AGS Training

Grants 301: Managing Up
Session 5 of the Grants 301 Series 

One of the greatest challenges we face as grant professionals is getting the information and resources needed to craft project ideas and develop competitive proposals. This information is often spread across multiple people and departments…from finance to program managers to senior level staff and CEOs. This session will teach what it means to manage up and across, and how to do it with exercises and real-life examples. We will discuss in-depth two specific management tools that can help you effectively manage others during the project development phase and through proposal completion to help everyone succeed. You will walk away with key tools to help you get what you need, when you need it and increase your productivity!

The participant will learn:

• How to define what managing up and across is;
• To gain and improve skills to effectively manage up and across, including exercises to practice
• How to implement new tools to better manage others in the grants process.

CEUs 

 This training aligns with the Grant Professional Certification Institute’s Competencies and Skills and is approved for 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU).

GPC Competencies:
GPCI Competency 3: Knowledge of strategies for effective program and project design and development

GPC Competency 7: Knowledge of practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers

Length: 60:00

Presented By: 
Tracey Diefenbach, GPC, Assistant Director Assel Grant Services

Tracey Diefenbach, GPC

Tracey Diefenbach is the Assistant Director for Assel Grant Services and a Grant Professional Association Approved Trainer. Prior to joining the team, she was the Director of Grants for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri for over eight years, helping to secure over $15 million in government, foundation and corporate funding. Tracey has over 14 years of experience in research and writing grants focused in the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan Region and a strong background in youth services, including mentoring, positive youth development, and homeless youth services.