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Grants Myths and Urban Legends w/ Hisham Ali Bob

Demystify the grant writing process and gain the tools to succeed in this insightful webinar by Hisham Ali Bob, a tri-lingual community leader with ten years of experience in preventing violence and fundraising for various causes. Learn best practices backed by research, practical strategies for crafting compelling grant proposals, and how to overcome common barriers to successful grant funding.

Financial Planning 101: How To Master Your Budgeting and Forecasting in 2023 w/ Don Needs

Want to learn how to identify the different types of budgeting methodologies and which ones are the most effective? Don Needs, a financial analyst from Jitasa has shared the difference between budgeting and forecasting and why your organization needs both​, explained how to utilize technology to speed up the budgeting and forecasting cycle, where Instrumentl fits into the picture and more!

How to Show Impact through Digital Grant Reports w/ Jeff Rum

Want to learn how to show impact through digital grant reports? In this session with Jeff Rum, Co-Founder of Yearly and Founder & CEO of ignite, we dived into the world of grant reporting and explored how digital tools can help you effectively communicate the impact of your grants.

How to Use an Agile Framework to Write (and Win) More Grants w/ Diane Leonard

Tired of the time-consuming and tedious grant seeking process? Look no further! Learn how to effectively implement the Scrum framework in your organization and revolutionize the way you approach grant management.

Stop Chasing the Money: Creating Winning Grant Strategies w/ Amanda Day & Kimberly Hays de Muga

Unlock the full potential of your grant management process by learning the importance of strategic grant calendars, how to strategically examine RFP's, and how to document your decision-making process - all with help of Instrumentl.

How to Unlock Recurring Grants Through Your Volunteer Program w/ Geng Wang

In this workshop, you can learn what are Volunteer Matching Grants, why they are valuable and impactful, how to use your current volunteer program to find Volunteer Grants, growing your nonprofit's volunteer grant program, and more.

Take Advantage Of $156,000 In Free Digital Advertising With The Google + Microsoft Ad Grants For Nonprofits w/ Emily Fisher and Regan Dishon

In this workshop, Emily Fisher, Google Ad Grants Area of Practice Manager and Regan Dishon, Director of Revenue at Community Boost will de-mystify the grant opportunities and dive into the practical ways you can leverage this to drive more traffic (+ supporters) to your website.

5 Tips for Building an Antiracist Culture in Your Fundraising & Development Team w/ Kia Croom

Are you struggling to create an inclusive and equitable work culture? Maybe you need help operationalizing equity and inclusion in your fundraising team! In this 1-hour workshop, we discuss how how Instrumentl can help you better research and identify DEI focused funders.

Project Budgets: What To Do (and What NOT To Do) w/ Margit Brazda Poirier

In this 60-minute grant writing deep-dive session, Margit Brazda-Poirier shares what to do and what not to do when it comes to project budgets. She explores the best way to present an A+ project budget and more.

5 Steps To Perfect Post-Award Grants Management with Rachel Werner

In this 1-hour workshop with Rachel Werner, we explore the necessity of post-award compliance, especially for government funding, thinking about go-no go for grant opportunities to ensure you can manage the funding and more.

Fundraising in a Recession: A Panel Discussion

Not sure what to do in a recession? In this 1-hour workshop, we explore what’s the status of the economy today, how recessions can impact fundraising​, how you can prepare and adjust your fundraising strategies, and more.

Money Mindset and How It Affects Fundraising w/ Rhea Wong

In this one hour workshop, Rhea Wong explores how to reframe our relationship with money to achieve more success in fundraising and asking. We'll dig into how to become aware of your relationship with money, where our money stories come from and how to create different narratives.

Tips from a Former Grantmaker: Live Proposal Review w/ Shavonn Richardson

In this one hour workshop, Shavonn Richardson, founder and CEO of Thank and Ink Grants, digs into how to set your proposal up for success before you even start writing, how to make your proposals more competitive, and common mistakes to avoid.

Writing Powerful Performance Indicators w/ Lori Foltz Fabian

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you'll learn how to set your nonprofit up for success with funders by designing accurate and achievable performance indicators.

Grant Funder Stewardship is All About Relationships... But with an Eye on DEI w/ Scot Scala

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn how to use a hyper-focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) to improve the strength and duration of grant-funder relationships.

Is Your Client Truly Ready? How to Assess Client Readiness w/ Chermain Jennings

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn how to assess the readiness of clients and nonprofit organizations for grant funding - including what questions to ask and which documents to review.

Do More Faster: Templates and key metrics to get Grant Ready Today w/ Matt Hugg

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn what how to get grant ready and what background information and more to have right at your fingertips, so you get to what’s really important – describing the great program that needs funding, today!

How To Effectively Manage Your Grants Department With A Lean Team w/ Sheleia Phillips

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to leverage automation and cloud systems, facilitate cross-departmental collaboration, and create basic workflows and plug-and-play grant templates.

How to Write a Compelling LOI w/ Arnisha Johnson

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to know what an LOI is and why it is important to the grant writing process, how to obtain the key elements necessary for an LOI, and how to understand the construction of an LOI.

