Webinar Description:

This session will address how to utilize Agile ways of working in your organization to significantly improve the grant seeking process. Agile ways of working (regardless of the tool or framework you rely on) is a proven way for grant writing teams to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of application design and to manage the iterations of applications, as well as the numerous stakeholders involved in successful grant applications.
 

Presenter:

Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC), Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association, and a Registered Scrum Trainer. Diane began her career as a Program Officer for a state-wide grantmaking organization and she continues to serve as a reviewer for a variety of grantmaking organizations. Since 2006, when she formed DH Leonard Consulting, Diane and her team have secured more than $121 million dollars in competitive grant awards and Diane has personally trained more than 93,507 nonprofit professionals.  When not working with her team, Diane can be found in the 1000 Islands, out for a run, or drinking a strong cup of coffee.
 

Skill Level:

Mid-Career

Advanced Career

Learning Track:

Proposal Development/Communication Strategies

GPC Competencies:

Organizational development as it pertains to grant seeking

Strategies for effective program and project design and development

How to craft, construct, and submit an effective grant application

Nationally recognized standards of ethical practice by grant developers

Practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers

Orginally Recorded: 

May 2024