Funding Finder: Discovering the Right Grants for Your Mission

CEUs: Prevention, CHES
3 Hours
Domains: PS2: Administration & Consultation

Description: Finding grants for your prevention organization is a lot like shopping for a pair of jeans. They come in all shapes and sizes, require some self-reflection, and it can be an incredibly time-consuming process. And let’s face it… maybe it’s not your favorite thing to do! This session will equip intermediate and advanced prevention professionals with the knowledge and resources to make finding grant opportunities more efficient and effective. Whether it’s local, state, or federal government grants you’re looking for, or it’s public, private, or corporate foundations, this session will show you both best practices and short cuts that will save you time and find you opportunities you had no idea existed!

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the term prospect research.
2. Describe a minimum of two best practices in finding foundation grant opportunities.
3. Describe a minimum of two best practices in finding government grant opportunities.

Presenter: Deborah Combs, MA & Katie Wolf MS, CHES, OCPS