Data Isn't Just for Science! 5+ Secrets to Writing Evidence-Based Grants w/ Amanda Faye Lipsey

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to find evidence-based data and evidence-based means, how to read and understand the data, and how to summarize evidence-based data and use it to support/justify your grant proposal.

Make New Friends But Keep the Old: A Case for Consistent Prospecting w/ Amy Mauser

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to build a funnel and know who goes in, how to steward funders, and how to add new prospect.

What Companies Want: Secrets to Securing In-Kind Donations for Fundraising Events w/ Renee Zau

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to know what sways company decision-makers when reviewing donation requests.

How to Write a Proposal Narrative w/ Lynn Arsenault

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to know how to write a "boilerplate grant template" to help streamline your grant writing process.

How to Craft Effective Letters of Inquiry w/ Margit Brazda Poirier

In this 60-minute grant writing deep-dive session, Margit Brazda-Poirier shares her 1-page formula for writing LOIs that get attention from funders every time and we dive deep into two registrants' draft LOIs for feedback.

5 Grant Research Mistakes (and What to Do Instead) with Melissa Reams

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to build a funnel and know who goes in, how to steward funders, and how to add new prospects.

How to Achieve 100% Board Giving w/ Jenni Hargrove

In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to know what is 100% board giving and why do you need to secure grants, and what role does equity play in a 100% board giving policy.

Setting Grant Targets Through Your Prospect Research w/ Rachel Werner

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll be able to examine the criteria for weighing low, medium, and high-level priority prospects and how this can feed into dashboard data and your fundraising plan.

Find the Right Grants and Learn How to Standout with Funders w/ Meredith Noble

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn how to utilize several different decision-making tools to help determine which prospects to pursue and create a replicable system that will help you win the right funders in the future.

How to Use Logic Models to Show Outcomes from Correlations w/ Steve Boland

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Steve Boland will share with you how to use logic models to show outcomes from correlations.

How to Optimize Your Grant Application and Win More Funding: Cobb Community Foundation (Ep. 1)

​Want to win more grants for your nonprofit? Struggling to figure out how to position your nonprofit in the best light possible for grantmakers? ​If you're trying to take a deep dive and learn what grantmakers are looking for in their applicants, this podcast interview episode is for you.

5 Ways to Use Funder 990 Data To Get Your Dream Grant w/ Margit Brazda Poirier

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Margit Brazda Poirier will share with you 5 ways to use funder 990 data to get your dream grant.

Go from Rejected to Accepted: 9 Reasons Your Grants Get Rejected (and How to Fix Them) w/ Teresa Huff

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you 9 reasons your grants are getting rejected, and how to fix them.

You Found a Grant! Now, What's Next? with Shavonn Richardson

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Shavonn Richardson, founder of Think and Ink Grant Consulting, will share with you how to take action today and develop a proven reusable strategy for every grant your organization finds.

3 Ways to STAND OUT and Win the Grant! with Margit Brazda Poirier

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Margit Brazda Poirier, Owner of Grants4Good, will share with you the three ways to stand out and win the grant. By the end of this workshop, you'll know the #1 strategy every nonprofit must use to get funding, and how your nonprofit can stand out from the competition.

Step Up Your Systems for Success: How to Simplify, Streamline and Support Your Team w/ Teresa Huff

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Teresa Huff will share with you how to simplify, streamline, and support your team.

Getting Started with Government Grants w/ Mockingbird Incubator/Caroline Snyder

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Caroline Snyder from Mockingbird Incubator will share with you the unique requirements and characteristics of government grants and how to determine if you are eligible.

Grant Ethics BINGO w/ Amanda Day, GPC & Kimberly Hays de Muga, GPC

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Amanda Day, GPC & Kimberly Hays de Muga, GPC will cover a whole host of ethical scenarios and how to handle them.

4 Tips for Building Relationships With Charitable Corporations w/ Jenni Hargrove

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Jenni Hargrove, a charitable marketing coach and founder of Nonprofit Jenni, will share with you the 4 tips for building relationships with charitable corporations.

Behind the Grantmaker's Curtain: What Funders Want with Matt Hugg

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Matt Hugg shares the 10 points he outlined that he had consistently heard from discussions and interviews with funders over the last 30+ years, including: their frustrations, the importance of communications and their humanity (among others).

How to Understand & Take Advantage of the Grant Opportunities in the American Rescue Plan Act with Julie Assel

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Julie Assel shares some straight talk about understanding and taking advantage of the grant opportunities in the American Rescue Plan Act!

5 Time-Saving Tips to Boost Your Grants Productivity with Tiffany Nobles

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Tiffany Nobles, owner of T. Nobles Grant Consulting​, LLC, will share with you the 5 time-saving tips she uses in her grants consultancy to improve productivity. Tips will include ways to use Instrumentl to save time on prospecting and sharing info with clients.

