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Grant Symposium for Nonprofits
Be sure to join your grant seeking peers from throughout the state at Iowa’s
Office of Grant Enterprise Management’s 2nd Annual Iowa Grant Symposium
Wednesday, August 16 at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel
The agenda is filled with information relative to all grant seekers. Some highlights of the agenda include “Nonprofit Oversight and the Iowa Principles and Practices for Charitable Nonprofit Excellence” presented by Sandy Boyd and Richard Koontz, Iowa NonProfit Resource Center, University of Iowa. There will also be workshops on proposal writing and grant seeking.
Concurrent workshops will cover the following:
• Grants.gov: Find, Apply, Succeed
• Do’s and Don’ts of Administering Federal Grants
• Funding for Home and Community
• Enriching Your Public Programs
• Proposal Writing Basics
• Grant Seeking Basics
• Iowa Community Foundations – Capturing the Transfer of Wealth,
Providing Community Support
• How to Begin! A Proactive Approach to Seeking Grants
• Creating a Successful Budget
• Using Hard Data to Build Strong Proposals
There is a $65 registration fee which includes a deluxe continental breakfast,
lunch and afternoon break. On-line registration will be available June 1
at www.iagems.gov. Questions? Contact
Kathy Mabie at kathy.mabie@iowa.gov
or 515-281-8834.

