Join us on Thursday, November 11th at 10:00am CST!
The words we use matter. The stories we tell have an impact. Yet, our grants are often full of old, recycled language, buzzword descriptors that are downright boring, and a lot of “we’ve always done it this way.”
If you are a grant writer who wants to improve your grant writing, this grant writing glow up is for you.
As a grant writer, you play a critical role in branding your organization, and crafting the ways your mission and work are presented to funders. But, trying to grow your grants program can be daunting. How can you be a great writer, project manager, finance whiz...and also integrate social justice into your fundraising?
Give Your Grants a Glow Up
Giant Squid Group’s Grant Writing Glow Up is an immersive, two-hour workshop for real people who want to write better grants. This is not another webinar about best practices or prospect research. It’s a candid, no-bullshit masterclass with real fundraisers who write, submit, and win millions of dollars in grant funding every year.
Our November Grants Glow Up is focused on decolonizing your grant writing, using people-first language, and integrating ethical storytelling. It’s for anyone who wants to write better grants, but particularly for writers passionate about using their words to change the world.
Every minute of the two-hour workshop is focused on going from generalizations to specific next steps in your grant writing process.
The Grant Writing Glow Up Workshop Includes:
Decolonizing your grant language. The workshop will start with a facilitated discussion about how to use people-first language and ethical storytelling in your grant proposals, and how to overcome objections from managers and funders.
A deep dive into YOUR grant proposals. Submit a grant (or section of a grant) before the workshop and get real-time, one-on-one coaching during breakout sessions with our team, then learn as your neighbors take their turn in the “hot seat.”
Essential resource sharing. The workshop wraps up with a feedback session and an opportunity for you to ask questions like “what is the best grant tracking software?” or “how do I handle burnout?” We’ll create a resource roundup plus takeaways and next steps just for you
A network of support. Registration includes an invitation to join a Facebook community of nonprofit professionals, coaches, and peers all working to make the world a better place!
Only 20 Seats Available - Register Today!
The Grant Writing Glow Up is valued at $99 but like all of our programs, you can choose your registration price.
While not all nonprofits have the same resources, we want them to have access to fundraising practices that help them build stronger communities, center marginalized voices, and work towards transformative change. Our Pay What You Want fee structure ensures we can offer quality programs and invest in our team, while also committing to economic justice.
Presenters & Facilitators
Catherine Ashton, Founder & CEO of Giant Squid Group
Catherine Ashton (she/her) is on a mission to change the way nonprofits raise money. As the founder of Giant Squid Group LLC, Catherine works with nonprofits to land donors, win grants, and fund their works. She is a sought-after coach, speaker, and strategist locally and nationally, and specializes in helping organizations marry best practices and mission-aligned innovation to drive systems-level change.
Catherine is dedicated to promoting inclusivity and equity in the nonprofit sector, and has been a raging feminist from a young age. In her “outside of work” time she's volunteering with the Austin Diaper Bank, or chasing her energetic daughter, Rosalind down the nearest hiking trail.
Corinna Archer Kinsman, Director of Special Projects at Creative Action
A native Austinite, Corinna was serving as an AmeriCorps Member with Communities In Schools of Central Texas when she began volunteering making costumes for Creative Action in 2011. Bringing with her a passion for creativity and service, Corinna has been a volunteer, Teaching Artist, and AmeriCorps VISTA at Creative Action before joining the development team. In her current role, Corinna leads and manages all aspects of fundraising, stewardship, and cultivation of institutional supporters, as well as supporting impact evaluation and strategic planning. Corinna serves on the Board of the Austin-Central Texas Chapter of the Grant Professionals Association and has co-chaired the annual Central Texas Funders Forum for five years; serves on the Strategic Planning Committee for The Christi Center; and has served on committees for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Learn All the Time Network, and Black Mamas ATX. Corinna is a member of the 2018 Leadership Austin Emerge Class and the inaugural 2018 Mission Capital Data Leaders Academy. Corinna holds a BFA in Dramaturgy and a minor in French and Francophone Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master of Science in Social Work with a concentration in Administration and Policy Practice from the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at UT Austin.