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The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint [5-23-16]:

YOUR STEP-BY-STEP ROADMAP AND BUILD-IT-YOURSELF TOOLKIT FOR CRAFTING AN A+ PROPOSAL - EVERY TIME!

ENROLL FOR $297.00

Course Description

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Maryn Boess

Chief Magic-Maker

Over her 20+-year career in the nonprofit world, Maryn has been an on-staff program developer and grantwriter; a independent grants consultant (winning more than $42 million for her clients over 10 years); a grants project manager; a grants trainer; a grants reviewer, author, speaker, mentor and coach; and - for the past 10 years - even a grantmaker. This done-it-all background gives her the unique 3-D "insider's" perspective she brings to the practical and inspiring trainings on healthy, successful grantsmanship that she has been blessed to share with thousands of nonprofits of every size, nationally and internationally as well. GrantsMagic U, launched in fall 2015, is the "virtual academy" she created to make her extensive portfolio of grantsmanship trainings available (and affordable!) for anyone, anytime, anywhere. GrantsMagic U is an Approved Continuing Education Provider for both the Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) and Certified Fund-Raising Executive (CFRE) credentials. Since 2006 Maryn has also been “in the grantmaker’s chair,” managing up to $2 million annually in grantmaking for K-12 education in the Southwest. She considers herself a dual citizen in the grants world, and may be the only person currently holding membership in both GPA (Grant Professionals Association, for grantseekers) and GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, for grantmakers). Every hour of GrantsMagic U training qualifies as 1 credit toward CFRE and GPC continuing-education and certification requirements.

