting a Feasibility Study for more Effective Grant Development In today's competitive funding landscape with low grant approval rates and ongoing challenges, thorough and strategic preparation is crucial for securing grant funding. This course equips participants with the essential skills and knowledge to conduct effective feasibility studies and assess their organization's grant readiness. This comprehensive course empowers you to: Learn to conduct your own feasibility studies: Gain practical skills to analyze your organization's strengths and weaknesses, including leadership, program impact, and financial health. Understand the importance of research and documentation: Discover how comprehensive research and meticulous documentation are vital for crafting compelling grant proposals. Navigate Impact and financial requirements: Gain insights into the legal and financial prerequisites associated with grant applications. Increase your organization's grant success rate: Enhance your organization's competitiveness and confidently navigate the grant application process. What you'll gain: Interactive lessons: Learn from engaging content and real-world examples provided by Valerie herself. Practical applications: Apply your learning with downloadable templates, instructional videos, and assignments. Expert guidance: Get access to Valerie's insights and 25+ years of experience throughout the course. Improved grant success: Increase your chances of securing funding and making your vision a reality. Who should enroll Nonprofit leaders and staff Grant writers Fundraisers Anyone seeking to secure grant funding for their organization Invest in your organization's future. Enroll in the Grant Feasibility Study Course today!
Grant Optimization: Maximize Your Grant-Seeking Success Master the art of grant optimization and unlock the full potential of your grant-seeking efforts with this comprehensive course by Founder and CEO of Consulting Services LLC, Valerie A. Grant, GPC. Building upon the foundation established in our Grant Feasibility Studiy course, this program empowers organizations to develop strategic and efficient grant-seeking strategies, significantly increasing their chances of securing funding. What You’ll Gain: Uncover grant optimization strategies: Gain a deep understanding of grant optimization as a crucial component of the grant development process. Leverage feasibility study findings: Utilize your organization's feasibility study results to identify areas for improvement and optimize your grant-seeking approach. Develop actionable optimization plans: Learn to create customized optimization plans with clear goals, milestones, and practical steps that ensure team engagement and sustainable success. Master project management and evaluation: Enhance your expertise in project management and evaluation techniques, addressing common challenges like limited time and resources. Boost grant readiness and impact: Significantly improve your organization's grant readiness and overall impact, setting the stage for achieving impactful outcomes in the competitive grant funding landscape. What you'll gain: Interactive lessons: Learn from engaging content and real-world examples provided by Valerie herself. Practical applications: Apply your learnings with downloadable templates, instructional videos, and assignments. Expert guidance: Get access to Valerie's insights and experience throughout the course. Improved grant success: Increase your chances of securing funding and making your vision a reality. Who should attend: Nonprofit leaders and staff Grant writers and fundraisers Individuals seeking to optimize their organization's grant-seeking process Invest in your organization's future and unlock the power of grant optimization. Enroll today!
Grant Optimized Project Design, led by Valerie A. Grant, GPC, Founder & CEO of Grant Consulting Services LLC, is a comprehensive course designed for individuals and organizations keen on mastering project design to secure grant funding effectively. Amidst the increasing competition for grants and limited funding, this course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to craft impactful project design. It covers essential aspects such as needs assessment, goal setting, activity planning, budgeting, and evaluation planning, with a particular emphasis on utilizing SMART objectives as a framework. This course is structured to provide a theoretical understanding of project design and practical applications and strategies to align projects with organizational goals, ensuring they address community needs and fulfill organizational missions. This comprehensive course empowers you to: Master essential project design skills: Learn needs assessment, goal setting, activity planning, budgeting, and evaluation planning with a focus on SMART objectives. Align projects with your mission: Ensure your projects address community needs and fulfill your organization's unique goals. Make a lasting impact: Learn to measure project outcomes and demonstrate the positive difference you make. What you'll gain: Interactive lessons: Learn from engaging content and real-world examples provided by Valerie herself. Practical applications: Apply your learnings with downloadable templates, instructional videos, and assignments. Expert guidance: Get access to Valerie's insights and experience throughout the course. Improved grant success: Increase your chances of securing funding and making your vision a reality. Who should enroll: Nonprofit leaders and staff Project managers Individuals passionate about making a difference Anyone seeking to design impactful projects and secure grant funding Invest in your success: Enroll in Grant Optimized Project Design today and unlock the power of effective project design.
In this transformative course, you will unlock the power of relationships to supercharge your grant success. Discover how to cultivate a positive, collaborative team dynamic that breaks down silos and fosters cross-functional collaboration. Learn proven strategies to build genuine, lasting connections with funders, and explore innovative ways to showcase your organization's impact and value. By the end of this course, you will have the tools and confidence to create a strong foundation of trust and collaboration that will elevate your grant-seeking efforts to new heights. This comprehensive course empowers you to: - Master the art of building and maintaining powerful relationships with both internal and external stakeholders - Unleash the potential of your grant team through effective communication, shared purpose, and a culture of empowerment - Forge strategic partnerships with key departments to create a cohesive, grant-winning organization - Captivate funders with compelling stories, personalized outreach, and a commitment to transparency - Harness the power of networking and online platforms to expand your reach and attract new funding opportunities - Deepen funder relationships through creative appreciation, genuine connections, and demonstrable impact What you'll gain: - Interactive lessons: Learn from engaging content and real-world examples provided by Valerie herself. - Practical applications: Apply your learnings with downloadable templates, instructional videos, and assignments. - Expert guidance: Get access to Valerie's insights and experience throughout the course. - Improved grant success: Increase your chances of securing funding and making your vision a reality. - GPC Continuing Education Credits: Grantegy Courses are eligible for GPC continuing education credits through GPCI’s Accepted Education Program. Who should enroll: - Nonprofit leaders and staff - Project managers - Individuals passionate about making a difference - Anyone seeking to learn more about relationship building with grantmakers and teams! Invest in your success: Enroll in Grantegy! Relationships Matters today to become a relationship-building rockstar, equipped with the skills and strategies to achieve long-term grant success.
