Comprehensive Grant Writing For Beginners 7 Simple Steps

Go from cash-strapped to funded with the help of a fundraising expert.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.3

- Write a complete Grant application request
- Cultivate multi year funders
- Find many funders to meet the goals of your Organization

What you'll learn

Write a complete Grant application request

Cultivate multi year funders

Find many funders to meet the goals of your Organization

Proactively plan and manage your annual Grant Writing campaigns

* Requirements

* Be familiar with the mission
* vision and mandate of a non-profit organization.

Description

The course is a series of lectures, and includes downloaded forms.

In this course we learn which information and documents are essential in order to apply successfully for a breadth of Grant funding so that learners can best prepare to apply for funding.

We cover the types of Grants that are available, and for which needs. We review several resources (international) that list available Grants, and learn how to find even more Grants.

The course is hands-on and process oriented. Those taking the course will have the tools and preparation to apply for a number of grants.

The legal and ethical information applies to Canada and the United States, but also has applications internationally.

Karen Young has been a fundraising professional, and an author of books on the topic of fundraising.

Who this course is for:

For those with no prior experience in fundraising or writing grant applications.
Not for experienced fundraisers.

Course content

8 sections • 20 lectures

Introduction to Grant writing 2 lectures

Overview Preview 02:05

Who is this course for? Overview of the "7 simple steps" to write grants.

About the instructor, Karen Young. Preview 1 page

What you need to know 3 lectures

Ethics Preview 05:19

In which we cover:

A few definitions of fundraising.
Broad definition of who gives funds, and some restrictions for their giving.

We take a look at the ethics of fundraising including:

use of funds, matching funds, reporting
hiring a fundraiser: how, and the reasons why it has to work this way

Defining Grants: Operations, Project Preview 08:17

Categories of Grants

Operating funds
- definition
- what to watch out for
- funding some Operating expense, ethically
What to ask for: projects
- how to ask for all funds required
Project grants
- fee for service
- what to watch out for
- capital projects
  - how they may be funded
- Matching funds and in-kind donations