This two-part learning series is designed to strengthen the foundational skills and practices in grant writing, program design, and evaluation.  The learning will mirror and will be anchored within the context of funding and evaluation relationship between B3s/nonprofits and funders to improve the effectiveness of funding and evaluation relationships and produce better outcomes for communities served.

Part One – Grant Writing
This aims to strengthen the essential knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to prepare strong grant applications and establish transformative funding relationships with funders that produce better outcomes for communities served.

Part Two – Program Design and Evaluation
This builds on the grant writing and aims to strengthen the foundational knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to design and implement evaluation to tell the impact story and establish transformative evaluation relationships with funders.

After participating, you will be able to:

• Access and use a grant writing resource, and program design, and evaluation guide to support ongoing learning
• Build foundational knowledge, skills, and practices in grant writing, program design, and evaluation 
• Build capacity to prepare strong grant or funding applications 
• Build capacity to conduct evaluation and tell evaluation stories 
• Improve organizational and adaptive capacity 
• Establish and maintain transformative funding and evaluation relationships with funders  

Yonatan Ghebray
Associate Executive Director
Yonatan Ghebray brings a wealth of experience working with B3s/nonprofits, evaluation practitioners, and funders.  He draws lessons from NABC’s partnerships with the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiatives (SBCCI) and Healthy Communities Initiatives (HCI) and designing & implementing evaluation capacity building initiatives. He firmly believes that producing better outcomes for communities is a shared responsibility of B3s/nonprofits, evaluation practitioners, and funders.  

Frontline and middle management staff who are responsible for establishing and maintaining funding relationships; preparing grant applications; designing, implementing, and evaluating programs. 

This learning series combines interactive, experiential, and reflective learning to strengthen foundational knowledge, skills, and practices. A resource for grant writing and a guide for program design and evaluation, filled with concrete examples, will be made available to support the application of learning into organizational practice.  During and after the completion of the learning series, participants can request technical assistance and coaching in real-time to advance their work (e.g., grant writing, program evaluation). 

Learning series will be hosted virtually (Zoom).  Technical assistance and coaching will be offered virtually and in-person depending on location.