Theme: Describing the Organization and Project or Business Idea:

• Know what six questions a grant proposal should answer.
• Fill out Form 1.1 on page 9 in the Winning Grants book and the Basic Business Form on page 3 of The Successful Business Plan.
• Develop the questions you would use if you were just starting to work with a client and email to me. We will share these questions identify common themes.
• Note I will be out of town and offline from Wednesday, March 26th to Monday March 31st.

By Monday of Week 2, please select the business and/or nonprofit that you want to focus on in completing the exercises for this course and email me a one-paragraph description.

The organization may be real or invented, but I recommend using a real idea or business as a base. Fiction can take extra time! On the grant proposal front, I really encourage you to go to www.nonprofitaustin.org, select and contact an organization to work with as a volunteer or to come to me for some leads. Many organizations would be happy to have your help.

Reading

·       Winning Grants Step by Step pgs. 1-11. Complete the worksheets with your project in mind.*

• Successful Business Plan: Foreword and pgs. 1-35. Complete the worksheets with your project in mind.*