Course curriculum

1
Welcome to "The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint"!
- Welcome Message and Getting Started
2
Session 1 (May 23): Starting Right Where You Are ... Right Now!
- A-1. Foundations: What's Ahead
- A-2. Foundations: Let's Get This Party Started!
- A-3. Thinking in 3-D: The Ant, The Eagle ... and Superman
- B-1. The Power of Mission-Centered Grantsmanship: Warm-Up
- B-2. The Grantsmanship Game: Playing to Win
- B-3. Rule 1- Know Yourself: The Heart of Mission-Driven Grantsmanship
- B-4. What Do You Know? - Revisited
- C-1. The One-Page Grant Proposal: Your Blueprint Framework
- C-2. But First, A Few Words About Mind-Mapping ...
- C-3. The Magic Wand Worksheet: A Guided Tour, Part 1
- C-4. The Magic Wand Worksheet: A Guided Tour, Part 2
- C-5. Putting the Magic Wand to Work for You!
- D-1. Session 1 Review and Action Steps
- D-2. Session 1 Review Quiz
- D-3. Session 1: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- D-4. Session 1: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 1: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?
3
Session 2 (May 30): What's the Problem? - Crafting a Statement of Issue, Need, or Opportunity that's Clear, Compelling - and Completely Irresistible
- Session 2 Downloads and Overview
- A-1. Foundations: What's Ahead
- A-2. You Be the Grantmaker! - Lessons from the Winning Edge
- B-1. Building the Issue Statement: Your Fill-In-the-Blanks Formula, Part 1
- B-2. Building the Issue Statement: Your Fill-In-the-Blanks Formula, Part 2
- C-1. It's Never About the "What" - The Motivating Why and the Universal Ideal
- C-2. More About the Motivating Why and the Universal Ideal
- C-3. Wrap-Up and What Do You Know?
- D-1. Session 2 Review and Action Steps
- D-2. Session 2 Review Quiz
- D-3. Session 2: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- D-4. Session 2: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 2: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?
4
Session 3 (June 6): Impact Outcomes: Let's Pay a Visit to Emerald City!
- Session 3 Downloads and Overview
- A-1. Foundations: What's Ahead
- A-2. Big-Picture Context: The Change Map
- B-1. What's Logic Got to Do With It? - Let's Get Tactical!
- C-1. Knock-Their-Socks-off Outcomes Statements - Getting Started
- C-2. The Fill-In-the-Blanks Formula - Two Examples
- C-3. More About Outcomes Statements
- C-4. Wrap-Up and What's Next
- D-1. Session 3 Review and Action Steps
- D-2. Session 3: Review Quiz
- D-3. Session 3: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- D-4. Session 3: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 3: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?
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Session 4 (June 13): Work Plan & Partnership: Crossing the Vision Bridge
- Session 4 Downloads and Overview
- A-1. Leveraging the Power of Partnership: A 3-D Perspective
- A-2. Collaboration: Let's Get Tactical
- A-3. Developing the Collaborative Proposal
- B-1. Lights! Camera! Action! - 3-D Thinking and the Work Plan
- B-2. Breaking It Down: Our Working Example
- C-1. "Scripting" Your Work Plan, Step by Step: Your Fill-In-the-Blanks Formula
- C-2. Time to Build It Up: Two Practice Examples
- C-3. Another Example
- C-4. Pulling It All Together
- D-1. Session 4 Review and Action Steps
- D-2. Session 4: Review Quiz
- D-3. Session 4: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- D-4. Session 4: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 4: Questions? Discussion? Inspiration?
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Session 5 (June 20): The Essential Evaluation Toolkit - Defining and Measuring Success
- Session 5 Downloads and Overview
- A-1. The Essential Evaluation Toolkit: Getting Started
- A-2. Evaluation: So What Is It ... and Why Do It, Anyway?
- A-3. Learning from Failure: My Favorite Evaluation Story
- B-1. Let's Get Tactical Redux: A Closer Look at the Logic Model in Evaluation Planning
- B-2. The Logic Behind the Logic Model: Let's Plan a Vacation!
- B-3. Where Does the Planning Process Begin? ... Looking at Real-Life Examples
- B-4. Back to the Bottom-Up Logic Model: Mapping Out Your Grant Proposal
- C-1. Zeroing In On Success: Where's the Finish Line ... and How Will We Know When We Reach It?
- C-2. Knock-Their-Socks-Off Outcomes Statements - Redux!
- C-3. Key Steps and Benchmarks - Redux!
- C-4. Mapping Your Evaluation Plan, Step by Step
- C-5. The Project Evaluation Summary Chart: Pulling It All Together
- C-6. Session 5 Wrap-Up
- D-1. Session 5 Review Quiz and Action Steps
- D-2. Session 5: Review Quiz
- D-3. Session 5: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- D-4. Session 5: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 5: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?
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Session 6 (June 27): Building an Unbreakable Project Budget ... Guaranteed!
- Session 6 Downloads and Overview
- A-1. Mastering Mission-Centered Budgeting: Your Essential Power Tools
- A-2. The Budget Hierarchy, the Bottom-Up Logic Model ... and Chocolate Chip Cookies
- A-3. Introducing the Master Budget Planning Checklist and Worksheet
- A-4. Two Warm-Up Examples ... and a Solemn Pledge
- B-1. Let's Put On a Play! - Bringing In Detail with a Real-Life Scenario
- B-2. Our Scenario: Salaries ... Two Examples
- B-3. Our Scenario: EREs and Contractual Services
- B-4. Our Scenario: Space Costs and Equipment
- B-5. Our Scenario: Supplies; Travel; Building Costs; Other
- C-1. Everything Else You Need to Know to Build an A+ Proposal Budget
- C-2. More About Direct and "Indirect" Costs
- C-3. The Funder's Budget Form ... and a Few More Considerations
- C-4. How It All Lines Up ... A Final Look
- D-1. Session 6 Review and Action Steps
- D-2. Session 6: Review Quiz
- D-3. Session 6: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- D-4. Session 6: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 6: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?
8
Session 7 (July 5): What's This All About ... Quickly? (And Who Are You, Anyway?)
- Session 7 Downloads and Overview
- A. The Hard-Working Proposal Summary ... And How to Muscle It Up!
- B. The Credibility Statement: Who Are You - What Are You All About ... and How Do We Know We Can Trust You?
- C. What About Sustainability? - Answering the Tricky Question About Future Funding
- D. Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks! - The Proposal Checklist and Review Worksheet
- E-1. Session 7 Review Quiz and Action Steps
- E-2. Session 7: Review Quiz
- E-3. Session 7: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- E-4. Session 7: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 7: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?
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Session 8 (July 11): Turning Your Blueprint Into an A+ Proposal ... On Paper or Online
- Session 8 Downloads and Overview
- A. The Myth of the A+ Proposal: Let's Take a Peek Inside the "Black Box"
- B. The Inner World of the "Grantmaker": A Reality Check
- C. "So ... What's an RFP Again?" - Making Sense of the Grantmaker's Guidelines
- D. Creating a Winning Proposal: Putting It All Together ... On Paper or Online
- E-1. Session 8 Review Quiz and Action Steps
- E-2. Session 8 Review Quiz
- E-3. Session 8: Your Quick-Win Action Step
- E-4. Session 8: Your High-Leverage Action Step
- Session 8: Questions? Discussion? Inspirations?

