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In conjuction with Procopio & Associates Fundraising, Eric Davis is teaching Competitive Grant Writing in his hometown of Shamokin, PA on August 20, 2010.

Grant seeking has never been more competitive than today. With information on grant opportunities so broadly available, most grant making foundations and agencies receive hundreds more worthy grant proposals for each funding cycle than they could ever fund. Learn to pre-judge your grant proposals by thinking like a grant maker. Give your proposals the competitive edge of a serious grant seeker. If you are ready to get serious about grant writing, invest a day honing your skills with proven techniques for generating support.

At the class you, will learn about:

• Crafting the Letter of Inquiry
• Developing and accessing proposal ideas
• Technical components of a proposal
• Criteria that grant makers use in evaluating proposals
• Editing and packaging proposals
• Advanced foundation research tips
• Story-telling with passion and commitment
• Quantifying Objectives and setting Performance Indicators and Outcome Projections for your grant-funded programs
• Designing Evaluation Methodologies for your grant-funded projects
• Demonstrating Financial Sustainability, and how that makes or breaks your proposal
• Budgets and the all-important Budget Narrative
• New trends in proposal formatting: imbedding photos, using color, etc.
• Follow-up with grant makers and cultivation of relationships
• Strategies for creating winning state and federal proposals

Cost is $150 (Lunch is included!)

Call Eric Davis at 412.434.4911 ext 11 for more information or to register for the class.