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FOR RELEASE: July 16, 2008

For More information contact:
Kim Sears, Marketing and Public Relations
Wyoming Business Council
Office: 307.777.2834
Email: kim.sears@wybusiness.org

Grant writing training helps communities address priority needs

CHEYENNE – The comprehensive grant writing training Get That Grant: Grant Writing from Conception to Completion will be held at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Oct. 6-9, 2008.

The registration deadline for the workshop is Sept. 12, 2008.

The program is presented by Community Systems of Bozeman, Mont., and is conducted by Dr. Barbara C. Bader and Steven Carr. The workshop is sponsored by the Wyoming Rural Development Council.

The workshop addresses all aspects of successful grant seeking including developing and assessing proposal ideas, generating support for grant applications, designing and writing exemplary grant proposals, editing and submitting grant proposals, and surviving the proposal review process. Special attention is given to technical components of grant proposals that are closely reviewed by funders.

The workshop emphasizes identifying new sources of government, foundation, corporate, and other grant support, conducting a productive funding search, and effectively querying high-priority grant funders. Techniques for developing an organization’s grants infrastructure and for organizing the grant seeking effort are stressed.
Workshop participants will receive a Community Systems grant writing training/resource manual, and extensive individual consultation during the workshop as well as a follow-up critique of their grant proposals.

For more information on the training or to register for the workshop, contact the Wyoming Rural Development Council in Cheyenne at 307 -777-5812.

The Wyoming Rural Development Council (WRDC) is part of the Wyoming Business Council. The WRDC is a collaborative partnership that serves as a forum to address a full range of issues, opportunities and potential solutions in the rural communities of Wyoming. For more information on the WRDC, please visit http://www.wyomingrural.org/.

The mission of the Wyoming Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. For more information on the Business Council, please visit www.wyomingbusiness.org.

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