Grant Writing 102: How to Effectively Research Grant Funders to Ensure You Win the Grant!

If You're Unable to Attend the Live Webinar You Will Still Have Access to the Webinar Recording, Slides and Bonus Materials

** Please note, this webinar is intended for USA nonprofits only. **

Do you have a plan for identifying grant opportunities to apply to, or for researching potential grant funders? A systematic approach to both will yield winning results. Researching potential grant funders is a critical step in the grant development process. Having a solid understanding of a potential grant funder's funding history, current priorities, and application and funding process are critical to winning a grant.

Grant funder research involves a great deal more than contact information and deadlines. It includes understanding funding trends, priority interests, types of support provided and geographic focus. In addition, understanding the type of grant maker you are applying to will heavily impact the application and funding process.

Participating in "Grant Writing 102: How to Effectively Research Grant Funders to Ensure You Win the Grant!" will strengthen your initial grant funder relationship building efforts and ultimately your grant funding success.

In this live, interactive webinar we will discuss how to best use the most common paid databases utilized by US based nonprofits for foundation research and integrate that research with free research tools in order to draft an initial grant strategy. We will use proven tools and strategies to successfully compile the multitude of information and documents collected during the research process in order to create a prioritized proactive grant seeking strategy.

What You Will Learn from this Live Interactive Webinar

What is proactive grant seeking?

• Defining key information to focus on when researching grants and funders.
• Explaining why this research is an important step.
• Outlining how to use proactive research to increase grant revenue.

What are the options for grant research?

• Understanding the pros and cons of available paid database.
• Suggestions on a process for choosing a paid database.
• Using paid databases to effectively research potential grant funders.
• Using free research resources and options.
• Exploring supplemental free research resources (beyond Google!).
• Filling in the research blanks.

How do you develop a strategy and strategic manageable annual grant seeking plan?

• Demonstrating how to use proven tools to organize the mountains of electronic and hard copy records amassed during grant research.
• Creating an annual calendar of grant outreach and applications from your research.
• Setting the stage for grant funder relationship development: the next step after research and BEFORE submitting an application.

This Webinar is Perfect For You If...

• Proactive grant research is not a part of your current grant seeking process.
• Your grant research is limited to what you can find on Google.
• You are new to grant seeking and aren't sure what information to focus on in all of the databases.

This webinar is targeted to US based nonprofit organizations as the databases and tools highlighted in this webinar rely heavily on information provided by the US IRS 990 form.

This Webinar Includes the Following Supporting Material

1. A tool for tracking your research results.
2. A tool for managing your application deadlines.
3. A free 30 minute follow-up consultation with Diane about your agency specific research questions.

About Your Topic Expert

Diane H. Leonard, GPC, ST, SM, SPO is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC) and Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association and Certified Virtual Trainer. Diane is also a Scrum Trainer,  Scrum Master, and Scrum Product Owner through Scrum inc.

Since 2006, Diane and her team have secured more than $66.75 million dollars in competitive grant awards for the clients of DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. She is an active member of the Grant Professionals Association.

When not working with her team on grant applications for clients, Diane can be found in the 1000 Islands, out for a run, or drinking a strong cup of coffee.