Grant Writing for Prevention Professionals: Writing Grant Budgets & Budget Narratives That Tell a Story With Numbers!

CEUs: Prevention, CHES
3 Hours
Domains: PS2- Administrative and Consultation Education

Description: The grant budget and budget narrative are important components of your grant proposal because it shows the funder exactly what their valuable financial resources will support. While making a compelling written justification for your funding request is truly advantageous, so too is having a solid budget in order to paint a clear picture of your intentions. This session for intermediate prevention professionals picks apart the budget and budget narrative to help streamline your grant writing process while ensuring your funding request is complimentary to - and in complete alignment with - your written proposal.  

Learning Objectives:

1. Articulate the different parts of a grant budget.
2. Describe the steps to constructing a budget for your grant proposals.
3. Explain best practices when writing a budget narrative.

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.