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Dr. Beverly Browning (“Dr. Bev”) brings over four decades of experience to her speaking events. She has assisted clients and event attendees in strengthening the capacity of their professional acumen and organizational capacity. As a high profile grants consultant, Dr. Bev is credited with more than $430 million in contract and grant awards. She is the author of 42 publications and is in high demand for facilitating training programs and delivering keynote speeches nationwide and internationally.
Dr. Bev is an independent consultant and also the Director of the Grant Writing Training Foundation. In 2011, she became a member of the eCivis, Inc., family when she was offered the opportunity to start a new services division. In 2015, Dr. Bev trademarked Be the Shining Light™, a motivational keynote speech theme that is being developed into a workbook and workshops for individuals seeking personal and professional life-changes. In 2016, she was appointed Vice President of Client Capacity Building with eCivis, Inc.
Program Design Best Practices, Research and Writing Strategies (CDP861Y)
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How the Program Design Narrative Can Make or Break Your Funding Effort
The narrative section for your program design AKA plan of action is the most important section of any grant application or proposal. Are your goal statements obvious to the funding decision makers? What happens if the funders require ‘Smart’ goals instead of ‘Smart’ objectives? Do you know how to write your goals and/or objectives in the ‘Smart’ format? What else should be included in this section of the application or proposal?
In this webinar, expert speaker Dr. Beverly Browning will talk about the critical points you must include in your grant application's program design narrative. This must-include components have been proven to lead to higher levels of consideration for grant awards. The session will help you gain increased awareness about the importance of using best practice models to replicate or create a hybrid model to address the needs identified in your statement of need.
Understand how the program design narrative can make or break your funding request and how to write in SMART format for goals and objectives. The session will also help you connect the dots between your statement of need and the program design narrative with on-target language. Also, get to know the importance of work plans, logic models, management plans, and sustainability plans
Session Highlights:
- Researching best practices
- Outlining your program design narrative first
- Articulating the purpose of your funding request
- Writing goals
- Creating SMART goals and/or objectives
- Providing sufficient implementation details
- Creating a work plan
- Developing a logic model
- Detailing the management plan
- Writing a sustainability plan
Who Should Attend
- Grant writers of all skill levels and tenure in the grants industry
- Proposal writers
- Any grant writing team members including volunteers
- Nonprofit grants staff
- Unit of municipal government grants staff and others designated to research and write grant applications to any types of funders
- Nonprofit Board of Directors members that sit on the Grants Committee