Go beyond grants to grow the confidence and capacity of nonprofits in your community.

Community foundations are in position to empower and equip their nonprofit partners to be successful. Enlist Grants Plus to deliver a dynamic educational training or interactive webinar that prepares your grantees to build and pursue a diversified grant seeking strategy.

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A transformational day of learning from the leading experts in grant seeking.

Based on our engagement with many hundreds of nonprofit organizations and their local community foundations, we have honed three key components for a high-impact, interactive day of learning and skill building:

Morning Segment

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Foundations of Relationship-Based Grant Seeking

 

Organizations often struggle to gain traction with new funders because they overlook the importance of what must come before writing the grant proposal: developing trust and relationships with grant makers. Our morning session will lay the groundwork for grant seeking success by teaching participants how to open doors and warm up opportunities with the funders their organizations are best suited to pursue.

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"Ask the Expert" Speed Coaching Sessions

 

In between training sessions, we will provide attendees with private coaching sessions with a Grants Plus expert. These 1:1 consultations will help participants personalize the training experience and immediately apply the content they've learned. Our Grants Plus coaches are empathetic listeners and proactive problem solvers. We'll help participants tackle their most pressing grant seeking challenges, from surmounting funder relationship hurdles to improving a draft grant application, and emerge with clear steps they can put into action.

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Deep Dive into Advanced Grant Seeking Topics

 

With a foundation of relationship-based grant seeking under their feet, participants will be ready to dive into deeper waters. We have honed interactive learning sessions on "next level" topics in grant seeking that equip participants with the skill and confidence to drive their grant seeking strategies forward. We will collaborate with you to plan an afternoon segment on one or more of our suggested topics or we can create a customized session at your request.

"The Grants Plus team truly helped nonprofits get to a new level of comfort with grant writing. We are continually looking for ways to be better partners to our nonprofit community, while sticking true to our mission of making transformational grants. The presentation today helped us do that on a much deeper level."

Clare Zlatic Blankemeyer
IMPACT 100

"This workshop gave new insight and a refreshing approach to creating winning grant proposals! The room was buzzing as participants shared how beneficial it was and 100% rated it completely worthwhile!"

Lori Wiebe
THE RAYMOND JOHN WEAN FOUNDATION

"You facilitated a terrific combination of knowledge and small group work, and had everyone discussing and asking great questions."

Ann Kent
BVU: THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE

"Over the years, the knowledgeable members of the Grants Plus team have been amazing resources to Akron Community Foundation and our nonprofit partners. This includes the virtual training we co-hosted together that provided attendees with useful and current information for grant seeking. We value our partnership with Grants Plus and will continue counting on them in the future."

John Garofalo
AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

By giving grantees the opportunity to learn and practice techniques for finding and pursuing new funding opportunities, you'll prepare them to be more resourceful, strategic, and successful at fulfilling their missions.

Impact the nonprofits in your community by hosting a Grants Plus training.

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