From Sticky Notes to Strategy: How to Build a Dynamic Grants Manual
Grant professionals know our grant development process and have an abundance of tools - but how do we effectively convey that to others? Many of us create a text-based documents that may never be referenced again!
Instead, build an individualized Dynamic Grants Manual that uses sticky notes to conceptually visualize four components: development, narrative writing, budget creation, and submission.
This Dynamic Grants Manual may be easily accessed, updated, and shared with your development team and/or successor. The visual graphic may even be shared with clients to quickly illustrate your process.
In this session, learners will:
Learn the sticky notes method to identify the details of their grant development process
Use design thinking to strengthen and/or streamline their process
Visualize how a graphic design can illustrate the grant development process, and link to documents and tools that may easily be updated
About our Speakers
M. Ellen Withrow, MS, GPC, served for 25 years as the Grants, Research, & Development Coordinator for the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit, an educational service agency in rural Pennsylvania. She attained over $150 million in federal, state, and local funding for early childhood education, K-12 and afterschool programming, workforce development, and much more. She has had careers as a Multimedia Designer and Congressional Legislative Assistant. She is the founder of Grant Edventures, LLC.
Mallory Weymer serves as the Grant Research & Development Manager at Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit (CSIU), an education service agency based in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining CSIU she had over ten years of experience in higher education administration, where she specialized in assessment, grant writing, communications, student development, and retention. Mallory holds a B.S. in graphic design and a M.S. in Organizational Communications.