Grant Writing Made Easier

You learn about grant opportunities that might be a good fit at the 23rd hour and have to throw together an application that is nowhere near what it could be.

Or you aren't hearing about grants that you're eligible for at all and are wondering how these other nonprofits are pulling in grant after grant.

After spending the last 9 years writing grants for small to medium-sized nonprofits and then teaching thousands of students learn to write successful grants, I have consistently seen and heard the same grant issues persist for nonprofit leaders.

They're tired, burnt out, and nervous when it comes to grants. They know grants can be the key to bringing in consistent and large amounts of revenue, but, frankly, they have no clue how to do it.

Had a clear grant pipeline that builds relationships + trust rapidly with new grantmakers?
Knew the exact story, program designs, and data that compel grantmakers to invest in your work?
Could control your fundraising costs by spending NOTHING on grant writers or grant writing consultant and get better results?
Knew how to streamline and speed up the grant writing process through AI so you could spend MORE time doing what you really love?
Had the ability to ensure to serve more people, start new programs, and finally have financial security and the sense of relief that comes with it?

This course is designed for grant writers of all levels, including:

Novice grant writers who need a step-by-step guide to getting started quickly
Intermediate grant writers who want to take their grant writing to the next level, while saving time
Expert grant writers who need to learn how to take AI beyond the basic responses it gives to their prompts so they can start saving time, but keep the quality of their proposals high
Anyone who wants to learn how to become a grant writer and strategist with a high award rate, while also spending waaaay less time doing so

Yes, You Can Use AI to Help You Write Large Grants!

"I was just awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Lilly Foundation!

I took your grant writing workshop during the beginning of the pandemic and was totally overwhelmed and thought I'd never be able to get a grant for my work area.

Then I received your email about attending a training to learn how to write a grant 1 hour…using AI. I went - was totally amazed.

Before noon that day I had an 8-page draft of a potential grant.

Using AI, I was able to put together the structure and bones of a good proposal. By the end of my work (about 2 weeks), I had 20 pages of a proposal in a total 47-page grant.

I tell everyone that your training on how to use AI to write a grant is what launched me in the writing process.

SO - I just thought you would want to know that. I'm beyond excited. Thank you for what you do."

-Pam Phillips-Burk
Pastoral Development Ministry Team Leader, Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Write Your Standard Grant Narrative Training

In the Standard Grant Narrative unit, you will learn to create a stand-alone narrative that contains everything you could ever need for a grant proposal, including the Organizational Info: History & Mission section, Statement of Need section, Program Design and Logic Model section, and Budget (both organizational and program-specific). You'll also learn how to write other components like LOI's, abstracts, timelines, thank-you letters and more.

We provide you with a standard grant narrative template as well as individual lessons for every grant section, each with a detailed video and workbook that will help you complete each section of your standard grant narrative. You'll also get templates for Gantt charts, budgets, LOI's, and more!

Even though we also teach you how to use AI to streamline and reduce much of the work of writing a standard grant narrative, we've found it's still crucial for grant writers to have detailed knowledge of what makes a good narrative and be able to write one on their own because you need to be able to check AI's work, tell it what to do to improve it's writing, and be able to revise what AI produces to be original and better than what AI (so far) can write.

Ultimately, AI is an incredible assistant, but so many people are using it now that you need to have the skills to stand out from thousands of AI-generated grant proposals.

In the lessons listed below, we include 4.5 hours of video and 200 pages of workbooks.

In the Org Info: History & Mission lesson you will learn:

How to speak to your grantmaker's priorities
How to tell a compelling story, whether you are applying as an organization or as an individual
How to decide what information is relevant and important to include
How to refine your mission if you’re not sure it’s strong enough
How to interview others to include an outside or second perspective on your organization’s significance
How to revise this section for style
How to answer questions about your board
Other highly-specific questions that might be included in this section that you weren’t expecting
How to talk about yourself in an individual history section for an individual artist or academic research grant

In the Statement of Need lesson you will learn:

How to figure out exactly who you’re serving and exactly why they need it
How to do research, both secondary and primary
How to evaluate potential sources and decide what is most relevant to your argument
How to incorporate research that clearly demonstrates need
How to make a convincing argument, using rhetorical principles
How to avoid logical fallacies
How to tell a compelling story with evidence

