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Bess and Sophia are thrilled to announce the launch of our new self-paced eLearning course: Collaborative Grantseeking for Library Staff: A Step-by-Step, Practical Course for Creating Fundable Proposals — Now available through the American Library Association (ALA).

Created for professionals across academic, public, and nonprofit organizations, this self-paced course moves beyond grant writing to build your own sustainable collaborative grantseeking program.

You’ll gain proven tools to use immediately — including video lessons, targeted readings, complete funded grant proposals, reusable templates, and activities that translate theory into action.

Hands-on Consulting

includes all the strategies for supporting cooperation and collaboration, as well as building a culture of grantsmanship among professionals and organizations.

  • Assess current grantseeking operations and management activities;
  • Develop plan to improve grant award acquisition;
  • Analyze quality of past grant proposals;
  • Cocreate Master Grant Opportunities Deadline Calendar;
  • Cocreate systems for greater organizational transparency about the grants management activities and management;
  • Offer strategies for strengthening proposal project plans, budgets, partnerships, and all other proposal components;
  • Coach staff in packaging proposals for positive reviewer impact;
  • Coauthor and coedit proposal contents;
  • Assess post award management processes; and,
  • Cocreate plans for improving post award management to maintain relationships with funders.

Collaborative Grantseeking Clients

Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
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