Grant Writing Made Easy is a self-paced online course designed
to teach you how to write successful grant proposals. And FAST.
What You'll Get
- 6 modules that break down the grant writing process into easy steps
- 11 core instructional videos that take you through examples and explain the principles of grant writing in plain language
- 200+ pages of workbooks, templates, and cheatsheets complete with writing exercises and tons of information
- Peer review exercises for each grant section to get effective revision suggestions on your grant
- A bonus module on advanced grants: state, federal, international, and academic
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Exactly What You'll Learn in Each Module
Module 1: Grant Search & Fit
In this module, you will learn:
- What type of organization/business/individual you are and which grants you qualify for
- Grantmakers' expectations for grantees
- Who offers grants and how to find them
- How to decide which grants are the best fit (which you are most likely to win)
- How to track and organize grant requirements, tasks, and due dates
- Which resources and materials you need to gather before you start
- How to read and interpret grant opportunity announcements, including for federal grants
- How to establish and maintain relationships with grantmakers
- How to set yourself, organization, or business up for a successful and streamlined grant writing process
- How to increase your writing productivity—dramatically
You will finish this module with a grant opportunity list and plan for your upcoming grant proposals.
Module 2: History & Mission
In this module, you will learn:
- How to speak to your grantmaker's priorities
- How to tell a compelling story, whether you are applying as an organization or as an individual
- How to decide what information is relevant and important to include
- How to refine your mission if you’re not sure it’s strong enough
- How to interview others to include an outside or second perspective on your organization’s significance
- How to revise this section for style
- How to answer questions about your board
- Other highly-spefic questions that might be included in this section that you weren’t expecting
- How to talk about yourself in an individual history section
- How to review your peer review partner’s history and mission section
You will finish this module with a completed history and mission section.
Module 3: Statement of Need
In this module, you'll learn:
- How to figure out exactly who you’re serving and exactly why they need it
- How to do research, both secondary and primary
- How to evaluate potential sources and decide what is most relevant to your argument
- How to incorporate research that clearly demonstrates need
- How to make a convincing argument, using rhetorical principles
- How to avoid logical fallacies
- How to tell a compelling story with evidence
- How to review your peer review partner’s statement of need section
You will finish this module with a completed statement of need section.
Module 4: Program Design
In this module, you will learn everything you need to know to get started with grants:
- How to plan strong goals and objectives
- How to design credible strategies
- How to determine what resources you need
- How to create a descriptive and memorable program or project name
- How to differentiate yourself from your competition
- How to find collaborators and talk about them in your proposal
- How to design program promotion strategies
- How to pilot and launch your program
- How to plan and talk about program sustainability
- How to evaluate your program using metrics
- How to explain how you will promote your grantmaker once you get the grant
- How to review your peer review partner’s program design section
You will finish this module with a complete program design.
Module 5: Logic Model & Budget
In this module, you will learn everything you need to know to get started with grants:
- The components of the mysterious logic model and how to fill one out correctly
- How to adhere the budget requirements and format
- The components of a budget and what they mean
- How to estimate expenses and revenue for a program or project
- What to include in the organizational budget
- What to include in budget justifications
- How to review your peer review partner’s logic model and budget
You will finish this module with a completed budget and logic model.
Module 6: All the Little Details
In this module, you will learn everything you need to know to get started with grants:
- What type of organization/business/individual you are and which grants you qualify for
- How to write an executive summary or abstract
- How to create a timeline
- How to write LOI’s
- How to create an appendix in Adobe Acrobat
- How to write thank you letters
- How to conduct site visits with grantmakers
- How to do grant reporting
- How to review your peer review partner’s entire grant proposal
ENROLL NOW AND YOU'LL ALSO GET THESE EXCLUSIVE BONUSES . . . FOR FREE
Bonus #1 – New Course Content Every Quarter
Get new lessons, workbooks, videos, or grant examples every 3 months! We are always adding new content that our students ask for. As long as you keep your monthly membership, you will get access to the course and all new content.
$400 per year
Free with Grant Writing Made Easy
Bonus #2 – 11 Live Online Writing Workshops Per Year
Join me and your classmates in live, monthly online writing workshops. We will search for grants, strategize and plan, draft your grant, and revise your grant. This time is invaluable, but, again, I normally charge clients $200 an hour for this.
$1,650
Free with Grant Writing Made Easy
Bonus #3: A Coupon Code for a $99 1-Year Subscription to Grant Station's Grants Database (typically $699)
Grant Station is a comprehensive, easily searchable grants database. It allows you to search by grant purpose, geographic location, type of funder, and type of grant. It is the best grant search resource I have found and I use it with my clients to create grant opportunity lists. It includes U.S., Canada, and international grants.
$600
Free with Grant Writing Made Easy
Bonus #4: Private, Members Only Facebook Group
Instant access to the closed-doors Grant Writing Made Easy Facebook group where I do regular Facebook Live Q&A's. You’ll gain unlimited insight by arranging peer review exchanges of your grant drafts with a friendly and approachable group of like-minded grant writers.
