Strategic grant writing aligns the needs of a nonprofit with funding sources, whether those sources are foundations, government agencies, corporations or individuals. This two-course bundle offers the introductory through intermediate skills needed for those involved in gaining funding for any nonprofit organization’s mission.

• Introduction to Grant Writing provides a guide to the basics of grant writing – exploring the relationship between grant writing and an organization’s strategy for fundraising. It also outlines the six stages of grant writing and highlights best practices.
• The second course, Advanced Grant Writing, helps you advance newly acquired grant writing skills to the next level – challenging you to ask iterative questions in order to sharpen and refine each grant proposal, elevating it to the top of the stack. By looking closely at how a logic model can shore up a proposal at each key stage, this course demonstrates how to move planning, evaluation and budgeting from good to great.