7 Tips to Write Grants Like a Pro with Holly Rustick

If you're coming across Writer's Block when it comes to starting to write grants for your nonprofit, then this free grant training is for you. In this one-hour grant workshop, we dig into specific tactics that Holly Rustick has used to write effective grants that win funding. You'll walk away with an example for each tip that you can start applying for your own grant applications.

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Holly Rustick - 7 Tips to Write Grants Like a Pro

Key Takeaways

In this Instrumentl Partner Webinar, we learn from Holly Rustick as she shares some of the best grant writing strategies she has developed in her 15+ years of grant writing career.

By the end of this Instrumentl Partner Workshop, you'll be able to:

  • ​Articulate your goals for your grants clearly
  • ​Narrow down on SMART objectives
  • ​Outline a budget that matches activities
  • ​Submit more grants on-time
  • ​​Understand how Instrumentl saves you time and money in identifying the right opportunities for your programs

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Holly Rustick is the founder of Grant Writing & Funding and a bestselling author. She teaches nonprofit leaders actionable steps to learn grant writing skills and strategic planning and hosts the top-ranked grant writing podcast. Her podcasts offer inside tips, tools and templates for grant writers.

Instrumentl Partner Webinars are collaborations between Instrumentl and its community partners to provide free educational workshops for grant professionals. Our goal is to tackle a problem grant professionals often have to solve, while also sharing different ways Instrumentl’s platform can help grant writers win more grants. Click here to save a seat in our next workshop.

Click the video link below to start watching the replay of this free grant workshop, or check out the transcriptions below the video.

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