AGS Training

The Ethics of Program Design: Plans and Partners
Session 5 of the Ethics Series 

Creating a high-quality grant proposal can be challenging when organizations may also be designing the program at the same time. Alignment to the mission of the organization and its strategic plan versus chasing funding can lead to ethical questions. This can become even more complicated when adding community partners to a grant project. Creating a quality partnership requires trust, but often partnering in a grant together breeds distrust due to each organization fearing they are losing out on funding they could be receiving. This session will examine the issues of ethics which develop while a program is being developed and a grant proposal is being created.

It will examine issues of program alignment and internal approval, how to involve partners in program design, how to describe a partner and partnership, how partners services are compensated and how this compensation is described, and how funder intent should be carefully considered in all of these matters.

What you will learn:

• How to navigate ethical considerations regarding
• New program design, especially leadership involvement and approval
• The level of involvement of partners in program design
• The level of involvement of partners in grant proposal creation
• The level of financial compensation and commitment of partners in grant budgets
• How funder intent should drive how these issues are handled in order to avoid ethical challenges

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: 3.2, 6.3, 6.8

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 Needs 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