Huge Turnout for Grant Writing Training
for Illinois Faith Based and Community Groups
HUD's Midwest Region V Director, Joseph Galvan, welcomed some one
hundred participants to the Region's first Grant writing training
for Faith Based and Community Groups, by quoting from President
Bush's State of the Union address, delivered just the night before.
"…It's also important to strengthen our communities by
unleashing the compassion of America's religious institutions. Religious
charities of every creed are doing some of the most vital work in
our country - mentoring children, feeding the hungry, taking
the hand of the lonely. Yet government has often denied social service
grants and contracts to these groups, just because they have a cross
or a Star of David or a crescent on the wall..."
The
purpose of the free two-day training session on January 21 and 22
at the Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago was to provide representatives
of faith and community based groups with Grant proposal writing
Techniques. Topics included, How to access government funds; HUD
programs available to Nonprofits; Organizational structure needed
to secure government funds; HUD Common Factors for Award: The Ten
Commandments of Grant Writing: How to Work with Local Governments;
Organizational Capacity Building and the Importance of Coalition
Building. A major highlight of the training was a step-by-step review
of a successful HUD Grant Application. The training is part of the
approach to "level the playing field" so that community
and faith-based groups will have a better chance of obtaining federal
funds to help carry out their crucial missions.
Check
the Illinois Calendar page for more grant training sessions to be held in
and around Illinois.
A
few scenes from the Chicago training session
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