In the Program Design & Logic Model lessons you will learn:

How to plan strong goals and objectives
How to design credible strategies
How to determine what resources you need
How to create a descriptive and memorable program or project name
How to differentiate yourself from your competition
How to find collaborators and talk about them in your proposal
How to design program promotion strategies
How to pilot and launch your program
How to plan and talk about program sustainability
How to evaluate your program using metrics
How to explain how you will promote your grantmaker once you get the grant
The components of the mysterious logic model and how to fill one out correctly

In the Budget lesson you will learn:

How to adhere the budget requirements and format
The components of a budget and what they mean
How to estimate expenses and revenue for a program or project
What to include in the organizational budget
What to include in budget justifications

In the All the Little Details lesson you will learn:

What type of organization/business/individual you are and which grants you qualify for
How to write an executive summary or abstract
How to create a timeline
How to write LOI’s
How to create your grant's appendix
How to write thank you letters
How to conduct site visits with grantmakers
How to do grant reporting

If you know how to use AI effectively, it can help you write more compelling grant proposals by:

Improving your program design by suggesting strategies, activities, and metrics and evaluation you may not have thought of otherwise. It can also research and suggest partners, benchmark similar programs, and contextualize your program within your local landscape.
Helping you to develop a stronger narrative and argument. AI can help you to identify the most compelling aspects of your grant proposal and to develop a narrative that will resonate with the funder.
Tailoring your writing to the specific needs of each funder. AI can analyze the funder's guidelines and identify their key priorities and evaluation criteria to tailor your writing to each funder.

Overall, AI can help you to write grant proposals that are more clear, concise, persuasive, leading to a significant increase in your grant award rate.

The average foundation grant proposal takes 10-15 hours to write. Government grants can take 40 hours or more to produce. By automating many of the time-consuming tasks involved in grant writing, such as research, data analysis, and drafting boilerplate text, AI can free up grant writers to focus on the things that matter most, such as developing strong narratives and arguments or applying for even more funding.

If you're a busy nonprofit or government leader writing grants for your organization, you know that reducing the amount of time spent grantseeking will free you up to run and grow the nonprofit so that your grant funding has a bigger impact. If you're an academic, you can spend less time on grant writing and more time on research or teaching.

Christina
Colley

"I’m an intermediate grant writer. I’m an attorney and an accountant, and I learned SO MUCH!!!! The course truly has something for everyone!! From prompt engineering to budget creation to researching to support your grant narrative… it has everything. The trainings are phenomenal!!! Recordings, live sessions, downloadable sheets… you can’t ask for more!

I was an AI skeptic before meeting Krista at the Instrumtl seminar. Now, I’m a believer and tell everyone to come and join!

A rookie grant writer becomes a pro. A fearful grant writer becomes fearless. And a good grant writer becomes great. And an expert grant writer can now become a consultant.

Krista, you are fabulous!! I’m amazed at the care you take with each of us, your students, and the material.

I’ve improved in grant writing speed, program development, grant success… just in everything. If you do the program you will improve! Best money I’ve spent."

Allyson
Martinez

"Learning to use AI adds a professional grant writer in your business for free.

If you want to have the basics of a winning proposal drafted and just need to fine-tune it to your specific needs then this is something you should try, especially as a new or small nonprofit.

Thank you for doing this. It cleared some of the fear of trying something new and encourages me to see how this could positively impact my non-profit's ability to get successful proposals drafts , evaluation plans created, and program roadmaps created fast."

It's designed and taught by a currently practicing grant writing consultant who holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing and has 7+ years of experience teaching university writing.
Our second writing instructor is also a currently practicing grant writing consultant, has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing, and 10 years teaching university writing.
It focuses on teaching you the most actionable, immediate, effective means of getting your grant submitted and awarded.
It also includes super-detailed trainings for anyone who wants to go deeper and become a grant writing expert.
It actually helps you complete the work through workbooks, templates, and live writing workshops, so you're not left trying to implement lessons on you own.

Do I get lifetime access to the course?

You will have access to all of the course content for as long as you are current on your payments. That means month-to-month members will have continued access as long as their payments are made every 30 days. That means annual members will need to pay each year for continued access to the course. During that time, you can download the recordings and the workbook for your continued use after your membership ends. If your payment fails to process, you will lose course access.

