AGS Training

What does it mean to be grant ready?

There are so many questions to ask, like does this fit our mission? Are we prepared to implement services that are aligned to the funder’s mission? At what point do you go to the next level?

And when you have increased your grant readiness, how do you cultivate your pipeline of funding opportunities? How do you streamline your proposal creation? How do you track your grant deadlines, reports, and tasks? How are you mitigating your risk management?

In this training, presenter Julie Assel, GPC, CGMS, answers those questions and more as she guides participants through the continuum of grant readiness, strategies for tailoring the case statement to the funders' missions, and techniques for keeping the language current.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to engage and educate your board in grant readiness.
• How development staff can implement practices within their organization to increase grant readiness.
• Basic information your organization should track as you increase grant readiness: who is the contact, how you send your proposal, state of development, follow-up, reporting requirements.
• Building the capacity of and getting feedback/input from program staff to increase grant readiness.
• The continuum of grant readiness tends to begin and end with financial staff.

Presented By:  Julie Assel, GPC, CGMS, President/CEO Assel Grant Services