Reviews

For me, the GrantsMagic U class was a 5-star experience

Linda Anderson

I took the class because my nonprofit had a project and I wanted to write grant requests to support it. But the class also helps groups decide on and prioritize their needs as they develop a project. Since taking the class I have written 9 requests. Three funders asked for a letter; six required an electronic questionnaire. Three are still processing. Three chose not to fund our project. Three awarded us nice cash donations. I can attribute the grants class lessons and very helpful workbook pages to my satisfaction that, after writing and rewriting, the requests I submitted were well done and aimed at the goals of the funder. -- Linda Anderson, Friends of Schafer and Lake Sylvia State Parks (WA)

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Top notch Grants Education!

Kaddee Lawrence

This course was AMAZING. As a self-paced, online course with live support (online, phone, and bi-weekly call-in opportunities) this course gave me a much greater insight into why my proposals have and have not been funded. AND it gave me concrete...

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My Experience

Mark Cox

Being new to the grant world this was a very eye opening experience. I am part of a grant managing team but took this course to understand the process it took to get the grant and how to manage it. This course has given me the tools to seek my own...

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The Ultimate Ultimate

Nancy Mitchell Ash

This course is not for those who think that learning to be a grant writer is easy, for it isn't. The course is thoughtful as well as practical and requires a commitment to DO SOMETHING after every one of the eight lesson. I've taken grant writing courses before that took tactical approach to the grant making process. They concentrated on how to write an application or how to fill out forms. They did not tackle the planning aspects necessary to prepare an organization for conceiving a proposal, for seeking out appropriate grant funders, for submitting a grantable application, or for following up if the proposal us successful in getting funded. To the serious student of mission-centered grant writing (the only consistently successful grant writing ), the course is worth every penny of the tuition price.

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Thank you! Five stars

Allison Vezina

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I give this course 5 stars

Elizabeth Weaver

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Five Stars Plus! - for "The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint"

Barbara Gorzinski

This course made a difference not only for me but for the team-members I invited to take part in the course. Our collective confidence is sky-high and everyone is talking enthusiastically about “the magic wand”. This course is not only a complete decoding of vital elements that go into a successful proposal, it unlocks behind-the-scenes information about funders, their perspectives, and how decisions are made. The templates and workbook are wonderful tools and everything is easy to understand. This course has made my colleagues and me true believers that we are capable agents of positive change in the world through our grant writing. And Maryn Boess is unquestionably a card-carrying member of our grant success team! -- Barbara Gorzinski, Associated Ministries of Tacoma-Pierce County, WA

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Five Stars - Outstanding Grant Writing Class!

Marilyn Smith

I signed up for this class after seeing a link from the Nonprofit Association of Oregon. I have attended other grant workshops in the past, and I can say unequivocally that The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint was the most comprehensive, useful, worthwhile class I've ever taken. The skills and resources that I took away have already helped me write three proposals, and I'm optimistic they will succeed. There is much information here that carries beyond grant writing to nonprofit planning and management. Maryn's style is friendly and engaging; she really knows the grant writing world from both the funder's and the fund seeker's perspective. -- Marilyn Smith, Executive Director, Unite to Fight Paralysis (Oregon)

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5 stars - covers EVERY aspect of a proposal

Suzanne Ryan

I give 5 stars. I've taken a couple of other courses that I found informative and useful. However, this course probes deeper into grant readiness. Maryn covers EVERY aspect of a proposal -- from digging more deeply to create a mission statement to producing a proposal that clearly details an organization's purpose and necessity. I came away with many tools and insights that have enabled me to provide more value to my clients. Included in the course are Q&A group conference calls that answer any questions we might have. Even though I've completed the course, Maryn has made sure that I and other "graduates" are still connected to the program. We are encouraged to contact her any time with questions. -- Suzanne Ryan, Suzanne Ryan Grant Writing Services

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Fantastic!

Stacy Sage

Completely invaluable insight and information. Maryn is so brilliant at unpacking what can be a daunting process. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because some of the videos are produced somewhat inexpertly. which can be frustrating. (NO...

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