Getting meaningful feedback on your proposals from grantmakers can be frustrating.
How do you get it? How do you make sense of it? And what do you do with it?
The two-word answer? It depends… on the grantmaking organization, on what happens in the grants decision-making process, and on how you ask!
In this session, veteran grantmaker Maryn Boess puts on her grantmaker hat and shares some straight talk about asking for, getting, and making sense of funder feedback.
We’ll start by building the bigger context for understanding funder feedback with a behind-the-scenes tour “Inside the Grantmakers Black Box” as your proposal makes its way through the review and decision-making process.
We’ll bust three big myths about how grants decisions are made. Sneak peek: “It’s a competitive process.” (It isn’t.) “It’s an objective process.” (It isn’t.) “An A+ proposal should beat a B- proposal, every time.” (Nope!)
We’ll talk about the three biggest mistakes people make when it comes to getting feedback on their proposals—and the lessons you can learn from them.
You’ll learn the RIGHT question to ask for feedback—in the RIGHT way—to get results you can use. And you’ll have lots of time to bring your own questions, challenges, and experiences into the conversation during our live Q&A.
Come with an open mind, and be ready for inspiration as well as great takeaways you and your team can put to work right away!
Testimonials from past participants:
Mind. Officially. Blown. I’ve been a grantwriter for 15 years and thought I knew how grant decisions are made. Wrong! Maryn’s insider walk-through and examples just blew my mind and cleared up so many assumptions and wrong notions. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-Jason Faust
Hundreds of gems and takeaways in this very engaging course, and thanks a million for all of them. But the biggest for me personally is I now have an expert, honest, upbeat answer to the awful question when my executive director asks, “Why didn’t we get the grant?” – LOL!
-Mary Lou Miller
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Maryn Boess
Over her 25+-year nonprofit career, Maryn Boess has been an on-staff grantwriter; a grants consultant (winning $42 million for her clients over ten years); a grants trainer; a grants reviewer, author, speaker, mentor and coach; and – since 2006 - even a grantmaker. This 3-D background brings a unique insider's perspective to the practical, inspiring trainings on healthy, successful grantsmanship she shares with thousands of people each year through GrantsMagic U. A true dual-citizen of the grants world, Maryn may be the only person holding membership in both Grant Professionals Association (for grantseekers) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (for grantmakers).
