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Last Updated: 11/6/2009 11:24:06 AM

Grant Writing Workshop Offered by Nationally Acclaimed Expert

Are you struggling to find grants that can help your organization stay afloat? Dr. Bev Browning, who has assisted clients and workshop participants throughout the United States in receiving awards of more than $200 million, will offer a full day workshop through Yavapai College’s Custom Training Solutions department. The workshop will be held Friday, November 6, 2009, from 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. at the Yavapai College Career & Technical Education Center (CTEC) in Prescott.  
 
Dr. Browning is the author of over two dozen grants-related publications, including Grant Writing For Dummies™ and Grant Writing for Educators, How to Become a Grant Writing Consultant, Faith-Based Grants: Aligning Your Church to Receive Abundance, and Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals.  
 
Visit Dr. Browning’s website at: www.bevbrowning.com for more information about her background.  
 
Participants will learn how to find Arizona and national grant makers; match funder priorities to organizational needs; write award winning narrative sections for the Arizona Common Grant Application format and understand expectations of private and public sector grantmakers (includes information on how the application is scored by peer reviewers).  
 
At the end of the workshop, participants will  
 
• Find grant funding opportunities (Funder Web sites and subscription and free databases)  
 
• Know when to use a specific grant writing format  
 
• Understand technical and funding priority language found in grant application guidelines  
 
•Write to capture the peer reviewer’s or program officer’s interest and convince them that the grant applicant is capable and worthy of funding consideration  
 
• Differentiate and identify sources for in-kind and cash matching requirements  
 
• Quickly identify follow-up expectations from funders  
 
• Use the 40 tips to winning a phenomenal grant award to improve their own funding success rates.  
 
Dr. Browning will be giving away a one hour proposal review and critique (value of $1,000) and several of the books she has written during the workshop.  
 
For more information and to register for the workshop, contact Ginger Johnson at: 928-776-2119 or email at Ginger.Johnson@yc.edu.