For K-12, Colleges/Universities, Nonprofits, and Government Agencies
SUCCESSFUL GRANT WRITING
October 11-12 (Monday-Tuesday)
Time: Registration begins at 8:30am
Program is 9:00am to 4:30pm, both days.
Location: Wake Tech Business & Industry Center
3434 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary, NC
Directions
Download an Informational flyer and registration form:
October 11-12
Review participants' evaluation of earlier GrantProse workshops here...
Hotels close to the Western Wake Technical Community College site include:
Courtyard by Marriott: (919) 481-9666
La Qunita: (919) 851-2850
Hampton Inn: (919) 859-5559
Cost of Workshop (refreshments provided, lunch on your own)
$ 235
For Other Information
Contact Mary Brady at Wake Tech
(919.335.1014, mobrady@waketech.edu)
OVERVIEW
This two-day grant-writing training program is most appropriate for individuals with Beginning to Intermediate or Advanced skills and experience with developing grant proposals. The Novice will probably find this workshop to be too fast-paced. Members of K-12 schools, nonprofit organizations, and local government agencies will benefit most from the training. Registration is limited to 30 participants so as to provide an intense and individualized training experience.
| Novice Know nothing about grants | Beginner Done some work on grants |
Intermediate Have won one or a few grants | Advanced Have won multiple grants |
LOCATION
Western Wake Tech Community College. The Western WTCC facilities offer state-of-the-art technologies and room to spread out, network, and collaborate. Directions...
COST
Cost for the two-day training is $235! This price is half what other nationally-based providers charge for training programs of similar content.
Based in North Carolina and supporting the Grants Information Network of NC, the high-quality training offered by GrantProse, Inc. is tailored to the interests of North Carolina citizens and organizations.
FAST-PACED TRAINING
What experience do you have with preparing grant proposals? On the continuum from Beginner to Intermediate to Advanced, classify yourself:
... the Beginner may have been a member of a grant-writing team and helped to prepare parts of a proposal;
... the Intermediate has been in charge of preparing and and submitting a couple of grants, often for relatively small $$, and may have won some grant awards; and
... the Advanced person has prepared and submitted many grant proposals, including ones for large $$, and has secured a variety of awards from different sources.
From the descriptions above, individuals with Beginner to Intermediate experience with grant-writing will benefit the most from this workshop. If you've written a grant but didn't win it, or if you've written and won a number of grants, you will learn new tricks-of-the-trade at this training. Novices who have never written a grant are welcome if you're prepared for a fast-paced training that will cover a lot of material. Individuals with Advanced skills will also find the training valuable as a means of reassessing your approach to proposal development. Participants will get to engage each other in discussion and will identify new opportunities for networking and collaborations.
HOW TO PREPARE
Bring a laptop or some other suitable writing instrument (even a pencil will do). Also, identify a grant funding opportunity of interest to you and bring the request for proposal (RFP) for this grant. Or, you could bring a grant proposal that you have previously submitted but didn't win, or even one that you did win. You might identify a grant opportunity on the Internet that you could bring. One place to start looking is the Grant Alerts posted on this website. With a proposal or RFP in hand, the participants at this workshop will be divided into pairs or small groups to work together over the two days. In these pairs or small groups, you will develop text to respond to the grant or RFP that you have in hand, and you will critique the text of others in your group. The small groups will in turn share with the entire group. In this interactive fashion, everyone learns from everyone.
ABOUT BILL CARRUTHERS
Dr. Bill Carruthers has more than 15 years experience writing and winning grants. Currently, he is the President/CEO of GrantProse, Inc., providing consultation and training services on grant writing and management. In his previous employment he helped to secure more than $60 million in grant funds from all manner of sources. Now, in the past two years in his business, Bill has helped agencies secure more than $8 million in grant funding (see the GrantProse Awards page). Bill is a past board member of the National Grants Management Association and founding member of the Grants Information Network of NC.
Bill and GrantProse Associates will instruct a "systemic" approach to writing grants--an approach that can be used time and again with small and large grants from funding sources as varied as federal, state, local, foundation, corporation, professional associations and other sources. Central to Dr. Carruthers' system is the Logic Model. Bill will show how a well organized Logic Model provides the foundation to all major elements of a grant proposal. And, if you've ever struggled with writing a goal statement or those pesky SMART objectives, Bill will show you how easy it is to write these.