Grantwriter Development Training

On Friday, August 19th, twenty professionals (selected from 220 applications) from Puerto Rico’s 3rd sector attended the inaugural class of the Competitive Proposal Writing Certification course (Certification en Redacción de Propuestas Competitivas). This 32-hour training program offered 5 hours of live, virtual classroom training and 27 hours of guided study coursework. As the final training event under the ERSF’s Phase Three Capacity Building Catalyst (P3CBC) initiative, the Competitive Grant Writing course was delivered in Spanish by the Continuing Education Department of Ana G. Méndez University to maximize the opportunity to build capacity in this field in Puerto Rico. The course prepared a cohort of fundraising professionals to apply for federal and private funding and to serve as coaches and mentors to other grant writers in the future, thus building the capacity of the 3rd sector to build capacity.

On the final day of the course, following group grant proposal presentations, participants noted how much they valued the coaching and detailed feedback provided by the UAGM Professor.