Grant Writing Workshop
Name:
Grant Writing Workshop
Date:
November 1, 2016
Time:
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT
Event Description:
Grant Writing: Successful Strategies for Securing Funding for your Nonprofit
Nov 01, 2016 09:00am
What is this workshop about?
Writing a grant? There’s much more to a successful application than simply copying language from your last grant application and hoping it will get funded as you hit “submit” online (... but we’ve all done it that anyway!).
Come join us and meet Christy M.P. Gilmour, who will lead us through best practices that every organization should utilize when assembling a grants strategy. Specifically, the workshop will cover topics including:
Come join us and meet Christy M.P. Gilmour, who will lead us through best practices that every organization should utilize when assembling a grants strategy. Specifically, the workshop will cover topics including:
- A “holistic” approach to grant writing,
- What to know “before” you apply,
- Utilizing your Board members in the process
- and much more!
We hope you can join us for this exciting program.
Who should attend this workshop?
Aspiring, new-and even experienced-nonprofit professionals hoping to boost their ability to land grant funding.
Workshop Date: Tuesday, November 1
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 26th
Location: The Gale Center, 2601 Elm Street, Hernando, MS
Cost: $40 per person
Get to know the Workshop Presenter:
Christy M.P. Gilmour, Principal, Christy Gilmour Consulting
Christy M.P. Gilmour has over 20 years of multi-faceted and multi-cultural experience in government relations, education, medical communications, and non-profit campaigns and development. Christy's expertise spans the globe as she has practiced in Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Auckland, New Zealand; and Memphis, TN. Christy's strengths include strategy, leadership, philanthropy, and communications. Her passion is developing sustainability for the not-for-profit community, with a focus on good governance, public affairs, grassroots messaging, fundraising/development management, and as a non-profit consultant.
Christy has served in numerous governmental positions on Capital Hill, as a lobbyist for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, as a travel writer, as the Executive Director of the Kappa Delta Foundation, and as a non-profit consultant.
Christy has served in numerous governmental positions on Capital Hill, as a lobbyist for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, as a travel writer, as the Executive Director of the Kappa Delta Foundation, and as a non-profit consultant.
This training is presented by Volunteer Northwest Mississippi and the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi.
