Understanding Grant Guidelines &
Responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Careful review and response to grant guidelines are critical elements to winning a grant award. This course provides greater detail about the grant proposal submission process. It covers the basics such as: organizing grant documents, determining whether and how to respond to a grant request for proposal, reading and reviewing grant guidelines, forming organizational talking points, delegating grant writing tasks to a team and more. The course covers weighted review criteria popular with grant makers today and how to address exactly the points presented. Participants will walk away with a criteria checklist and process that can be applied to any guidelines or RFP process.

Objectives:

After completing this course, learners should be able to do the following:

· Develop an organized approach to respond to funding opportunities;

· Organize grant writing projects and teams;

· Set up a grants management process;

· Collect supporting documentation;

· Determine organizational competencies;

· Estimate project costs and schedule.

Who Should Attend?

· Grants managers who need a more efficient way of responding to funding opportunities.

· Grant writers who need help organizing proposal responses.

· Individuals who require an introduction to grants management.

· Any individual who needs help estimating project resource costs and time.

This workshop is taught by Ira Revels. This is an in-person workshop taking place at the Middletown Library Service Center.

Cost: Free
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
9 am to 12:30 pm
Middletown Library Service Center (MLSC), 786 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457
To register, visit https://cslib.libcal.com/event/5058630

(The snow date for this session is Wednesday March 13, same time, same location.)

Comments from evaluations from a previous class:

"Ira Revels was a terrific, knowledgeable and focused presenter."

"Thank you for the list of funding resources and for your expertise! A wonderful presentation,"

"Also liked comments on how to convey passion for project in grant writing"

"Excellent, excellent, so much to learn"

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