Crafting Narratives The Will Set Your Grant Application Apart: Sustainability

Few grant application questions receive more groans from grant writers than “sustainability” questions. The tendency is to write a statement about how your organization will continue to diversify your fundraising strategy while stewarding existing donors. This response could be copied and pasted into every grant proposal written by just about every nonprofit organization across the country, but it does not help you get the grant.
This session will teach you new ways to think about sustainability and respond to sustainability prompts in a way that will set you apart from other applicants.
About the Presenter: Fielding Jezreel
Fielding Jezreel specializes in helping nonprofits plan and apply for federal grants. Using her passion for program planning, Fielding helps organizations streamline their grant funding strategy; pursue federal and other nationally competed grants; and provides one-on-one coaching to new grant writers.
Fielding has worked in the grants field since 2013 and has raised over $35 million for nonprofits. She has a Master of Social Work degree from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis where she now teaches grant writing. She served three years on the board of the St. Louis Chapter of the Grant Professionals Association and continues to support the Programs Committee to develop high quality professional development opportunities for grant professionals.