AGS Training

Ethics for Grant Proposal Need Statements
Session 4 of the Ethics Series

The way grant professionals describe the needs of their community is an important part of persuading reviewers and grant funders to award a grant. Which need is greatest and most aligned to the funders’ priorities? Three key areas related to ethics in this area are the use of statistics, the description of the context, and the importance of citation. Each of these issues are important to every grant written. Yet, in an area of online grant applications, questions abound regarding how to still maintain the strongest ethical course while providing the most persuasive answer to why a funder should choose a particular agency and project to fund. Join us for a lively debate on these issues faced by those who write grants regularly. 

What you will learn:

• Key areas of ethical concern in writing need statements
• Ways to address the most common challenges of statistics, context, and citations
• Why the answers to these issues aren’t as obvious as they seem

The trainers for these sessions are all credentialed grant professionals (GPCs) who agree to adhere to the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Code of Ethics and are GPA Approved Trainers. All of the trainings in this series align with the Grant Professionals Certification Institute's competencies and skills

GPCI Competencies and Skills: 3.1, 4.4, 6.3, 6.5

CEUs
This training aligns with the Grant Professional Certification Institute’s Competencies and Skills and is approved for 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU). Full participation in this training is also applicable for 1.0 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

Length: 60 minutes

Ethics Grant Training Series

So often ethics about grants are focused on the mismanagement of grant funding which gets flashy headlines in the news. But ethics are important throughout the full grant lifecycle from research to reporting. Each training will present information tied to grant and development codes of conduct, standard grant best practices, and case studies and will facilitate a question and answer session for each core topic.

Session 1: Grant Ethics Codes of Conduct: What Do They Say and Why are They Different
GPCI competency and skill: 7.2
October 20, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Session 2: Grant Ethics for Prospect Research and Funder Relationships
GPCI competency and skills: 2.8, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
February 4, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Session 3: Organizational Capacity and Readiness Grant Ethics
GPCI competency and skills: 2.6, 6.3, 6.8
March 10, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Session 4: Ethics for Grant Proposal Need Statements
GPCI competency and skills: 3.1, 4.4, 6.3, 6.5
April 28, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Session 5: The Ethics of Program Design: Plans and Partners
GPCI competency and skills: 3.2, 6.3, 6.8
June 9, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT1

Session 6: Creating Grant Budgets and Sustainability Plans within an Ethical Framework
GPCI competency and skills: 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 6.3, 6.6
August 25, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Session 7: The Ethics of Program Implementation and Reporting When Grant Funded
GPCI competency and skills: 5.2, 5.5, 6.7, 6.8
October 27, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Session 8: Grant Ethics for Consultants
November 3, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

The trainers for these sessions are all credentialed grant professionals (GPCs) who agree to adhere to the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) Code of Ethics and are GPA Approved Trainers. 

Format:

• Available as one-hour training sessions or bundled as a full series

Cost: $50/session or $400 for the full series