Date: 11/2/2012
Time: 9:00 AM TO 3:00 PM

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Harrisburg, PA 17111

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Event Description: Grant seeking in Central Pennsylvania has never been more competitive than today. With information on grant opportunities so broadly available, most grant making foundations and agencies receive hundreds more worthy grant proposals for each funding cycle than they could ever fund. It is critically important that nonprofit organizations to learn how to set themselves apart by preparing winning grant applications. Give your proposals the competitive edge of a serious grant seeker. If you’re ready to get serious about grant writing, invest a day honing your skills with proven techniques for generating support. Why You Should Attend: To learn the strategies that professional grant writers use! •Tips for approaching Central PA foundations •Using dissemination of best practices strategy to approach Central PA foundations •Crafting the Letter of Inquiry •Developing and accessing proposal ideas •Technical components of a proposal •Criteria that grant makers use in evaluating proposals •Editing and packaging proposals •Advanced foundation research tips •Story-telling with passion and commitment •Quantifying Objectives and setting Performance Indicators and Outcome Projections for your grant-funded programs •Designing Evaluation Methodologies for your grant-funded projects •Demonstrating Financial Sustainability, and how that makes or breaks your proposal •Budgets and the all-important Budget Narrative •New trends in proposal formatting: imbedding photos, using color, etc. •Follow-up with grant makers and cultivation of relationships Pricing: PANO Member: $104 Nonmember: $188 (Light breakfast and lunch included with registration) 5.5 CFRE Credits Available Presented by: Eric Davis J.D., MBA, Owner: Procopio Fundraising and Managing Partner: Elliott & Davis, PC Hear what others had to say: “Great presenter, very approachable, great ideas & examples and he kept you involved and interested.” “Eric has a very interesting and information-dense presentation style – the day just flew by, and I now know a whole lot more than when I arrived!”


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