Riding the Wave of Consulting offers the offers the grant professional tools, tips and techniques to get started and achieve success. This recorded approximately 90-minute webinar addresses: Getting started; the business plan road to success; business description; marketing; finances; management; and challenges and realities. This practical webinar is targeted for the beginner to advanced and is aligned with the skill tracks of:

• Proposal development – pre-planning;
• Communication skills; Resource knowledge/grant research;
• Professional ethics;
• Professional development;
• Grant management and reporting; and
• Other.

Objectives include:

• Review tools, tips and techniques to get started and help you achieve success and smooth sailing;
• Understand a business plan to ride those waves;
• Discuss a business description, focus and services that help you catch your wave of expertise;
• Learn marketing strategies to promote your consulting;
• Recognize management, administrative, ethical and financial issues to address; and
• Learn freedoms, realities and challenges that consulting can provide.

Benefits to grant professionals are:

• All webinar objectives are beneficial to grant professionals of all levels, especially learning business skills whether they are staff or consultants; and
• Learn from an experienced grant consultant so that participants can discover skills, utilize resources, network and RIDE THE WAVES!

How to Register: Add the class (and any others that you wish to take) to your shopping cart, then proceed through the checkout process.

Class Format: This is a recording of the original live, 90-minute interactive webinar. Immediately on registering, you'll be transported to the classroom page, where you may play the recording and view the slides. You may log in to play the class as many times as you wish for one year from the date you register.

About the Instructor

Linda Gatten Butler, MSW, ACSW, LISW-S, earned her Masters in Social Work, with emphasis on planning and administration, from the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW), Founder and Past President of the Miami Valley Ohio Chapter of GPA, national GPA board member, and a Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor. She is a senior fundraising consultant and President of Butler Consulting for seventeen years, specializing in grants seeking, capacity building, fundraising, training and managing services. She has over thirty-nine 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. She has provided services for over 150 non-profit, for-profit and public organizations nationwide, primarily in the Miami Valley of Ohio.