DEVELOP GRANTWRITING SKILLS!

Grantwriting Training Course led by David Maeir Epstein, MSSA

4 Sessions, Sundays 6-9 pm, November 4, 18, December 2, 16 2007

٭ Early-bird discount for registrants until October 28 ٭

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David Maeir Epstein, consultant in resource and organizational development for nonprofits, offers a 4-session 12-hour course in the art of grantwriting for non-profit organizations. Past participants have given uniformly positive feedback, citing the courses as informative and compelling, teaching important skills, valuable training and giving indispensable practical advice for obtaining employment, advancement and enhancing professional skills for work in grantwriting and fundraising. David Epstein, MSSA, has worked in the field of fundraising and grantwriting for over thirty years, serving as independent organizational consultant for tens of nonprofit organizations in Israel and assisting his clients in raising over $15.5 million in the last seven years. He has taught courses in Resource Development for Welfare Organizations at Hebrew University's Baerwald School of Social Work.

The course teaches essential skills such as: how to write grant proposals, how to identify and work with foundations, and how to gain employment as salaried staff or freelancers. While the course does not promise employment, graduates are provided with information about the many openings in the field of grantwriting in Israel. Many graduates have subsequently entered the field or advanced their position.

Course Description: The course consists of four meetings of three hours. Each meeting will be divided between lecture and hands-on grantwriting workshops, with each session dealing with a different aspect of grantwriting. Participants will be expected to write samples of the different parts of a proposal to be discussed in the following class. The meetings will take place every other week to give participants the opportunity to write these samples and to read pertinent articles and reading material.

The course is conducted in English, with Hebrew terms for key words. The teachers for the course are bi-lingual, so Hebrew speakers who need some help in English are invited to participate. Upon finishing the course graduates receive diplomas certifying their participation in the course.