Wednesday, February 1 2012

8:30 AM

Essential Grant Skills

 

In just two days, The Grantsmanship Center's Essential Grant Skills workshop will give you the powerful tools, concepts, insights, approaches, and methods that have spelled grant success for thousands--since The Grantsmanship Center created the first training programs for grantseekers in 1972.

Essential Grant Skills will provide

  • a solid overview of the entire grants process--government, foundation, and corporate
  • an in-depth look at the areas that pose the toughest problems, even for seasoned grants professionals
  • practical tools to overcome those hurdles

This is an interactive workshop. Instead of listening to a lecture for hours on end, you'll actually practice what you're learning. And you'll do it all under the guidance of a skilled and experienced trainer who knows how to hold your interest and keep you engaged.

You'll leave with a tangible work product: a custom-crafted outline of core proposal elements, tailored specifically for your organization, giving you a head start on future grant proposals.

After completing the Essential Grant Skills workshop, you may access The Grantsmanship Center's database of foundation, corporate, and government funders for six months (a $250 value!) at no extra charge.

Tuition for this two-day workshop is $445. There are a limited number of partial scholarships for nonprofit organizations with budgets less than $300,000. To reserve a place in this training, you can register online or call The Grantsmanship Center's Registrar at (800) 421-9512.

9 AM

A QuickBooks Primer: Making your job more efficient and less complicated

Save Time and Money!

Is your nonprofit using QuickBooks to its fullest potential? Let us help you enhance your proficiency by providing a comprehensive overview of record keeping, financial statements, data assembly for strategic decision making, managing grant and loan applications and improving overall financial reporting. You will learn all of these skills and many more during this session!
Pricing:
TANO Members - $99
Non-TANO Members - $125
(Some scholarships available: contact Mary Beth Harrington at mbharrington@tano.org for more details)

Why You Should Attend

This class is for you if:

  • You've inherited the bookkeeping job, but haven't had much training or experience
  • You've never used QuickBooks before, but now your job requires it
  • You've used QuickBooks for years, but don't quite understand the bookkeeping reasons behind the transactions
  • You're a decision maker, but don't know what reports QuickBooks can generate for you
  • You're a grant writer and need to put together budgets and pro-forma financials for your applications
  • You have to assist in your organization's audit and tax return preparation, but don't know how to get the data you need

Come join us for a day, invest eight hours in some training, and we guarantee that we can make your job more efficient and less complicated!

 

What Others Say About This Class
"I am so glad I took this class! I have been using QuickBooks for years but this class helped me to understand the accounting behind what I was doing so that I can better prepare for our audit!"

 

"Cheryl is wonderful! She is so patient and answered every question I had, even the ones I did not know I had!"

 

"I loved that this was not a software class but a class on how we can use QuickBooks for efficiently. I was able to incorporate the tips I learned the very next day!"

2 PM

We Have to Get Funded - What Did I Do Wrong?

We have to get funded- What did I do wrong?
 
Okay, so you’ve attended the free sessions you heard advertised, you’ve registered for grants.gov, and you get enough free e-newsletters to choke your inbox- but still got the declined letter? We have to get funded- What did I do wrong How do you write a grant that will get funded? This webinar is designed to help you filter through and drive to the core of what you need to make your case and “make money”. The goal for the webinar is to point you to resources that will help you figure out how move up to the next step and get funded. It might be as simple as having better data, a different marketing approach to the program concept, or improving the readability analysis, and this webinar will incorporate those and more. Among the sites we will explore are Policy Map, data collection centers, master-planning organizations for each state, and Urban Institute.  If you are missing essential pieces, if you don’t have the critical numbers to make your case, that could be why your application is not being funded and some other project is being funded.  This webinar is designed to move fast for those experienced writers who simply don’t have time to cruise and look new sources of improving the marketability of their writing. 
 
Target audience:  Anyone who is new to writing grants though individuals who have previously written grants can also learn some pointers and methods for writing more successful grants.
 
Cost:  $50 per session for Non-TANO Members
           $25 per session for TANO Members
 
 
Save $$ and Sign up for the Full 7-Part Series!
 
