Designing an Advanced Grants Strategy 300 Note: You can also buy or rent each individual class of Course 300

This is part 1 of a 3-part lesson on how to develop a grants influence strategy that will work in parallel to your grants strategy. Each lesson provides invaluable hints and recommendations for becoming a strong organization in grants acquisition. Take all 3 lessons and get started on developing your own footprint and acquiring more grants!

This lesson takes a deep dive into how you identify the key influencers in your organization. It also examines the external and internal drivers that impact your influence strategy.

In this lesson, we will be exploring the basic principles in developing an influence strategy. There are huge benefits from aligning an influence strategy alongside your grants strategy but you need to be very targeted in these investments and keep a long-term horizon in mind. Everything in grants is about getting your house in order in order to be ready for lift-off and consistent growth.

The Grants House introduces a unique way of doing an assessment of your organization to determine where you are on your grants journey - and - where you want to be. There's no need to hire expensive consultants for this task. The GH teaches you how to conduct this yourself, step-by-step.

In this continuing lesson on Grants Journey Mapping, we will explore the phases of the Grants cycle and Journey Stages that will lead help understand where your organization is in terms of Grants Acquisition and the various issues to be aware of when you are preparing to design your Grants Strategy. Taking Grants Journey Mapping Part 1 is recommended.

Creating a Value-Add Proposition (VAP) is one of the most important aspects of raising your grants acquisition strategy. In this lesson, we talk about why it is important and the steps you take to create your own VAP, which will showcase your point of difference and will give you a competitive edge over the competition!

This lesson starts by building on your value-add proposition by examining how you can strengthen your grants culture by incorporating the right language and messaging throughout the organization. Then, the lesson examines where your comfort zone or desired state is for Grants Acquisition. You will learn how to map out your grants micro-environments in 4 grants quadrants, and discover where you should be investing your resources to get the best traction at the start. Grants acquisition is a gradual process and you will want to know where to start and then, where to start growing aggressively in order to build a sustainable grants strategy. This lesson will get you started in investing in the right places - and start attracting new revenue - now!

Every organization's journey starts at a different place. However, each seeks a growth strategy to increase and diversify revenue. Join us in this lesson to explore what those micro-environments are and how you can decide what expansion (for growth) is right for you and your organization.

No one wants to go over to their Finance Chief and over-commit on acquiring revenue. Grants are highly unpredictable and risky for most agencies but we don't want to leave those targets hanging as 'gravy' or 1-off opportunities for the organization. In this lesson, we explore a tried and tested method for integrating a 3-year grants revenue target into your general ledger, that is low-risk and brings the whole organization together as a single grants acquiring engine. Best of all - we're giving away up to $50 in templates (FREE) to help you do this, if you have ordered Course #3.

After all is said and done as you get your grants systems and procedures in order - What does Success Look Like? In this lesson, we are going to look at Process Maturity Mapping and identify where you are in your journey of setting up a robust Grants Strategy. We will also examine Lean Sigma 6, a project management methodology that is collaborative and can help you improve performance and efficiencies.