Budget Building for Grant Writers (OPEN TRAINING)

An A+ proposal budget provides an honest, complete, and clear picture of the total value of everything it takes to do your work successfully. It also stands as an invaluable management and evaluation tool when it comes to running your grant-funded program. How can you craft this type of budget? That’s the question we’ll explore! Join ACAM for this two-part event with longtime grant professional and grant maker Maryn Boess, founder and chief magic-maker at GrantsMagic U!

*Free event for ACAM network partners and 2024 ACAM All-Access Pass holders. This event is $35 for all other attendees*

Part 1: Ahead of the training meeting, registrants will receive a link to in the GrantsMagic U video course, “Budget-Building for Grantwriters: The ‘Total-Value’ Framework for Crafting an A+ Project Budget – Every Time!” (You and your team can watch the video course any time you like, on your own schedule.)

Part 2: At our live Zoom meeting on May 30, Maryn will put on her Grantmaker’s Hat to tackle the questions that came up for you during the video course – and host a robust discussion about your own right-now challenges and concerns in navigating GrantsWorld successfully.

Be prepared for plenty of aha’s, hmm’s, surprises, and inspirations!

In this five-star video-based training, you will:

• learn and practice how to take a "total value” approach to budget-building, so you can clearly and compellingly show the value of everything it takes to do your work successfully;

•  work with a real-life scenario to go through each of the six major budget categories, looking at the key issues and challenges you can expect to run into in each one;

•  have the chance to whip out your calculator and try your own hand at thinking through some of the situations in a real-life scenario;

•  get a behind-the-scenes view of how grant makers evaluate your proposal budget and what your budget tells them about your organization; and

• clear away the confusion around the value of volunteer time, accounting for “match,” handling administrative/indirect costs, and other perennially perplexing budget issues.

•  BONUS: You’ll be introduced to GrantsMagic U’s exclusive powerful planning tool to help you craft a budget that is comprehensive, realistic, and bullet-proof—and that will work for you, your organization, and your grantmaking partners.

• Most importantly, you’ll walk away understanding how to break the “starvation cycle” that plagues many nonprofit organizations so you no longer understate the cost and value of your mission-critical work.