Course Information:

How do you factor in volunteer time to your grant project budget? Should you put in overheads? How do you ask for salaries when funders don’t fund them?

Strategic Grants and their funder friends frequently see the same mistakes made in grant application budgets. Many funders have financial backgrounds and look to your budget section first when assessing grant applications.

This webinar covers the key steps to avoid budget pitfalls and put together a strong grant project budget to help give your applications their best chance at success!

Agenda:

  • What to include in your budget

Course Outcomes:

By the end of the webinar, your organisation will have:

  • An understanding of how to put together a strong project budget and what can and should be included (and what should not)
  • Information on how to calculate in-kind support
  • Understanding of how to package salaries into project budgets
  • Knowledge of frequently made mistakes in grant budgets and how to avoid them
  • A list of key budget checks to make before submitting

Audience

Who is the webinar suitable for?

Grants 101: Strong Project Budgets is suitable for not for profit and community organisation staff involved in project planning and grant applications.

About the Presenter:

 Jo Garner, Director of Strategic Grants, has been a professional fundraiser since 1994 and started providing professional grant services to charities in 2002. Jo is a CFRE, a Fellow of the Fundraising Institute of Australia and a regular presenter on the grant-seeking process both in Australia and internationally.

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