GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP
DATES & TIMES:
January 3 (Thursday), 5-9 pm
January 5 (Saturday), 9-3 pm
January 10 (Thursday), 5-9 pm
January 12 (Saturday), 9-3 pm
LOCATION: Main campus, Grise Hall 342
Printable Registration Form (pdf format)
The workshop is designed for local government elected officials and program staff, community-based organizations, non-profit organizations, volunteers and community leaders, government consultants, university faculty and staff, and MPA graduate students.
• Center for Local Government
• Department of Political Science, MPA Program
• The ALIVE Center
• Continuing Education, Division of Extended Learning and Outreach, WKU
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Victoria Gordon is the Director of the Center for Local Government, in the Political Science Department of
Western Kentucky University. Dr. Gordon has fifteen years experience in local government that includes successful
grant writing and administration. Dr. Gordon also served as a full-time grant writer/reviewer for Lincoln University in Missouri.
This workshop will provide an intensive introduction into the process of grant writing and administration. Throughout the course a variety of topics will be covered, which will include:
- GRANT RESEARCH - What is really going on in the current funding environment? How do we find funding sources? What are the differences between public and private sources of funding? Once we find a funding source, how do we get our foot in the door?
- BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS - What are the real secrets to networking? How can we make our proposal more appealing through the use of partnerships?
- PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WRITING - How do we tell our story in a way that will appeal to the reviewers? How do we get through writer’s block? Who cares about typos?
- PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT - Dissecting the RFP. What do they really want? Is my proposal organized logically and does it meet the requirements set forth by the funding agency?
- BUDGET DEVELOPMENT - What do all of these terms mean - overhead, indirect costs, direct costs, hard match, soft match, in-kind contributions?
- EVALUATION - Can we really do what we say we are going to do? Is our organization capable of carrying out what it proposes?
- ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS in Grant Writing and Administration
- GRANT ADMINISTRATION - We got the funding! Now what do we do?
Guest Speakers include practitioners in a variety of fields.
Please direct all other questions to Dr. Victoria Gordon,
Director, Center for Local Government, WKU, 270-745-6192