Are You Ready for Federal Grants?

About the Event:
Are You Ready for Federal Grants?
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the ins and outs of writing and preparing federal grants. Topics to be discussed include how to find opportunities, deciding when to go for it and assessing a request for proposal. This workshop will also cover in-depth all the required sections of a federal grant proposal—need, project description, goals and objectives, organization capacity, evaluation plans, and sustainability. Finally, it will cover what to do before you finally “push the button”!
Participants in this workshop will receive extensive notes, examples, and other handouts for your own grantwriting toolbox.
About the Presenter:
Kent Hornberger is a Certified Grant Professional with over 40 years of experience in not for profit management and fund raising.
Kent currently serves of the national board of the Grant Professionals Certification Institute that is dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector’s ability to pursue and maintain public and private sector funding by promoting competency and ethical practices within the field of grantsmanship.
Kent is immediate Past-President of the St. Louis Regional Chapter of the GPA and served for three years as the Chairman of the GPA’s Higher Education Special Interest Group. He has held leadership positions in other professional organizations including the Association for Fundraising Professionals, and the Jesuit Advancement Association.
Kent has taught courses on the principles and practices of grant writing/management, critical analysis skills, communications, ethics and project management at several St. Louis area Colleges and Universities. He has been a frequent workshop presenter at both regional and national conferences of the Grant Professionals Association, the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, the Council for the Advancement of Support for Education, the Jesuit Advancement Association, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. He has also served on the board of numerous not-for-profit organizations including Catholic Family Services and EarthDance Farms.