The Train-the-Grant Trainer Service is available to experienced grant and fundraising professionals who want to be equipped to deliver grant presentations to GPA Chapters and GPC Study Groups, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions, with an emphasis on geographically under-resourced areas and populations.

Katherine developed this service for professionals who want to build or “borrow” a grant presentation and slide deck from her curriculum and receive a virtual orientation session to the materials and feedback.

A small license fee may be requested from trainers receiving compensation for their presentations. Prerequisites include GPA membership, the Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential, CFRE, or a similar level of experience in the grants and fundraising field.

Katherine presented “Conducting A GPC Exam Study Group: Train the Trainer” webinar for the Grant Professionals Certification Institute to enable GPA Chapter Leaders and GPC Ambassadors to increase the number of free GPC Study Groups.

Here is a description of the Train-the-Grant-Trainer Service from the recipient’s perspective. 

“Katherine provided a Train-the-Grant Trainer orientation session via Skype including a PowerPoint and handouts that prepared me to teach Basic Grant Proposal Writing Workshops. It has been a wonderful experience and a fantastic gift to nonprofits in this corner of Alaska, where in-person professional grant training can be hard to come by. A total of 32 participants attended at two sites of the University of Alaska, including 5 people who drove in from the next town 85 miles away. The most appreciated aspect was the pre-proposal worksheet for program support, as well as having your sample short proposal to review as we walked through the components of a grant proposal. Those documents were invaluable in helping participants to fully grasp the material. I loved how we ended the workshop on a positive note with tips for proposal writing success. I think your curriculum is fantastic, and I am so grateful you allowed me to share it with the nonprofit professionals in my community!”  ~ Heather O’Connor, CFRE, Executive Director, Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic, Homer, Alaska

To apply for T-G-T, please copy and paste the following questions and your responses into the message form on our Contact page.

Train-the-Grant-Trainer Assessment:

1. What is the date __________ and length of time ____ for the presentation(s)?

2. Who is your audience and what do you want them to learn?

3. Briefly describe your grants and presentation experience.

4. Are you interested in ___ borrowing (one-time use) or ___ purchasing (multiple use) the slide deck?

5. Would you like to receive a prep session to walk through the slides and presenter notes?