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Valerie, the founder and CEO of Grant Consulting Services LLC, discusses the impact and role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the grants profession, addressing whether AI is a friend or foe. She clarifies that AI, often referred to as augmented intelligence, is meant to enhance human intelligence, not replace it. Valerie highlights two types of AI: ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) for specific tasks like facial recognition and recommending products online, and Generative AI, which can create text, audio, and visual content and includes Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini (formerly Bard). She notes that AI should not be considered a source of factual information but can help generate text, which should always be fact-checked. Regarding ethical considerations, Valerie references a statement from the Grant Professionals Association and emphasizes that it is the user's responsibility to ensure ethical AI use. Valerie describes practical applications of AI in grant writing, including summarizing content, rewriting for clarity, SEO content optimization, recording and transcribing meetings, and initial grant research. She advises caution regarding privacy and the use of personal data. The course covers prompt engineering, a technique to efficiently use AI tools. Valerie shares examples of how to use AI prompts to improve grant proposals, align objectives with donors' focus areas, trim character counts, project outcomes, identify relevant grant-makers, and refine project objectives. She asserts that AI can save time, enabling better relationship development in a professional capacity. Valerie concludes by mentioning her use of various AI tools for research and the compilation of this course, guiding viewers to courses by Grants for Good and Instruments. Finally, she invites further discussion on AI in grant development.
Are you tired of your grant proposals getting lost in the slush pile? The competition for grant funding is fierce, and the approval rates are declining. But there's good news! You can increase your chances of success by learning to speak the funder's language. This course will teach you how to: Research funders like a language scholar: Discover the best resources to understand a foundation's priorities, including websites, RFPs, 990s, and social media. Learn how to identify funding opportunities that are a perfect fit for your organization. Connect with the "native speakers": Network with program officers and grantmakers to gain valuable insights and build relationships. Write proposals that resonate with funders: Craft compelling narratives and budgets that use the funder's specific vocabulary and align with their funding priorities. Demonstrate your impact: Learn how to effectively communicate the "why" behind your work and the positive change it creates in your community. By the end of this lesson you will be able to: Develop targeted grant proposals that win funding. Increase your organization's visibility to potential funders. Build stronger relationships with grantmakers. This lesson is perfect for: Nonprofit professionals who are responsible for the grant development process. Board members who want to understand the grant application process. Anyone who wants to learn how to secure funding for their projects or organizations. Don't let the competition silence your voice. View this lesson to learn how to speak the funder's language!
Felena Hanson Interviews Valerie A. Grant, GPC about non-profit, business startups and grant funding. Grant Consulting Services, LLC helps make the world a better place for all people. We engage in the fight against systemic giants of injustice, assist in remedies of inequality, and collaborate to empower the disenfranchised. Working with organizations across the globe that help people, Grant Consulting Services, LLC assists in feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, cultivating the arts, student learning, and combating the effects of global warming. We give a voice to the unheard and inspire the compassion and unity of all people. We provide comprehensive grant development services to organizations around the globe. Grant development services include a grant feasibility study and optimization report, program design, funding research, grant proposal writing, grant critiquing, and grant compliance/reporting. Let our experience work for you. We have a great success rate and understanding of what the grant-makers are looking for in a proposal. We can save you time and potential headaches while helping you to become fully funded.
When it comes to grants, having clear and measurable objectives is essential for success. This is where SMART objectives come into play. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Let's break down each of these elements and explore why they are important in the context of grants. First, being specific means clearly defining what you hope to accomplish with your program. Vague objectives make it difficult to assess progress and may lead to wasted resources. By setting specific objectives, you provide a clear direction for your grant and enable better planning and decision-making. For example, instead of setting a vague objective like "improve education," a specific objective might be "increase literacy rates by 15% among elementary school students in a target community." Next, measuring your objectives allows you to track progress and determine if your efforts are yielding the desired results. Measurable objectives are crucial for monitoring and evaluating the impact of your grant. They provide a basis for assessing whether you are on track or need to make adjustments. For example, a measurable objective could be "train 100 teachers in evidence-based teaching strategies and assess the impact on student test scores." The SMART framework can help provide detailed information about programs that grantmakers want to see in applications. The SMART breakdown Specific-Who and What of program activities. Be specific in all of the other categories too! Measurable- e.g. We will reduce the number of hungry students in our region by 20% over the next year…The greater the specificity, the better the evaluation effectiveness. Achievable-Make sure the time frame and being able to do what was said is really attainable. E.g. we will hire 1 nutrition intervention nurse to serve 10,000 K-5 age students in one year. That is not achievable. More realistic is serving 150 school-age children with health assessments, etc. Do you think this makes the objective more reasonable? Relevant (Realistic)-We Want the objectives to tie back to the needs and the goal. What is going to help solve the problem? Time-Based (Timely)-Think of the grant period. Make sure these objectives are achievable within the time frame given. Another way to start an objective is to use a time frame so the funder gets a good idea from the start.
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