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

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

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 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.