This three day seminar features three of our most popular courses: Proposal Writing Seminar, Proposal Budgeting Workshop, and Cultivating Grantmaker Relationships. We'll show you how to craft a comprehensive and compelling proposal package, and create a sound, well-organized proposal budget. This course will help you become a more effective partner to your funders.

Gain a better understanding of the grantseeking process with independent, corporate, and community foundations, and position your organization as a desirable partner for grantmakers.

Learn to find funders for your nonprofit with the Foundation Center's premiere funding research tool; navigate and use the wide range of resources available on the Foundation Center's newest web site, GrantSpace.org; and learn how to identify and research individual donors.

Learn how to engage your board in fundraising.

With panelists from Social Velocity and Ashoka, we'll discuss how social entrepreneurs make and measure social impact and what qualities social entrepreneurs possess.

Take away practical tips for engaging and cultivating donors from younger generations.

Get to know your fellow nonprofit colleagues.

Learn the key components of a proposal to a foundation.

Learn to prepare and present a budget in a grant proposal.