Taking the Fear Out of Funder Communications with Rachel Werner

In this 1-hour webinar (with 15 minutes Q&A), Rachel Werner will dig into how to overcome the fear of reaching out to funders and get yourself introduced to new funding prospects.

Grant Writer Ask Me Anything Session! w/ Breanna Polacik, Lori Fabian & Melissa Reams

In this 1-hour AMA, Instrumentl teams up with three of its partners to give you actionable advice when it comes to your research process, grant writing process, budgets, and grant management and reporting.

7 Tips to Write Grants Like a Pro with Holly Rustick

If you're coming across Writer's Block when it comes to starting to write grants for your nonprofit, then this free grant training is for you. In this one-hour grant workshop, we dig into specific tactics that Holly Rustick has used to write effective grants that win funding. You'll walk away with an example for each tip that you can start applying for your own grant applications.

Partnership Pays! 5 Ways Partnering Builds More Grants Success, Faster with Maryn Boess

Want to learn how to use partnerships to win more grants? Then this free grant training is for you! In this one-hour grant workshop, we dig in with Maryn Boess to discuss how partnerships can win you more grants and turbocharge your grants success.

Getting Stellar Support Letters for Your Grants with Rachel Waterman

In this one-hour grant workshop, you'll learn what it takes to get stellar support letters to help you with your grant applications. Rachel Waterman from Global Development Solutions provides clear examples of great support letters so you can improve your own.

How to Go From Zero to Hero with Your Grant Strategy

Wondering how to take your organization from flat-footed to sprinting towards finding and applying for new funding opportunities? Then this free grant workshop collaboration between Instrumentl and Nonprofit Hub is for you. In this one-hour grant workshop, we dig in to discuss how to go from zero to hero with your grant strategy.

Funder Feedback: Ask the Right Way – to Get the Right Results with Maryn Boess

If you have no idea how to get meaningful feedback on your grant proposals from grantmakers or what to even do when you get feedback, then this 1.5-hour grant workshop is for you. In this free grant training, you'll learn how to ask, how to get, and how to make sense of funder feedback.

How to Use a Decision Matrix in Your Grant Strategy with Stacy Fitzsimmons

If you're struggling figuring out whether or not you should apply for that grant opportunity, this free grant training is for you. In this one-hour grant workshop, we dig in with Stacy Fitzsimmons, to discuss how to make the most of a decision matrix to decide whether or not to pursue a grant.

How to Go From 100+ Grants to The Best Fits for You: The Grant Writing Unicorn Method with Meredith Noble

If you're overwhelmed by the number of grant opportunities there are for your nonprofit to pursue, then you need to watch this free grant training. In this 1-hour grant workshop, Meredith Noble reviews how to filter down from 100+ grant opportunities to the top pursuits for your organization.

How to SOAR to Effective Grant Planning and Prospect Research with Rachel Werner

If you're struggling to find grant funding for your nonprofit, this 1-hour grant workshop is for you. In it, we dig into how to use strategic planning tools (including use of a SOAR model) to help your nonprofit form a cogent strategy for effective grant planning and prospect research.

How to Thrive in a Post-Pandemic Economy with Margit Brazda Poirier

If you're wondering how to win grants effectively now and post-COVID, this 1-hour grant workshop is for you. In it, we dig into the three C's to thriving in a pandemic economy, how to find the best grants, and how to prepare essential documents for grant applications.

Connecting Smart Project Goals, SMART Objectives, and Grant Research Keywords with Dr. Bev Browning

If you're struggling to write compelling objectives for your projects, this 1-hour grant workshop is for you. In it, we dig into the connection between your project's goals, SMART objectives, and grant research keywords.

Grantwriting: Not Just for Mainstream Nonprofits w/ Allison Shirk

​​In this one-hour webinar (including time for Q&A), Allison Shirk will teach you how the process of reviewing grant applications is changing so that more organizations are able to compete and how you can stand out and make your grants more successful.

Grow Your Confidence So That You Can Grow Your Mission w/ Katie Appold

​In this 1 hour workshop with Katie Appold, of Do More Good, you will learn how to leverage confidence in your approach to your work and your grant strategy.

FIRESIDE CHAT: What Is - and Isn’t - the Role of the Grant Writer? w/ Dr. Bev Browning

In this 1 hour Fireside chat, Dr. Beverly Browning answers important questions on what the role of a grant writer is - and isn't - and how to more effectively work with nonprofit teams

How to Find your Unicorn Funders & Standout Using a Power Prospectus w/ Meredith Noble

​In this 1 hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll learn how to utilize several different decision-making tools to help determine which prospects to pursue and create a replicable system that will help you win the right funders in the future.

Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing Good w/ Patrick Kirby

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll get clarity on how to make the job of fundraising as awesome as it can be and learn a simple and easy-to-understand "5 Day Fundraising Framework" to organize your fundraising life.

Government Grants 101: 5 Steps for Getting Government Grant Ready w/ Patrice Davis

5 Steps to Building Out Your Ideal Grant Team with Interns w/ Marie Gress

5 Key Strategies to Improve Your Projects for Grant Success w/ Jami Yazdani