Win Grants to Support Your Cause!

How To Win Grants is a new grantsmanship training site dedicated to enhancing your growth and empowerment via affordable professional development. Each course is composed of lectures, assignments, downloadable documents, and opportunities for online interaction to make learning personalized and enjoyable. By participating in our courses, you will discover how to secure grant funding while honing your program development and management skills. 

How To Win Grants: The Fundamentals

Our first offering is How To Win Grants: The Fundamentals. This course covers:

  • getting your organization ready to win grants,
  • locating funding opportunities that are right for you,
  • understanding the components of a high-quality proposal, and
  • managing the proposal preparation and submission processes.

You will finish the course with a rough draft of your first proposal as well as a basic plan to begin seeking grants!

More Courses to Come

Courses planned for upcoming months will provide deeper dives into additional topics. These include:

  • how to develop federal grant proposals,
  • how to prepare budgets and budget narratives,
  • how to create logic models,
  • how to manage grant-funded programs,
  • how to write compelling progress reports, and
  • much more.


Merlene Vassall, JD

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