Webinar Description
This webinar series will help to answer a beginner's questions about writing grants and seeking funds from local foundation sources. It will be a multi-week virtual workshop, meeting every other week, with a "hands on" component. Attendees will be required to do homework in between sessions and we will set up a paired approach to "peer review" of your homework and final products. All of your individual homework assignments will build towards your final product which will be a grant proposal, ready for submission. We will be learning together and forming a TUS grant writing support team. A winning grant for one of us will be a win for all of us!!
General Format and Expectations
- Every other week we will all meet via an on-line platform.
- You will be paired up in order to do peer-reviews of your homework.
- Every other week, when we meet on-line, there will be time for sharing and Q & A.
- You will be expected to do homework in between the calls. Some of the homework will include writing.
- You will be expected to attend all of the sessions.
Session 1: Overview of fundraising (9/21)
HOMEWORK: Develop your idea/project and write a 250-word abstract. In pairs, read each other’s abstracts and provide comments, ask clarifying questions.
Session 2: Telling your story and reading your abstract (10/5)
HOMEWORK: Change partners and read each other’s abstracts. Provide feedback. Hone your abstract.
Session 3: Program development elements (10/19)
HOMEWORK: Develop: Goal(s), Objectives, Program Description, Capacity, Timeline, Personnel, Evaluation
Session 4: Developing your budget / partners / indirects (11/2)
HOMEWORK: Develop a budget based on your proposal elements. Budget worksheet supplied.
Session 5: Where's the money? Strategies for identifying funders (11/16)
HOMEWORK: Identify at least two local or regional foundations whose programmatic areas align with your topic. Read through their website carefully. Find out how they would like to be approached: a call, a letter of intent, a full proposal?
Session 6: Submission / Discussion (11/30)
We’ll create a listserve for continued questions, comments, success stories, consultation, as well as another conference call if desired.
Presenter
Dr. Barbara Sattler is a Professor in Public Health at the University of San Francisco and a nursing leader in the area of environmental health, including issues related to climate change. She has been an advisor to the EPA’s Office of Child Health Protection and the National Library of Medicine for informational needs of health professionals on environmental health. She helped to create the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, an international organization that is helping to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and policy/advocacy. Barbara has been the principle on grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science, the USDA, HUD, and the US EPA. She has been the recipient of dozens of local, regional and national foundation grants. In her personal life, she and her husband own an organic farm/vineyard/winery where they host the weekly community Farmers’ Market.