Download the Prevention Grant Writing Toolkit

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Your next federal grant awaits. Let’s start writing.

Grant writing is essential to building a thriving organization in the field of mental health promotion and substance use prevention. But it’s not always easy to know where to start.

Download the Prevention Grant Writing Toolkit, a step-by-step guide to winning that next 6 and 7 figure federal grant from grantors like SAMHSA and the CDC. The toolkit includes checklists, questions, and do-it-yourself guides to help you be organized and in control of your next grant writing journey.

Level-up your grant writing skills and follow along with three no-cost recorded workshops below where you’ll learn how to plan for successful grant writing, tackle the project narrative and budget, and improve your grant writing skills by reviewing real-world examples.

Workshop #1: Planning for Successful Grant Writing

In this first workshop, you will learn how to select grants, create a grant timeline, write proposals, develop pre-written materials, build a grant-writing team, use common frameworks like SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, demonstrate community engagement, and form effective partnerships with agreements.

On the run? Listen to a recent podcast episode generated based on this presentation.

Workshop #2: Writing a Winning Proposal Narrative

In this second workshop, you will learn how to:

  1. Write a compelling problem statement

  2. How to write a strong project description

  3. Develop goals and objectives

  4. Evidence-based/informed strategies

  5. Design an evaluation plan

  6. Describe staff and organizational experience

  7. Draft a project budget

Workshop #3: Analyzing and Learning from Real-World Examples

In this final workshop, I’m joined by experienced prevention grant expert Keri-Lyn Coleman of Collaborative Planning Group as we test out some real grant proposals shared by workshop attendees. We also share some of our real-world examples so you can see how to improve real grant applications for success in state and federal grant proposals.