CalACT | California Association for Coordinated Transportation
Representing Small, Rural, & Specialized Transportation Providers Statewide

Grant Writing Workshop
Sacramento
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Paratransit, Inc.
2501 Florin Road
Sacramento, CA
Los Angeles - Registration Closed
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Access Services
707 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Presented by: Margi Ness, CTAA
Maintaining your transit organizations' competitive advantage means you must target and promote your services to numerous sponsors, funders and grant-makers. Learn how to focus this grant and contract seeking process in ways that are efficient, effective and appropriate to your organizations' mission. During this class, participants will actually begin structuring a brief proposal. This class is intended for development officers, senior management, and anyone else who's charged with finding the funds to support a transit activity.
The course outline for this workshop is as follows:
Morning: Finding and cultivating the right grantor; Components
of a grant proposal; Structure and elements of a budget; and Composing a
grant proposal.
Afternoon: Composing a grant proposal (continued); Evaluation
process; Proposal evaluation; and Questions and answers.
Fee: This workshop is free to all participants! Lunch is
on your own.
Class Schedule: Registration is at 8:00 a.m. The workshop
will begin at 8:30 a.m., ending at 5:00 p.m.
RTAP Scholarship money is available for agencies that qualify! Should you have any questions, please contact Meg Desmond at 916-920-8018