Grant Writing for Prevention Professionals: Tips for Surviving a Group Grant Writing Process

CEUs: Prevention, CHES
3 Hours
Domains: PS2- Fiscal Management

Description: Many people serve as the sole grant writer for their prevention organization. However, many more people write grants in a team environment. While working with a team can ease the burden of the grant writing workload, it also comes with its own challenges (and personalities!). However, there are some very tangible ways to offset the challenges and capitalize on the benefits. This session will discuss the varying team dynamics that come into play during a grants team process and offer helpful suggestions, best practices, and tips for collaborative success that will ensure you get the grant written, written well, and out the door on time, without you wanting to pull out your hair!

Learning Objectives:

1. Articulate the pros and cons of grants team processes.
2. Define the volunteer management skills that can benefit a team process.
3. Describe a minimum of 2 best practices for effectively managing a grants team.

Presenter(s): Deborah Combs, MA
Deborah Combs is an experienced grant researcher and proposal writer whose work has won over $26 million in awards for nonprofit organizations in regions throughout southwest Ohio. In addition to two decades as a grant professional, she has ten years of experience as a composition instructor and English literature lecturer for Dayton-area colleges and universities, and she is also an experienced technical writer. She is a founding member and past president of the Grant Professionals Association’s Miami Valley Chapter (GPA MV) and a Grant Professional Certified (GPC) from 2009-2016. She holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Dayton with Minors in Communication Arts and Education. She brings her broad base of experience to You Thrive Training & Consulting to produce winning proposals to private, community, and corporate foundations and county, state, and federal funding opportunities.