Advanced Grantwriting – Navigating the Maze of Funding Your Project
Track Presenter: Jackie Long
Have you written a successful foundation proposal and are ready for more? Have you applied for state or federal funding and not been successful? Are you hesitant to apply for government funding? Having trouble writing that proposal that is due in October? In this track we will explore in depth the development of a winning proposal from dissecting the RFP, to researching and developing the narrative responses and technical proposal, to preparing a budget and cost proposal that meets both the requirements of the grant funder and the needs of your organization, and avoiding common mistakes that cost the proposal points. We will look at specific state and federal funding sources and explore how these sources can be of benefit to your organization. Bring your grant applications and we’ll discuss how to make them stronger. We will also break down specific types of projects that are relevant to the participating organizations and explore the strategic planning process for developing a successful project. This track will be tailored to the specific needs of the participants as much as possible, so sign up early!
Track Limit: 25
| Jackie Longjoined Strategic Funding Group, Inc., in 2007 as office manager, and that role has developed over time into a full time grant writer and grant administrator. She is a certified Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) administrator, and specializes in the development of housing and community development grant proposals and assisting clients in the implementation of their projects.Jackie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern Kentucky University where she majored in Paralegal Science and was a member of Kappa Delta Tau service sorority. She has 15 years of experience as a paralegal, where she specialized in real estate, collections, probate and estate planning. She also spent several years working in the mortgage banking industry where she worked in various capacities, including assistant vice president for a local bank. She lives in Lexington with her husband, Tad and their 2 Labrador retrievers. She has served on the board of the Friends of the Farmers Market, and currently serves on the boards of the Explorium of Lexington (f/k/a Lexington Children’s Museum) and Jo’s Hope for Kentucky Animals.
Jackie has won over $10 million for SFG clients, but as a native of eastern Kentucky, she takes great pride in winning funding for projects in the region. She has secured over $2 million in funding for a substance abuse treatment center which will provide both short term and long term residential treatment for men and women in the Big Sandy region of Eastern Kentucky, as well as having secured funding for a permanent housing project for persons with developmental disabilities and a transitional housing project for homeless veterans in the Big Sandy region. |
