Bright Star Consultants offer an integrated knowledge management approach. Seminars and workshops are organized for structured knowledge exchange, the development of communities of practice and active support networks. “Hands on” experiences and post workshop support ensure that you are successful in addressing your needs and achieving your goals.

Sample grant workshop topics:

• Needs assessments

• Fundable project design

• Timelines and organization

• Evaluation design and implementation

• Budget development/fundraising plans

• Research tools and techniques – where’s the money?

• Letters of Inquiry

• Case and credibility statements

• Grant proposal reading and writing

• Trends in grant-making

• Proposal pitfalls

• Grant management

• Increasing diversified funding

• Why wasn't my grant proposal funded?

Our approach to instruction is to utilize as much real world, interactive, and applied learning as possible. We scaffold topics so that concepts build on and reinforce each other. Students increase confidence with early success with in-class activities that become more difficult in measured steps of difficulty. Workshop topics and content is tailored to your organization and needs so that all examples reflect on your real world issues. Completed class work documents become the foundation of future proposal development. When you leave class you will be most of the way to a completed proposal.

We believe that learning grant development and proposal writing is best done in relation to overall organizational readiness and within a total funding strategy. Competition for philanthropic dollars is growing as exponentially as community need. Funders are not willing to finance ineffective organizations and their programs or organizations without comprehensive funding strategies. Training to be an effective organization is integral to being a strong grant applicant. Bright Star’s training incorporates organizational readiness into grant development and writing skill sets so that integration is natural and clearly understood.