Denied! Why 90% of Grant Applications Don’t Get Funded

Accessing more than 30 years of combined grantseeking and grantmaking experiences, this workshop reveals the hidden barriers to successfully navigating the grant application process. Grant proposals are declined for a variety of reasons, even though these projects have great merit. This unfortunate event can happen often, and it can be devastating to project teams who have invested many hours pursuing an award for worthy causes. It can often be most helpful to learn where we may misjudge, omit, miscalculate, or ignore small details to own detriment. Join us to learn the factors that cause this to happen so you can anticipate these surprising pitfalls. 

The workshop will cover topics related to:

• Common mistakes made in assessing whether a project and its budget are a good match for a particular funding opportunity; 
• How proposals are evaluated by reviewers and understanding the identities of reviewers; and
• Where application content can easily go wrong when it comes to specific application materials like narratives, letters, appendixes, and more.

Learn the pitfalls you can avoid to give your applications a more competitive chance of being awarded.

Outcomes:

• Knowledge of common mistakes made at every stage of the grantseeking process
• Greater understanding of reviewer protocols, comments, and viewpoints, and what can happen during the review process
• Learning about the most common mistakes made by applicants

Presenter: Bess de Farber has provided grantseeking instruction and collaboration workshops to thousands of library staff, nonprofit and academic professionals, artists, and university students in the past 33 years, and has led efforts to secure millions in grant funding for academic libraries and nonprofits. 

CALL Training Partner for this Event: LibraryWorks