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Workshop Schedule:

For the description of each workshop below click on the Workshop Number Link. For a PDF Version, click on the following links: Workshop Schedule or Workshop Descriptions.

Thursday, October 18, 2012									Key: B = Beginner • I = Intermediate • A = Advanced
	Collaboration	Consultants	Financial	Grants Office	Management	Professional Development	Proposal			Other
10:15 am - 11:45 am	001 • B I A	002 • B I A	003 • B I A	004 • B I A	005 • B I A	006 • B I A	007 • B I A	008 • B I A	009 • B I A	010 • B I A	011 • B I A
	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group	Special Interest Group
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm	101 • B	102 • B	103 • B	104 • A	105 • B I A	106 • B I A	107 • I A	108 • B	109 • B	110 • B I A
	Norming the Team: Facilitation Tools for Grant Developers Laura Sullivan	Moving from Outputs to Outcomes: Collaborate Program Evaluation Holly Burkett	Raise Funds Faster than Apple Sells Ipads Bridget Brandt	Survey Research: Models of Grants Development Offices Gayla Rawlinson Jeannette Truxillo	Department of Education Phil Maestri	GPA Code of Ethics Bonnie Houk Leslie Mitchell	The New Age of Accountability: Linking Activities to Outcomes and Cost (Part 1 of 2) Gloria Shontz	Writing Your Goals and Objectives Right! Bev Browning	Winning Successfully: Executing Your First Ever NSF Grant Kent Hornberger Melissa Borchardt	Fundraising with Social Media Darian Rodriguez-Heyman
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	201 • B	202 • A	203 • I	204 • B I	205 • I	206 • I A	207 • I A	208 • B	209 • I	210 • B I A	211 • B I A
	School-Based Grant Development Team Denise Pridemore	Grantwriting: Craft or Commodity? Michael Wells	Develop Strong Financial and Reconciliation Grant Practices Kenda DeLeon	Sustaining Your Grant Consulting Business Kimberly Richardson	Inside the Grant Review Process Cheryl Townsel Bernard Turner	Sneaking a Peek at the GPC Exam Johna Rodgers	The New Age of Accountability: Linking Activities to Outcomes and Cost (Part 2 of 2) Gloria Shontz	Win Every Point: Proposal Enhancement Tips & Tricks Sharon Skinner Elizabeth Wilkinson	Do Your Foundation Proposals Pas the "Who Cares" test? Bruce Ripley	Top Ten Fundraising Tips Darian Rodriguez-Heyman	So You Want to Present at the GPA Conference? PG&D Committee

Friday, October 19, 2012								Key: B = Beginner • I = Intermediate • A = Advanced
	Collaboration	Consultants	Financial	Grants Office	Management	Professional Development	Proposal			Other
8:30 am - 10:00 am	301 • A	302 • I A	303 • A	304 • I	305 • B	306 • B	307 • I	308 • B	309 • B	310 • B I A
	Collaboration Crisis? Stop the Grant Synergy Insanity Rosalinda Natividad	Consulting: 4 Winners & Best Practices Linda Butler Karen Cassidy Cheryl Kester Mike Langton	Objective-Based Budgeting Lisa Glickstein	25 Tech Tools to Turbo-Charge Your Grants Office Genevieve Richardson	Top 10 Tactics: What Every Organization Should be doing to Enhance Donor Loyalty Bridget Brandt	Take it to the Next Level: Serving as a Peer Reviewer Ericka Harney	Program Development: Juggling Machetes and Other Basic Evils Johna Rodgers	Just Get to the Point! Creating Reviewer-Friendly Proposals Diane Gedeon-Martin	Advocating For Non-Commissioned Grant Development Services Jason Reed	GrantWriting USA Rod Helm
10:15 am - 11:45 am	401 • I	402 • I	403 • I	404 • B	405 • I	406 • I	407 • B	408 • A	409 • I	410 • I
	Higher Ed Grant Seeking: The MU Grant Writer Network Model Larry Nossaman	Energize Your Consulting Practice Jan Johnson	Understanding the Consolidated Tribal Assistance Solicitation Dan Casion	Personality Theory for the New Paradigm of Grant Development Barbara Norris Coates	Management Best Practices for A-133 Audit Compliance Rodney Jackson Tiffany Davis	Rev Up A Winning Grant Career with Tips and Tricks from the Pros Sharon Skinner Jerry Dillehay	After the Award…What Now? Richard Redfearn	ROI & Grant Proposals: What's Effective in This Economy Tom Ralser	Compression Planning ®: A game-changing planning process Neil Herbkersman	Social Enterprise: The Future of the Nonprofit Sector Bernard Turner
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm	501 • I	502 • I	503 • B	504 • I	505 • B	506 • I A	507 • B	508 • I	509 • I	510 • A
	The Nuts & Bolts of Program Assessment (Part 1 of 2) M Bennet Broner	Transition from Grant Writer to Consultant..Painlessly Scot Scala	Finding & Securing Funding for Health Care Projects Christopher LaPage	Return on Investment (ROI): Why A Grant Office Is Worth It Gary Frye	Real-time Outcome Measurement = Healthy Funder Relationships Bonnie McLain	Grant Professional Competency Review Shelia McCann Amy Jennings	It Takes Planning to Save the World (Part 1 of 2) Joyce Akins	Logic Models: A Grant Writer's #1 Program Planning Tool Andrea Hoff	Proposal Development: Team Building with a Team-of-One Michele Zacks	Building Capacity and Opportunity in Resource-Poor Rural America Heather Stombaugh
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm	601 • I	602 • I	603 • I	604 • I	605 • B	606 • B	607 • B	608 • I	609 • I	610 • I
	The Nuts & Bolts of Program Assessment (Part 2 of 2) M Bennet Broner	Magic!: Transforming Grants Skills into Career Options Linda Butler	The Grant Professional as a Player on the Development Team Larisa Pazmino	Post Award 101: Creating a Successful Post Award Process Becky Heisinger	The Principles of Project Management for the Grant Professional Kent Hornberger	Great Idea! Good Proposal! Wrong Funder? Denied! Marilynn Fauth	It Takes Planning to Save the World (Part 2 of 2) Joyce Akins	Tortured Terminology Barbara Miller	Strategic Grant Writing for Faith Based Organizations Hal Merz	Streamlining Local Grants Management of Federal Awards Adam Roth Jesse Buggs

