Courses | Nonprofits

Do you desire more meaning in your work? Are you ready for a change but don't know how to get started? Or maybe you just need some extra help getting that special project off the ground? Our courses can help you expand your skills through life's challenges and changes and guide you to the path that leads to greater personal satisfaction.

Writing a Successful Grant Proposal
Fundraising for Nonprofits: Beyond Grants
Learn to Serve: Innovative Ways to Sustain Nonprofits

Writing a Successful Grant Proposal (1.5 CEUs)
Five Monday evenings:
Oct. 4, 11, 18, Nov. 1 and 15, 2010, 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $350 general public; $325 Antioch alumni, staff and faculty; $300 Antioch students

Learn how to help support a good cause and turn ideas into reality!

Whether you're a staff member, a volunteer or you are exploring a career in professional grant writing, this course helps you learn how to write effective grant proposals that get results.

In this five week course, you learn:

What kinds of programs can be funded by grants
How to research funding sources
How to find the ones that are right for your organization
How to write winning proposals
How to develop and maintain a relationship with funders.

This is a hands-on course. During class time you have the
opportunity to research funders online in the Antioch computer lab with instructor guidance and you are provided with passwords to several subscription databases.

Develop and write a grant proposal—either real or
hypothetical—and have it critiqued by the instructor and fellow students. Discuss developing and maintaining relationships with funders, ethics, budgets and how current economic conditions affect nonprofits and grants.

Both beginners and experienced grant writers are
welcome. Come prepared with a project for which you would like to write a grant. The nonprofit group you're applying for should be real, but the project can be hypothetical.

Note: Based on feedback Spring 2009 class participants, the schedule has been intentionally re-designed to provide an extra week between class sessions during the latter part of the course. This gives participants time to complete assignments that will be brought to class for feedback.

Instructor:
Goodwin Deacon, Ph.D., is the founder of the Puget Sound Grantwriters Association and continues to be active on its board. She has worked in the grant writing field for 29 years. She has taught grant writing in the University of Washington Fundraising Management Certificate Program and taught at Discover U. for 15 years. She worked on staff for organizations such as Seattle Opera, Seattle University and Children's Hospital Foundation. She has been a freelance grant writer for 15 years.

To register, use the online registration link at the upper right corner of this page or you may register by phone by calling Antioch's Center for Continuing Education office at 206-268-4111 during business hours.

Beyond Grants: Fundamentals of Fundraising
for Nonprofits
Two Monday evenings:
Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, 2010, 7 to 9 p.m.
Tuition: $120 general public; $100 Antioch alumni, staff and faculty; $75 Antioch students

In this four-hour introductory course for lay leaders and nonprofit professionals you gain a bigger-picture perspective on fundraising. Develop skill and comfort in speaking compellingly about your organization's mission and values. Learn to identify, understand and reach individual donors. Find out the secrets to developing and deepening a relationship with your supporters, enabling them to create a meaningful legacy and helping your organization to attain long-term sustainability.

Instructor: Jule Meyer, MSW, is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and is the principal consultant with Parkman Foundation Services. Meyer also holds a certificate in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. She loves helping "connect generous donors with great causes."

Learn to Serve:
Innovative Ways to Sustain Nonprofits

A workshop for nonprofit volunteers and consultants

Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, Noon to 2 p.m.
Antioch University Seattle, Room 100

Workshop fee: $25 for the general public;
free of charge for Antioch students, employees, alumni, and ESC volunteers.

This Learn to Serve session spotlights social innovation and collaboration. With increasing competition for philanthropic dollars, how can nonprofits grow and thrive? Nonprofits are often creating hybrid models for partnering, governance and income generation. The emerging field of Social Innovation highlights how we can help nonprofits integrate the best practices of business for income generation and the best practices of for-profits to generate mission-driven social change. Our September event will introduce basic concepts while our panel of consultants and nonprofit professionals share stories about how to leverage existing community assets, generate ideas and implement new models for sustaining and growing nonprofits.

Panelists:
Shannon Roach, Managing Director, The Vera Project; Tom Everill, President & CEO, Northwest Center; Cheryl Senon, Executive Director, Washington Cash; Iris Lemmer, Founder and Managing Partner, Sound ConneXions.

Moderator: Lucy Garrick, Volunteer, ESC Director of Consultant Education

To register: use the online registration link at the upper right corner of this page or you may register by phone by calling Antioch's Center for Continuing Education office at 206-268-4111 during business hours.

This program is co-sponsored by Executive Service Corps of Washington.

Save the date for the next Learn to Serve workshop: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
"Looking for the Signs: Nonprofit Turnarounds”

Watch this page for more details in the coming weeks.