Grants Writing Glow Up (May 2nd 10:30am-12:30pm CST)

Learning to write a great grant proposal — the kind that gets new funders to invest in your nonprofit — can be daunting. You have to be a great writer, project manager, finance whiz… on top of everything else you’re doing every day! And, when you look for tips on how to write grants, you’re bombarded with to-do lists, webinars, and conflicting information.

Instead of spending your time sifting through information that may not apply to you, wouldn’t you rather invest in giving your current grant proposals a glow up?

The words we use matter. The stories we tell have an impact. Yet, our grants are often full of old, recycled language and buzzword descriptors that are more than just boring — they’re harmful. Grant writers play a critical role in branding the organization and crafting the ways in which it is presented to funders, and thus they are critical in integrating social justice into fundraising programs - and the overall culture and work of their organization. 

Use Your Grants as A Tool of Change

Giant Squid Group’s Grant Writing Glow Up is an immersive, two-hour workshop that explores how grant writers at all stages of their careers can ground their grant writing practices in race, equity, and social justice.  Participants will explore the ways in which we talk, teach, and practice nonprofit work can uphold harmful systems of oppression - or use their writing to further anti-racist, community-centric principles. From word choices to storytelling, we’ll delve into how to deconstruct grant writing and identify alternatives that writers can start using right away.

The Workshop

We start with a ~30 minute deep dive into aligning our grant narratives with equity, liberation, and asset-based language, then break into small groups for individualized grant reviews through an intersectional feminist and anti-racist lens.