We partnered with the National Association of Interpretation (NAI) to host a special, 3-part workshop series to help kickstart any budding grant-seekers and grant-writers out there. Many of the 15 participants took advantage of the 1:1 mentoring session with Mary or Mandy to discuss their particular organization's needs and goals related to grant strategy, seeking, and writing. 

Together, we learned about the biggest grant questions on interpreters minds, the cool things happening around the country, and discovered dozens of new funders that might match specific types of projects. We also explored a variety of platforms to search for grants and talked about how AI might be able to support fundraising.

Feedback from the Grants 101 cohort suggests that time learning about grants with experts and the templates we provide during the training were the most useful aspect of the program.

While we highly value collaboration and strive to build supportive communities of practice through their mentoring and training programs, we're still trying to figure out how to foster that long-term supportive atmosphere withing our more abbreviated trainings. If anyone has any ideas along those lines... please reach out to us.

As for our participants - we're wishing you the best of luck in your grant and project pursuits - and we hope you share your journey with us so we can support and celebrate you along the way.!!