Saturday, October 20, 2012					Key: B = Beginner • I = Intermediate • A = Advanced
	Collaboration	Grants Office		Management	Proposal		Other
9:30 am - 11:15 am	701 • B I	702 • I	703 • B	704 • I	705 • B	706 • I	707 • I
	When Worlds Collide: A University Collaboration Whitney Gray Linda Alexander	Winning Grants: A Tour of Successful Case Studies Karen Watkins-Watts Diane Gedeon-Martin	2.0 - Grants from the Reviewer's Point of View and How to Become One Gary Frye	One Size Doesn't Fit All When it Comes to Evaluation Marilyn Zlotnik	Writing For Success: How to Craft Your Best Proposal Yet Susannah Mayhall	The Art of Seduction: Making the Reviewers Love You Susan Jordan	Desperado: Beating Burnout Before It's Too Late Johna Rodgers

Workshop Information

Conference Skill Tracks and Special Interest Groups (SIGS): Workshops will identify the skill track and SIG that aligns with the topic of the proposed presentation. Special interest groups include; Advocacy, Arts & Culture, Consultants, Faith-Based, Government, Grant Management, Healthcare, Human Services, Higher Education, International Development, K-12 Education, Law Enforcement, Libraries, Safety, Social Justice and Tribal Nations. Skill tracks include; Proposal Development – Planning, Grant Construction, Grant Management and Reporting, Communication Skills, Professional Ethics, Resource Knowledge/Grant Research, etc.

Professional Levels: GPA offers a number of presentations targeting beginning, intermediate and advanced professionals, are all welcome and encouraged to attend the conference.

GPCI Competencies: To date, there are over 300 GPCs across the country. Many persons are planning to sit for the exam in the near future. GPA and its presenters have given consideration to the eight competencies on the GPC exam to help those with their preparation.

Presentation Lengths: Majority of the GPA workshops are 1½ hours (continuous, with no scheduled break). We do however, have some that are 3 hours (presented as two 1½ hour sessions, morning or afternoon, with ½-hour break).

The average number of session attendees at each workshop at past conferences is around 35.

GPA Conference Proposal Review

The GPA Individual Proposal Review offers you a 45-minute one-to-one session with a grant professional who will evaluate one of your proposals during the 14th Annual GPA Conference. Review sessions offer constructive criticism from a grant professional to a person seeking feedback and critique of a grant proposal. GPA Professionals will review your proposal before the conference, and then offer helpful written and verbal feedback to strengthen your grant writing skills and improve your proposal. Every effort is made to match reviewers and reviewees based on their fields of practice and years of experience. Fees from the Proposal Review service ($25 for members, $75 for non-members) go into a scholarship fund that provides assistance to grant professionals wishing to attend the next GPA Conference.

If you are interested in having your proposal reviewed, please click here.

GPA is seeking volunteer Proposal Reviewers to help with this process. Reviewers must be members of GPA and, therefore, agree to adhere to the GPA Code of Ethics. Reviewers meet minimum qualifications of having actively written grant proposals for a period of five or more years, having submitted more than 50 grant proposals, and having acted as a compensated or volunteer reviewer for a nonprofit or governmental organization within the past three years. Please contact Kelli Romero, Membership Director, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , if you are interested in helping this year.

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