GWFPP: Enhancing Grant Proposal Readability to Enrich the Grant Reviewers’ Experience

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

Description: In grant proposals, vibrant and precise writing is critical to ensuring that grant reviewers understand what you are trying to convey. Even if you have the most worthwhile solution to a social problem, if you cannot clearly articulate it, you will not succeed in securing the necessary dollars you need to make it a reality. This session will give you the tools you need to write clear and concise proposals that are easily understandable and appealing to the reader. This session is full of best practices and pro-tips to help you level up your proposal writing skills.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how to think through the eyes of the grant reviewer and the funder.
2. Define the difference between readability and skim-ability.
3. Identify ways to enhance the readability of your grant proposals.

Presenter: 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.