ClassTitle: Organizational Development: Are You Grant-Ready?

Class Format: This is a recording of a 90-minute, interactive teleclass held via conference call on August 26, 2008. Since we recorded the class, you can listen to it in the convenience of your home or office.

To take this class, add it to your cart, provide your credit card information, and go through the checkout process. Immediately on registering you will automatically be taken to a classroom page where you will download the class materials and listen to the class via streaming audio from your web browser. The controls on the player enable you to listen to, or re-listen to, any part of the class. You may log out and come back at a later time or times time within 90 days from the date you registered for the class. In other words, you can decide when to listen to a class, even breaking it over over different days. Even better, you replay portions that you'd like to re-hear.

Class Description: This recorded, on-demand class offers the beginning to advanced grant professional essential tools and techniques to prepare your organization in getting started, building capacity and becoming grant-ready by addressing:

• the "3Rs of grant seeking" as fundraising; 

• a "CHECKLIST FOR SUCCESS" that provides a process to engage prospects/organizations, and offers results-oriented products; 

• a strategic planning approach to involve staff and board; and 

• a process, tips and steps to deal with infrastructure issues such as information gathering, budget development and funding research.

This practical presentation is aligned with the conference skill tracks of: 

• Organizational development; 

• Program and project development; and 

• Communication skills/relationship building.

Presentation Objectives include: 

• Learn the 3 Rs of grant seeking as fundraising 

• Understand a professional, ethical process to engage prospects/organizations to become grant-ready and offer results-oriented products 

• Learn the value of strategic planning that includes the roles of staff and board with focus on building relationships aligned to grant seeking 

• Share stories and successful/best-practice models regarding organizational development 

• Emphasize crucial skills and resources to implement information gathering, budget development and funding research.

Benefits to grant professionals are: 

• All workshop objectives are beneficial to grant professionals of all levels, especially learning capacity building skills whether they are staff or consultants 

• Learn from an experienced grant consultant so that participants can identify skills, utilize resources, renew, network and energize!  

Do You Have a Group?

Class registration is for you only* with the following exception: If you wish to convene a group to physically gather around a single PC to listen to the class recording at a single session, you may do so at no additional charge. With the money you'll save, you can spring for pizza for everybody!

*Please note that it is impermissible to share your individual log-in username and password with others without express permission from CharityChannel.

About the Instructor:

Linda Gatten Butler, MSW, ACSW, LISW, has her Masters in Social Work from the Ohio State University with emphasis on planning and administration, is an member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers, Founder and Past President of the Miami Valley Ohio Chapter of AAGP, national AAGP board member, and a Licensed Independent Social Worker. She is a senior fundraising consultant and President of Butler Consulting for 14 years, specializing in grants seeking and managing services, with more than 35 years of clinical, administrative and fundraising experience in both the private and public sectors of health, mental health, education, environment, arts, faith-based, housing and human services for over 100 non-profit and public organizations in the Miami Valley of Ohio.

As soon as you register, you will also be sent emails providing you with your username and password, in case you need to log in again, good for 90 days. You'll also receive an electronic receipt, in case you need it for reimbursement or for tax purposes.