Join us Friday, March 5, at the Baker College of Owosso for MACAE’s Write for the Gold! Using Your Head and Your Heart to Write a Winning Grant workshop.

Grants can be a great source of program funding, but without the proper grant-writing skills, these opportunities will keep passing you by. Don’t let another slip away and register now!

Hosted by the MACAE Enrichment, Recreation & After School Focus Group, this workshop would greatly benefit all educators looking to hone their grant-writing skills.

At the workshop you’ll learn all the important information needed to write a winning grant. Not only do grants need to meet the given criteria, but writing the grant should fuel that passion in your heart and help you realized its importance.
Participants will:

• Delve into the mystery of grant scoring by looking at grants through the eyes
  of a reviewer,
• Learn how to build a complimentary grant-writing team that can become a
  successful foundation for your program,
• Explore key questions that hold answers to profitable grant writing,
• Learn how to review your own grants and effectively submit them, and
• Explore the basic elements of all types of grants (federal, state, foundation, business).

In addition to getting the straight facts, expert grant writers will be on hand to talk about their experiences writing grants for community education programs. Carolyn Rutledge, director of Michigan Family Literacy Training & Technical Assistance, and Dave Swierpel, director of Community Services and Professional Development at Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools in Flint, have brought in millions of dollars to their programs through grants.

Carolyn has worked for Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools in Flint since 1989 and holds her current position through a grant from the Michigan Department of Education. She has written successful federal and state grants, totaling approximately $3.5 million annually.

Dave has worked in community education since 1979. He has a bachelor’s degree in Community Education from Ferris State University and completed his graduate studies at the Regional Center for Community Education at the University of Alabama in Birmingham through a Mott Foundation Graduate Fellowship. As director of Community Services, he has been a part of several successful grant-writing teams for state, federal and foundation proposals.

The workshop is from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., with on-site registration available beginning at 8 a.m.

Make sure you don’t miss this great opportunity to learn how to submit a successful grant.

The deadline to register has been extended to 5 p.m. March 3. Click here to register.  Click here to preview the agenda.

Make checks payable to: MACAE, 4000 N. Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI 48864. Visa and MasterCard are accepted. Refund Policy: Full refund, minus $10 processing fee until March 1. No refunds will be given after this date.

If you have any questions, please call the MACAE office at (517) 706-5024.