   
 
Fundamentals of Grant Writing

How many times have you thought I am a good writer, I should be able to write grants, right? Fundamentals of grant writing involves several skills- research, planning, and the basic elements of a grant. This session will give you fundamental, beginning, basic skills in all three areas.

Wednesday, January 18th
2:00pm-3:30pm
 
 
Stepping Up Your Grant Writing

This webinar is geared for beginning to intermediate grant writing professional. In this webinar, we move rapidly from refining and framing skills for writing, to sharpening the focus on writing and editing with internet resources on editing skills. We even confront the dreaded "writer's block" with laughter and time management techniques.
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Click HERE to Register & For More Info
Wednesday, January 25th
2:00pm-3:30pm
 
   
 
We Have to Get Funded - What Did I Do Wrong?

Okay, so you've attended the free sessions you heard advertised, you've registered for grants.gov, and you get enough free e-newsletters to choke your inbox- but still got the declined letter? How do you write a grant that will get funded? This webinar is designed to help you filter through and drive to the core of what you need to make your case and "make money".

 

Click HERE to Register & For More Info

Wednesday, February 1st
2:00pm-3:30pm

 
   
 
What Happens When a Grant is Reviewed?

This webinar will give you insight into the Grant Reviewer's world from an actual grant reviewer who has reviewed for federal grants for over 9 years, private foundations, corporate sponsored foundations, and private individuals, each a different process. The session will review key components of recent federal grants and how they impacted scoring.

Click HERE to Register & For More Info
Wednesday, February 8th
2:00pm-3:30pm
 
   
 
Before You Write- How Do Organizations Become Grant Ready?

This webinar offers the beginning to advanced grant professional essential tools and techniques to prepare your organization in getting started, building capacity and becoming grant-ready.

 

Click HERE to Register & For More Info

Wednesday, February 15th
2:00pm-3:30pm

 
   
 
Being a Grant Writing Consultant- Can I Do This as a Business?

Pick one(church, club, sorority, friends) have always had me write the grants for years, and they have gotten funded. But can I do this as a business now? The webinar will provide you with an understanding of what it takes to start your own grant writing consulting business.
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Click HERE to Register & For More Info
Wednesday, February 22nd
2:00pm-3:30pm
 
   
 
After the Award Letter Arrives- Grant Management

You've researched the perfect grant, you've written the perfect application, and the award letter has arrived. Whoa! You did it! Now what? In 90 minutes, we'll introduce you to resources, suggestions and professional organizations that will help guide you along in the grants' world of increasing requirements for accountability and fiscal oversight.

 

Wednesday, February 29th
2:00pm-3:30pm
 

Register before December 31st and SAVE $50!

You must register for each session separately but you can pay for all sessions at one time!

 

Cost per session:
  • $25 per session fo TANO Members
  • $50 per session for Non-TANO Members
Sign up for the Series and Save!

Cost for 7-part Series:
$150 for TANO Members (one session FREE!)
$300 for Non-TANO Members (one session FREE!)

This is part of a seven-part webinar series on grant making. You must register for each session separately but you can Save $50 by registering before December 31st for all seven webinars. (Multiple participants from your organization may attend).

 
To find out if your organization is a TANO member and for more details, contact Mary Beth Harrington at mbharrington@tano.org or 512-381-1493.
 
   
 
Take These Classes in Your Pajamas!

 

New to taking courses via webinar? It's easy! Watch the presentation on your computer. Listen to the presentation over your phone!

 

Step 1 - Register for the session.
Once you make your payment you will receive an email with a link to log in and phone number.

 

Step 2 - Watch for 24-hour reminder.

Use this reminder email to verify the link you've been sent is the correct session, and also to ensure your computer's compatibility with the presentation software.

 

Step 3 - Log on 10-30 minutes early.

Follow the link (same as from the reminder email) to the ReadyTalk conference room and prepare for the webinar to begin.

 

 

Log on prior to the start of the webinar to ensure no technical difficulties prevent you from attending - someone will be available to assist you with any problems, may they arise.