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ACAM’s Training and Networking Program convenes Core Network partners to learn from each other, collaborate, and foster collective impact. Guided by carefully curated subject matter experts, partner staff engage in educational and networking sessions to expand knowledge, develop strong leadership, and increase resilience. By offering specialized training, group and one-on-one coaching, and opportunities for continuous feedback, ACAM’s Training and Networking Program ensures that partners have access to the tools, training, and resources they need to advance their mission and impact. These virtual and in-person convenings promote best practices, peer learning and information exchange through e-learning and training products offered to partners for free via webinars, conferences, and training materials. These quality offerings are provided to Core Network partners regardless of their ability to pay. Content stems from needs identified by ACAM’s partners, industry best practice standards, and the network’s commitment to the continuous improvement of client-centered programming. To further the program’s reach, out-of-network agencies can purchase an All-Access Pass (AAP) for $250, which provides a full year membership to ACAM’s virtual and in-person for up to three representatives to attend all trainings as well as access recordings
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The All-Access Pass (AAP) is $250 per agency and provides a full year of membership to ACAM’s Training and Networking Program. Participating agencies may send up to three representatives to attend any training and access recordings. Training sessions are typically $35 per person; at $250 per agency, AAP holders benefit from a deep discount $600 per person for a full years membership to ACAM’s trainings. Sign up for the 2025 All-Access Pass Here! If you have any questions, please contact Zoe Cagan, Training and Development Coordinator at zcagan@acamweb.org
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.
MARYN BOESS
Over her 35+-year nonprofit career, Maryn Boess has been an on-staff grantwriter; a grants consultant (winning $42 million for her clients over 10 years); a grants trainer; a grants reviewer, author, speaker, mentor and coach; and – starting in 2006 - even a grantmaker. This 3-D background brings a unique insider's perspective to the practical, inspiring trainings on healthy, successful grantsmanship she shares with thousands of people each year through GrantsMagic U (Go.GrantsMagic.org). A true dual-citizen of the grants world, Maryn may be the only person holding membership in both Grant Professionals Association (for grantseekers) - and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (for grantmakers). In 2020, in recognition of her lifetime of contribution to the field, Maryn became just the second inductee into the international Grant Professionals Class of Distinguished Fellows.