Building a Grant-Ready Organization

Build your grant readiness! Assess your nonprofit’s documents, programs, budgets, data, and capacity before applying for funding.
About this Event

Building a Grant-Ready Organization
Before You Apply for Another Grant

Finding a grant is one thing. Being ready for the grant is another.

Building a Grant-Ready Organization is a practical, interactive workshop designed to help nonprofit leaders strengthen the foundation of their organization before submitting another grant application.

During this workshop, we'll move beyond grant writing and focus on what it takes to receive, manage, measure, and report on funding successfully. Participants will examine their organization's documents, programs, budgets, data, and internal capacity while identifying gaps that could impact their ability to compete for and manage grant funding.

What You'll Learn

Participants will learn how to:

• Determine whether a grant opportunity is truly a good fit
• Assess their organization's overall grant readiness
• Identify key organizational and financial documents to have prepared
• Clearly connect community needs, program activities, outcomes, and impact
• Develop realistic and measurable program outcomes
• Build program budgets that support the grant narrative
• Create a more strategic approach to finding and pursuing grants

This isn't a workshop where you'll spend the morning listening to a lecture. Come prepared to work on your organization.

You'll leave with practical tools, including a Grant Readiness Self-Assessment, Organizational Document Checklist, Program Planning Worksheet, Grant Readiness Checklist, and a 30-Day Action Plan to help you continue the work after the workshop.

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is ideal for:

• New and emerging nonprofit organizations
• Small and grassroots nonprofits
• Executive directors and nonprofit leaders
• Program managers and staff
• Board members
• Church and faith-based ministry leaders
• Anyone responsible for grants, programs, budgets, or organizational development

Whether you're preparing to apply for your first grant or wondering why your organization isn't having the grant success you hoped for, this workshop will help you identify what needs to be in place before you apply again.

Stop chasing every grant. Build an organization that's ready for the right one.

Workshop sponosred by Impact Inner-City Church