While funders like to believe that their grants are very accessible to the average person, what anyone who has ever tried to get a grant understands is they are a tremendous amount of work and engage a unique form of communication. There is a language and tone to successful grants and that language and tone is not always natural for many artists or first time grant writers. Grants ask you specific questions that tie your content to your process to your timeline to your budget. Very few artists work this way. My workshops are intended to de-mystify grant speak and to help artists develop a grant strategy and process that works for them and their practice. These workshops are a critical first building block for folks who have never been successful at writing grants.
Think Like a Funder: Grant Writing 101
This grant writing course takes you through the landscape of arts funding and will help you develop a grant writing practice you can build on. Identify and authentically write the key elements of a proposal: narrative, activities, evaluation, key personnel, and budgets and learn some do’s and don’ts. A critical first building block for folks who have never been successful at writing grants.
Grant Writing Strategy for Non-Profits
Learn how to effectively communicate the fullness of your organizational and financial story and sharpen your grant writing language. Learn about the four types of capital that are at your organization's disposal and use this to create a solid narrative. Learn the key elements of a proposal: narrative, activities, evaluation, key personnel, budgets and learn some do’s and don’ts.