Grants are NOT Free Money … You Must Put in the Work!

Grants are often the first go-to in a nonprofit’s arsenal of fundraising tools when in reality they should be the “cherries on top” in any annual development plan. Why, you may ask, when so many nonprofit leaders consider grants “free and easy” money?  In this session, Roxane plans to describe the role grants should play in an overall fundraising scenario using the 3 R’s of Research, Relationships and wRiting.

This presentation is not intended to be a Grants 101 cram session, but rather an innovative perspective on how nonprofit leaders should view and use grants in their overall fundraising strategies.

Roxane Johnson, GPC, Senior Grant Writer for Operation Breakthrough, is a 30-year veteran in the grants profession, initially writing grants while working under other job titles. She served on the board of the Heart of America Chapter of the Grant Professionals Association for four years, the last three as its…