$500
Free with Grant Writing Made Easy
Bonus #5: 30 Days of Writing Exercises Emailed to You
This course focuses not just on understanding grants but on becoming an excellent writer. In addition to the writing lessons in the course workbooks, with this bonus, you can get 30 days of exclusive writing exercises emailed to you each day. These will help you loosen up if you find writing difficult or intimidating, become more creative, and learn the skills that will make your writing stand out above the rest.
$97
Free with Grant Writing Made Easy
WHO AM I? MEET YOUR GRANT WRITING PRO
Founder and Principal of Write Good: Grant Writing and Communications for the Greater Good, Krista has won millions in grants as a consultant for a wide variety of nonprofits, government institutions, small businesses, and academic researchers.
Krista's purpose is to help visionaries and changemakers like you do more good in the world. Krista earned her Ph.D. in English-Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies from The Ohio State University where she won a University Fellowship and the Corbett Fellowship.
She was also recognized by the university as an outstanding research mentor for her work with the Appalachian Project, Ohio; awarded the university's Alice Paul Award for her advocacy work on the West Virginia Water Crisis; and given a $50,000 research grant by the National Science Foundation.
She taught first-year composition, technical writing, and digital media composition for 6 years at a total of 3 universities. Her Write Good podcast has been featured on Idealist Careers.
KRISTA KURLINKUS, PH.D.
OUR PROOF—STRAIGHT FROM OUR STUDENTS
I actually have a certificate in Fundraising from NYU, but this course is already providing more value than what I got from them... for $3000 a class!
-Ginger Aña Dayla, Founding Artistic Director, New City Stage Company
This is me finishing up an important meeting with the Vice President of grants with Wells Fargo here in Charlotte. I was able to get a meeting with him off of the email letter that this grant program taught me. I was so grateful to get this meeting because now I’m starting to build a relationship with the people that approve the grants. Great news is that he will be approving a sponsorship for my upcoming event!
I’m so excited. Well worth the money. I encourage everyone to follow the program, especially when sending the letter before applying, this will give you favor when you submit your grant!
-Trina Boyd, Founder, Women in Power, Inc.
Won $12,000 in startup grants for her nonprofit
Grant Writing Made Easy has helped me so much! I won multiple grants for our new nonprofit after taking this course. Those grants allowed us to start running our first program! The course is about the same as a college course. There is homework, reading, assignments, and really interactive live classes.
-Nicole Odom, Development Director, W.E.B. DuBois Child Enrichment Center
If you have never written a grant before, this course provides a structured, friendly, and comprehensive introduction to the process, from start to finish. Krista is a caring instructor and trustworthy expert. If you take advantage of all the resources this class has to offer, you will surely improve in your grant writing skills!
-Athena Lao, BEST Foundation
This course provides you with the tools and guidance to research grants and to write successful proposals. If you are new to grant writing, if you need to take your grant writing to the next level, or if you just want to learn about other tools and tactics from other grant writers, you need to give this course a try! You will glean so much information from Krista and the materials she provides, and from the other students in the course!
-Alanna Layton, United Cerebral Palsy of South Carolina
Won $660,000 in academic research grants
While I attend all of my academic institution’s workshops on grant writing, as well as the online trainings from federal organizations, it is hard to synthesize all of these sources’ information to one’s own personal proposal. I highly recommend Write Good’s course.
Besides getting access to funding sources, it forces you to practice the art of grant writing. I learn best with specific examples, and this is what Grant Writing Made Easy does. I am very grateful for what I’ve learned, and for the personalized feedback and interaction. As an academic, this source has by far been the best means by which I’ve learned to become a better grant writer.
-Dr. Melissa Baralt, Associate Professor, Florida International University
YOU'RE SAFE WITH US!
ANYTIME CANCELLATION
If you’re on the fence . . .
Or if other trainings have left you stranded (and skeptical) . . .
Then I want to give you EVERY opportunity to put Grant Writing Made Easy into action and cash in on your first hugely profitable grant application.
If you get into my course and find that it’s not helping you find new grant opportunities, write better grant proposals, or improve your current grant writing strategies, you can cancel your monthly membership at any time.
Grant Writing Made Easy is for nonprofit and government professionals, business owners, and researchers who are committed to implementing new revenue-generating strategies into their work.
So, if you do the work and decide the course is not for you, cancel your monthly membership and never get charged again.
There’s an incredible transformation waiting for you on the other side of this training, and since my main goal is your success.
To be clear, the first payment and any following completed payments are non-refundable, but you may cancel subsequent month's payments at any time by sending a cancellation request to support@writegoodco.com.
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Customer Testimonials: As with any business-related program, your results using Grant Writing Made Easy may vary from these customer testimonials. Your results will be based on a variety of variables, including but not limited to your level of effort; strength of your organization's program, research, or artistic production; personal qualities; knowledge; skills; and other factors. Since these factors differ for each individual and organization, we cannot guarantee your success, results, or grant award, nor are we responsible for your success or failure. Grant Writing Made Easy is not a "get rich quick scheme." It takes significant time, effort, and dedication as well as a strong nonprofit or other business organization, if you are writing for an organization. We believe we provide you with a strong set of tools to achieve your desired results, and our students agree.