
Welcome to the course, I truly hope this course gives you the skills and confidence to write really effective funding applications.
Understand the course structure and understand a little more about me and why I am a great guide to help you improve your grant writing win rate.
See examples of past customers and what impact they received from coming on my course
Showing you an example of searching online to find information and qualify potential funders
Showing you an example of searching online to find information and qualify potential funders
Understanding the eligibility themes of funders.
Understanding how to dive deeper into a funder to assess how relevant it is to your organisation's mission and priorities.
Here, I go into 3 x funder's website and show you the types of items on a funder's website that are interesting to note
Understanding how to prioritise your funders.
Understanding how to visually represent your prioritised funders into a grant calendar
Understanding the principles of solutioning.
Understanding the 6 key architectural pieces of a credible solution.
Reading an example problem statement.
Understanding what makes a good problem statement.
Helping you to brainstorm ideas for a problem statement
3 tips to help you craft more powerful problem statements
Understanding the difference between outputs (milestones) and outcomes
Overview of a Project Plan
Understand using an example how to do a simple project plan.
Understand using an example how to do a simple budget and re-cut that budget to fit a funder's maximum funding
Understand a co-designed approach and that this is where the industry is moving towards.
Overview of how to write a funding application
Understanding why it's essential to be responsive to a funder's priorities and talk their language.
Understanding why a template is important to start with a compliant structure before you start writing
Here I show you how to create a template for writing your funding application that ensures its compliant against the funder's instructions
Here I will share how to do a 1st edit on your funding application
Here, you will learn what are the key editing items to look out for when editing your funding application so it becomes a more succinct and compelling funding application.
Take a break from writing and do some something creative so your ideas can develop sub-consciously and maybe even create a visual or two that visually represents your solution.
Here, you will learn what are the key editing items to look out for when editing your funding application so it becomes a more succinct and compelling funding application.
Here I list out the questions you should ask a critical friend to answer about your funding application so they can do a critical review and give you feedback on how to improve your funding application
Address the feedback from your critical friend and press submit. Oh, and try to save everything somewhere you can begin to create a user-friendly bid library
This course will teach you how to qualify the right funders to pursue so you don't waste your time applying to funders you are unlikely to win. It will then talk you through the 5 essential building blocks you need to create for a robust solution. It will then take you through the steps you need to take to write a compelling grant application.