Welcome to our course on everything you need to know to write your first grant.
This course is designed for new nonprofit founders and nonprofit leaders new to the nonprofit world who want to understand how grants work. With this course, we want to help you get ready to write your first grant application.
This course will guide you through the information you need to collect about your organization before you submit any applications, the main components of grant applications, and help you organize your organization's information so you can make this process easier.
This course is divided into 5 levels:
- Grant Writing 101
- Myths about grants + how to introduce your organization to funders
- Sharing your numbers
- Everything you need to know about government grants
- Bonus Level:Â How to effectively work with a grant writer
Course Curriculum
Introduction
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Level 1: Grant Basics
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- Welcome to Level 1
- History of Philanthropic Giving in the United States
- Section 1 - Grant Basics: What is a grant? (6:37)
- Section 2 - Diversify your funding sources (3:25)
- Section 3 - Sections of every grant proposal (2:00)
- Section 4 - Grant prospecting (3:15)
- Section 5 - Are you ready to write a grant? (4:05)
Level 1: Worksheets and resources
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Level 2: Myths about grants and how to introduce your organization and needs.
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Level 3: Sharing your numbers
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- Welcome to Level 3
- Logic Models: Friend, Not Foe!
- Section 8: Impact Evaluation. Part 1 & 2 (12:36)
- All the ways nonprofit budgets go wrong
- Section 9: Budgets (5:19)
- Section 10: Future Support & Sustainability (2:26)
- Section 11: Maintaining Relationship with Funders (3:11)
- Section 12: Final Notes on Foundation Grants (2:58)
Level 3: Worksheets and resources
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Level 4: Everything you need to know about government grants
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Level 5: How to effectively work with a grant consultant
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Course Feedback
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