Scott
C.

"This is revolutionary for a small nonprofit with limited resources.

I have submitted several successful grants to government entities, foundations, and individual donors. I joined to learn how to streamline and accelerate the process to achieve more detailed and impactful proposals. In the training, I have learned the iterative effectiveness of prompting and my favorite thing about the training has been having my mind blown!

I would absolutely recommend this training to anyone who wants to learn to write grants with AI. Thank you for taking the time to develop this course and share it. What a time-saver."

Khaim
Morton

"I highly recommend this training and education to anyone who wants to boost their productivity.

As someone who has written grants for non-profits and private sector companies, as well as local, state, and federal entities, I can say that while I have had some success, I recognized that there is always room for improvement. That's why I decided to sign up for the AI grant writing training program.

Thanks to the program, I learned how to write prompts that generate the information I need, as well as different types of prompts that help me write various sections of the application. Once I understood how to use the tool, I was amazed at how quickly I could complete tasks.

The training was certainly helpful for me, and I am excited to continue using the workbooks provided."

Melissa D.
Guerrero

"Thanks to the training, I now know how to apply for more grants than I ever thought possible as a regular person.

Despite putting in several grant applications, I had yet to win any. That's when I decided to enroll in the AI grant writing program with the goal of learning how to complete grant applications quickly so I could apply for more.

One of the key takeaways from the program was how to make a conversation with the AI to get a more customized grant proposal. This was incredibly helpful in showing me how to tailor my proposals to the specific requirements of each grant.

I learned a lot in the training and was able to complete writing a grant proposal, with the exception of the graphics and budget narrative required by federal grantmakers.

Overall, I highly recommend this program to anyone looking to improve their grant writing skills."

I'm Krista, and I can't wait to cheer you on as you write your next grant.

As founder, CEO, and principal grant writer of Krista Kurlinkus, LLC, I have written winning multi-million dollar federal grants; global development grants; state grants; six-figure academic research grants; and corporate, private, and community foundation grants.

In 2016, after working with nonprofit, government, and academic research clients around the country, I designed my first online grant writing course in hopes of democratizing grant funding for small organizations.

I draw on my expertise as a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies and my 7+ years of teaching university writing to provide the best grant writing education on the market.

If any of these sound like you, Grant Writing Made Easier is for you:

1. You often see grant opportunities that seem like a perfect fit for your work, but can't quite wrap your head around the requirements.

2. You know what you need to say, but don't know how to say it. You end up sitting in front of a blank screen, the blinking cursor counting down the seconds until the grant is due.

3. You're not sure which grants to apply for at all or even how to go about evaluating the likelihood of getting a grant award.

4. You're tired of trying to figure everything out on your own or through grant writing books that speak in generalities and don't actually help you figure out your needs, your particular situation.

5. You want to become a compelling writer, a savvy program designer, an adept budgeter.

6. Put simply, you want to write successful grants.

THE FUTURE OF GRANT WRITING IS HERE

Win More.

Work Less.

Most nonprofit leaders know the potential grants have to grow their impact, but there's a huge problem.

Most nonprofits can't afford

to hire a full-time grant writer.

I'm here to tell you it's not your fault.

What if there were an easier way?

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Yes, You Can Use AI to Help You Write Large Grants!

What You Get & Learn

When You Join

Write Your Standard Grant Narrative Training

10 Hours of Grant Writing with AI Video Training

Monthly Grant Writing Workshops

AI Prompt Cheatsheet & Workbook

New Live Grant Writing with AI Trainings

Exclusive Grant Writer GPT

How to Get Grant Ready Training

How to Find Grants Training

How to Create a Strategic Plan Training

How to Manage Your Finances Training

Become a Better Writer Training

Community on Mighty Networks

Grant Strategy Template

Grant Writing Project Mgmt. Templates

Coming Soon!

Course Guides

Check-Your-Understanding Quizzes

Here's What You'll Be Able to Do

Rapidly Increase Your Grant Award Rate

10X Your Grant

Writing Speed

Create Reusable Building Blocks for Any Grant

Revise & Edit to Perfection

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