The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint 2025

The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint: Your Step-By-Step Roadmap and Build-It-Yourself Toolkit for Crafting an A+ Proposal
Enroll ANY TIME! | 8-session self-paced online course

Offered in Partnership with: GrantsMagic U

If you’re ready to invest right now in growing your own grants success, don’t miss this chance to learn grantwriting from a grantmaker – online, at your own pace, AND with your team!

PANO is proud to partner with Maryn Boess and GrantsMagic U to bring you The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint: Your Step-By-Step Roadmap and Build-It-Yourself Toolkit for Crafting an A+ Proposal.

Students from literally every arena of the grants world – every level of experience, every type of nonprofit – have rated this course a five-star experience that has changed the way they think about and practice grantseeking. Click here to see what a do-it-all Executive Director, a devoted board member, a complete grant newbie, a seasoned grants veteran, and an independent grants consultant learned from The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint program.

In this comprehensive, on-your-own-schedule, video-based course from GrantsMagic U, veteran grant writer, grant consultant, and grantmaker Maryn Boess pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to be successful in the grants world. She also shares hundreds of tried-and-tested tools, strategies, how-to's and "insider's tips" to take you to your next level of grants success...no matter where you're starting out.

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Cost:

PANO members: Just $147 with your special members-only $50 discount (requires members-only coupon code on checkout – see details and get the discount code here)

PLUS: With GrantsMagic U’s exclusive Train-Your-Team Special, you can enroll up to 3 additional team members for just $25 each!

Regular Price: $197

Here’s what you get with this Program:

The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint gives you a unique, behind-the-scenes, "VIP" insider's perspective you just won't get anywhere else.

• You'll learn step-by-step how to build a solid, fundable proposal from the inside out and the bottom up.
• You'll work with a unique set of tried-and-tested planning tools, worksheets, roadmaps, checklists, and step-by-step, fill-in-the-blank templates to make your proposals clear, concise, complete, coherent, and compelling.
• You'll learn literally hundreds of "insider's tips" from grantmakers and successful grantseeking organizations that you can put to work for your organization – right away.
• And you'll learn how to organize the details of your work in a way guaranteed to take you to the next level of grantseeking success – no matter where you're starting out!

Your Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint course comes packed with everything you need for success inside the program and beyond, as you continue putting what you learn to work for your nonprofit community.

• As soon as you enroll, you’ll have access to 8 video training sessions of about 2 hours each, that you can view any time, on your own schedule, and as often as you like.
• The video course is carefully sequenced to guide you step by step and section by section through what it takes to build an A+ grant proposal – every single time. 
• You’ll get a detailed session-by-session printable workbook and resource guide to follow along with as you watch the videos…and to keep at your desktop in the months ahead as an at-your-fingertips reference.
• You’ll get nearly 100 planning guides, checklists, and step-by-step, fill-in-the-blank templates to help you capture, organize, and articulate your good thinking – in digital form – that you can save to your own computer and use again…and again…and again…
• You’ll get lots of real-life samples of "what works" (what wins grants) that you can borrow, virtually word for word, for your own projects.

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8-Session Agenda

Each session you'll get access to a new, 2- to 2.5-hour video-based training, plus detailed handouts and resources materials for you to download, print, and save to your computer.

As soon as you enroll, you’ll have FULL access to all your program materials. However, GrantsMagic U recommends you plan to complete no more than one session per week (you’ll get weekly emails to help you pace yourself for success!).

Session 1. Starting Right Where You Are – Right Now

The first week is all about meeting you right where you are – wherever you’re starting out – and getting you ramped up and ready for the journey ahead.

• You’ll start by “packing your travel bag” – getting you grounded in the powerful concepts and paradigms you’ll be exploring – the very big-picture thinking at the heart of The Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint.
• Next, you’ll get your first look at the framework you’ll be working with. You’ll take a high flyover of our “Blueprint” territory and start exploring the key tools, processes, and ideas that will support you on your journey.

Sessions 2-7. Your Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint, Unpacked

These next six sessions take you on a deep dive into each of the key sections of your Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint. Working with the framework laid out in Session 1, you’ll work with checklists, planning tools, formulas, and fill-in-the-blank templates that guide you step by step through exactly how to shape the details that bring your project to life and create a clear, compelling proposal.

• Session 2: The Issue, Need, or Opportunity
• Session 3: Impact Outcomes
• Session 4: Work Plan/Partnership
• Session 5: Evaluation
• Session 6: The Proposal Budget
• Session 7: The Summary/The Credibility Statement

Session 8. Turning Your Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint…into an A+ Proposal

This final session covers how to transform your Ultimate Grant Proposal Blueprint into an A+ proposal that matches the requirements of any given funder. You’ll cover the elements of good writing; what to think about when making formatting decisions; how to “read” an RFP; things to think about when working with an online proposal submission; and much more.

Plus a Whole Lot More!

Based on Maryn’s 35-plus years of experience as a grant professional, and her unique 3D perspective as both a grantseeker and a grantmaker, this program will introduce you to a unique, powerful, success-proven approach to grantsmanship as a mission-centered, strategic organizational process. You'll leave with:

• A deep, practical understanding of what it takes to be a healthy – and successful – grantseeking organization
• A new, powerful way to think about your role in the grants field
• New, powerful strategies for organizing and managing a successful grants effort
• New, powerful tools for winning corporate, foundation, and government dollars to support your organization's work in the world

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About the Trainer:

Maryn Boess

Over her 35+-year career in the nonprofit world, Maryn has been an on-staff program developer and grantwriter; an independent grants consultant; a grants project manager; a grants trainer; a grants reviewer, author, speaker, mentor, and coach; and, yes, starting in 2006 even a grantmaker. GrantsMagic U, launched in fall 2015, is the "virtual academy" she created to make her extensive portfolio of practical and inspiring trainings on successful grantsmanship available (and affordable!) for anyone, anytime, anywhere. See all of GrantsMagic U’s programs here!