When: Available On-Demand!

Cost: $75

Who Should Attend: Nonprofit professionals who want to be prepared to navigate the federal grant process with confidence.

Many foundation grants allow you to provide your project budget in your own format, but not federal grant agencies. All federal agencies have their own form which must be used to convey the costs associated with the program, both the cost requested and any matching funds or in-kind funds which may also be part of the program budget. This session will discuss the most common budget categories required by almost of the federal agencies so agencies can begin discussing these categories early in their proposal development. In addition, this session will discuss the most effective ways to fill out these forms and the most common errors made with each type of form so you don’t have an error which prevents your application from being submitted at the last minute.

What you will learn:

  • The most common federal budget categories
  • How to fill out budget forms for the most commons federal departments 
  • The most common errors made with each type of form


This is a self-study course in which each participant is required to complete all elements of the training to receive any and all CPE credits and CE units.

These elements include:

  • Watching all video content in full
  • Completing all embedded engagement activities
  • Completing all evaluation forms
  • Completing the final assessment with a passing score of at least 70%
  • Completing all course elements, including the assessment, within one year of the date of purchase or enrollment


Instructional Delivery Method: Self-Study
Recommended NASBA CPE Credits: 2.0
GPCI/CFRE Approved CEU Credits: 1.0
Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge
Knowledge Level: Basic
Prerequisite Education, Experience, or Advance Preparation: None

Presented by:
Charlie Sagona, GPC

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Assel Grant Services is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org

Course curriculum

    1. About this Course

    2. Meet Your Instructors

    3. Course Materials

    4. Video: Federal Grant Development - Federal Budget Forms

    5. Post-Presentation Assessment/Quiz - Federal Budget Forms

    6. Course Evaluation Form

    7. Instructor Evaluation Form

About this course

  • $75.00
  • 7 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

The trainers for these sessions are all credentialed grant professionals (GPCs) through the Grant Professional Certification Institute, Approved Trainers with the Grant Professionals Association, and/or credentialed Certified Grant Management Specialists (CGMS) through the National Grant Management Association. All of the trainings in this series align with the CGMS exam classification system and the Grant Professionals Certification Institute’s competencies and skills, and are approved for Continuing Education Units (CEU) by GPCI and CFRE International.