Fee: $20 for Spokes Members, $10 for companions

$40 for not-yet-members

Early Birds: Pay online one week in advance & receive $5.00 off

Your grant budget and budget narrative can make or break your grant application. Many grant reviewers look at the budget FIRST when reviewing a grant application. Include too many administrative costs or include overinflated estimates, grant reviewers may be irked. Reviewers may decide you are a risky investment, if you forget to ask for funds to support a critical resource needed for project success. Join us for this course and delve deeper into the topic of grant budgets – what to include and what not to include.

In this course, we will evaluate sample grant budgets and discuss:

--How to capture the true cost of a program in your request

--How to craft a grant budget for multiple grant submissions

--How to demonstrate match and in-kind contributions

Come prepared with questions for the instructor and your peers.

Prerequisite – You must have attended "Grant Writing Basics" or have previous grant writing experience

Facilitated by: 

Adrienne Harris, Nonprofit Consultant and former Director of the Morro Bay National Estuary Program. Adrienne has over fifteen years of experience working with nonprofit organizations and government to advance initiatives at the national, regional, and local levels. As a former nonprofit Executive Director, she has unique insights into the challenges facing small and mid-sized nonprofit groups. Adrienne has experience managing multi-year government and private foundation grants, as well as writing federal, state, local, and private grant applications. On the donor side, Adrienne has served on grant review panels at the federal and local level, as well as coordinated grant-giving programs. 

During her career, Adrienne has worked with grassroots and community-based organizations both in the U.S. and abroad. Among other past work, Adrienne served as a policy analyst for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C. She worked with farmers and fishermen as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, and was co-chair of Artomatic, a 1,000 plus artist art festival celebrating visual and performing arts in Washington, D.C.