Grants 101: The Five Elements of Every Grant Application

Learn the five core components that every successful grant application relies on, addressing what you want to do, why it matters, and how you will manage the funds.

Every grant application will ask the same five questions, but every application will ask them in different ways. What do you want to do? Why? How? Who will do it? How much will cost?

In this session, you’ll learn how to differentiate between the questions, exactly what information to provide for each, common writing errors to avoid, and how to set up a case statement for your organization. You will leave better equipped to tackle those grant applications!

About the Speakers

Natasha Goldman, PhD, is founder and President of WISSEN, Inc., a firm that secures public and private funding for mission-driven nonprofits, advancing education, workforce development, health, and community well-being. She is a higher education consultant, published scholar, and federal grant winner. Natasha loves helping clients formulate grant projects and strategize their priorities. Among others, she has won NSF, NEH, DOJ, Fulbright, Dept. of Labor, EDA, and foundation awards for her clients. She earned her doctorate from the University of Rochester Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Department of Art and Art History.

Honor Wilkinson, M.St., is Chief Grants Manager. Honor has worked with WISSEN as a grants consultant since 2020 and with its varied clients on successful grant applications to federal opportunities offered by DOE, DOJ, DOL, EDA, NEH, NOAA, and NSF, as well as regional and foundation grants. Born and raised in rural eastern Maine, she received a Master of Studies degree in the History of Art & Visual Culture from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in History of Art & Architecture at Harvard College.