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Course checklist

A one-page recap of the whole course — the things to walk away understanding. Print it, check them off, and use it to spot what’s worth a reread.

Let's All Get Right

Grant Writing

How grant money actually works, who gives it and why, and how to write a proposal that answers the questions a funder is really asking.

Understanding Grants

  • What a Grant Actually IsMoney you do not repay, given for a stated purpose — and why that second half is the entire obligation people underestimate.
  • Who Funds, and Why They CareGovernment, foundations, and corporate giving want different things and read proposals differently. Matching the funder is most of the work.
  • Scholarships and Grants for IndividualsMoney for a person rather than an organization — where it comes from, why the small awards are the winnable ones, and what an essay is actually being read for.
  • Finding Opportunities, and Ruling Them OutWhere grant listings actually live, and the short vetting pass that stops you spending forty hours on something you were never eligible for.

Writing the Proposal

  • Reading the Call ProperlyThe most under-read document in grant writing, and how to turn it into an outline, a checklist, and a scoring sheet before you write a sentence.
  • The Needs Statement and the Logic ModelEstablishing a problem with evidence before proposing anything, and mapping resources to activities to outputs to outcomes on one page.
  • Writing the NarrativeObjectives someone else could check, a method that shows you have done this before, and the evaluation and sustainability sections everyone leaves until last.
  • Budgets and the Justification Nobody Reads Carefully EnoughDirect and indirect costs, why overhead is real work rather than waste, and how a budget quietly tells a reviewer whether you have done this before.

After You Submit

  • Submitting, and What Comes NextThe last week, the obligations that start when the money arrives, and why a rejection is the cheapest information you will ever get.

Educational recap only — not individual financial advice. Figures in the course may change over time; verify anything time-sensitive against a current official source.