GREENABILITY - ONLINE FUNDRAISING TRAINING COURSE

HOW TO GET A GRANT

Greenability, a program of online fundraising training courses
with special features for Ontario environmental nonprofits offers its' next
course - How to Get a Grant - starting Oct. 28 through mid December.
Greenability courses are designed for small grassroots groups and are led by Ken
Wyman, one of Canada's foremost fundraisers.

How to Get a Grant will run for nine weeks and is designed to
help non-profits get grants and (to a lesser degree)
sponsorships from corporations, foundations, governments and
a variety of institutional funders.
Topics include:
- Are you ready to go for grants?
- Proposal writing
- Sources of grants
- Networking
- Sponsorships
- Planning for more funding in the future
- Goods and services- donations "in-kind"
- Ethical issues
- Research

Special partnerships have been negotiated with the Canadian Centre
for Philanthropy Foundation Directory
(http://www.ccp.ca/directory/index.html)
and BIG Database (http://bigdatabase.ca) for this course. Participants
in How to Get a Grant will gain full access to these two online
databases of funding sources during the course.

When you enroll and receive your password, you will get access
to reading materials, interactive lessons, facilitated listserv
discussions groups, answers to your emailed questions,
detailed guides on key fundraising issues, sample letters and

Online guest experts (including funders and fundraising professionals).
Your online experts in nonprofit accounting will be David Robertson CA
and Lloyd Turner CA from Prentice Yates and Clark (www.pyc.net)
Your online legal advisor will be Brian Iler, of Iler, Campbell, Barristers and Solicitors,
who specializes in nonprofit law."

How to Get a Grant costs only $95 per participant (regularly $130).
Program fees are subsidized by Volunteer Action Online (Ontario
Ministry of Citizenship and Culture). Organizations should register
at least two people for each course - staff, board and volunteers
- to build your organizational capacity.

Watch for more Greenability courses soon on
Fundraising Fundamentals,
Special Events,
Major Donors,
Direct Mail, and
Volunteer management
Register online now at
www.greenability.org

Reserve your spot now if you need time to obtain approval.

Technical Requirements. Course participants must have access
to a computer (PC486 or higher) with Internet access (Internet Explorer
not Netscape), email and Microsoft Word (or similar)
for at least three hours per week. If you do not have a computer,
check your local library.

Greenability is a joint project of Sustainability Network,
Ken Wyman & Associates Inc., the Conservation Council of Ontario,
Web Networks and Volunteer Action Online.