Enhance Your Grant Writing
Skills with Ease
In 2025, the grant writing landscape has shifted dramatically. It’s no longer enough to rely on the basics or even the convenience of AI-generated content.
To truly succeed, you need to rise above the flood of generic, AI-written proposals and deliver writing that is more strategic, persuasive, and impactful than what AI alone can create.
As a practicing grant writing consultant with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing and nearly a decade of experience teaching grant writing, I’ll equip your audience to master grant writing essentials, harness AI effectively, and create standout, high-quality proposals.
I’ll customize your training to focus on exactly what your audience needs to learn from the topics listed below. By improving your audience's grant writing skills through AI, you'll be able to secure more funding, build stronger connections with funders, and create lasting impact.
Signature Topics
Practical Strategies for Using Generative AI for Grant Writing
Artificial intelligence is reshaping grant writing, but many are using it ineffectively—producing generic, uninspiring proposals that fail to secure funding. This training equips you to use AI the right way, enhancing efficiency and creating standout proposals.
Who Should Attend
This training is ideal for new grant writers or grant writers new to AI.
What Attendees Will Learn
- Strategic Use of AI in Grant Writing: Break complex tasks into manageable steps, from analyzing funding opportunities to crafting compelling narratives and revising for clarity and impact.
- Effective Prompt Creation: Learn how to guide AI tools like ChatGPT with detailed context, examples, and iterative instructions to achieve precise, tailored outputs.
- Practical Applications: Explore AI-driven techniques for summarizing funding announcements, drafting key proposal sections, and conducting research.
- Ethical AI Use: Understand considerations for ethical and effective AI integration into your grant writing workflow.
Session Takeaways
- A clear framework for integrating AI into the grant writing process.
- Practical techniques for using AI to save time without sacrificing quality.
- Confidence in crafting effective AI prompts to generate precise, grant-ready content.
- Ethical considerations to ensure AI enhances proposals responsibly and effectively.
- Tools and resources to streamline the grant writing workflow and boost grant writing success.
Session Features
- Live Instruction with Dr. Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D., CEO
- Recording with Captions (if delivered virtually)
- Comprehensive 90-Page Digital Workbook
- AI Prompt Cheatsheet for Easy Reference
This training offers actionable, step-by-step strategies to transform how you strategize, draft, and edit grant proposals, ensuring you stand out in a competitive funding landscape. Don’t just follow the crowd—leverage AI to lead the way.
New in 2025! Advanced AI Techniques for Grant Seeking: Enhancing Search and Assessment
As grant professionals, we are constantly searching for ways to streamline processes while enhancing the quality of our work. This session will focus on how grantseekers can use AI to critically evaluate grant search results for alignment, feasibility, and potential impact.
Who Should Attend
This training is ideal for more seasoned grant writers who are new to using AI for data processing and analysis.
What Attendees Will Learn
- Assessing Grant Results with AI
Discover how to use AI-driven tools to evaluate grant opportunities beyond surface-level criteria. This includes analyzing the requirements, funding trends, and historical giving patterns of grantmakers to determine their likelihood of funding your proposal. We'll explore how advance reasoning models of AI can summarize grant guidelines, highlight critical details, and flag potential red flags like eligibility issues or misaligned goals based on the real giving data. - AI for Comparative Analysis
Learn how AI can be used to compare multiple grant opportunities side by side, ranking them based on custom criteria such as funding amount, application timeline, and organizational capacity. This approach helps grant seekers prioritize opportunities with the highest ROI potential. - Practical Tools and Demonstrations
See practical demonstrations of how to process grant search results from databases like GrantStation and Instrumentl with AI. We'll explore specific prompts and workflows for improving search results and ensuring that the opportunities chosen are a good fit for the organization's mission.
Session Takeaways
- Actionable strategies for integrating AI into your grantseeking process.
- Practical techniques for analyzing and assessing grant search results.
- Guidance on how to choose tools and approaches that fit the organization's needs, ensuring the audience maximizes the impact of their grantseeking efforts.
Session Features
- Live Instruction with Dr. Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D., CEO
- Recording with Captions (if delivered virtually)
- AI Prompt Cheatsheet for Easy Reference
AI is not here to replace grantseekers but to amplify their expertise, providing insights and efficiencies that free up time for the essential work of building relationships and crafting compelling proposals.
Join this session to learn how to become a more effective and strategic grantseeker with the power of AI.
New in 2025! Advanced Grant Writing: Beyond AI
Take your grant writing skills to the next level with this cutting-edge training that goes beyond the basics of AI-enhanced grant writing.
This session is designed for grant writers who are ready to elevate their overall expertise as writers, compose more refined grant proposals, and position their organizations or consulting businesses for long-term success in a progressively more competitive funding environment.
What Attendees Will Learn
- Learn sophisticated storytelling, research integration, and global structuring techniques for crafting concise, professional, and engaging narratives that resonate with funders.
- From sentence structure to tone and word choice, participants will learn how to manipulate grammar, usage, mechanics, and punctuation to create proposals that are more polished and persuasive than any AI output.
Session Takeaways
- Master the Art of Persuasive Storytelling: Learn how to craft compelling narratives that resonate emotionally and intellectually with funders, making your proposals memorable and impactful.
- Structure Proposals with Precision: Use expert techniques for organizing complex ideas into clear, logical frameworks that effectively communicate your goals and align with funder priorities.
- Integrate Research Seamlessly: Develop skills to incorporate credible data, case studies, and contextual evidence that strengthen your proposals and enhance funder confidence in your work.
- Refine Your Writing Style: Improve sentence structure, tone, and word choice to create professional, polished proposals that are engaging and tailored to specific audiences.
- Elevate Grammar and Mechanics: Manipulate grammar, usage, punctuation, and mechanics to produce error-free and persuasive proposals that outshine any AI-generated content.
- Craft Proposals Funders Love: Leave equipped with the tools to create concise, targeted, and persuasive proposals that build trust and stand out in a crowded grant landscape.
This training will equip attendees to outshine AI-reliant grant writers by mastering techniques that exceed the current capabilities of generative AI.
Session Features
- Live Instruction with Dr. Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D., CEO
- Hands-On Exercises and Group Interaction
- Access to Exclusive Writing Workbooks and Templates
- Recording with Captions (if delivered virtually)
Your Instructors
Dr. Krista Kurlinkus, founder of Grant Writing Made Easy and an experienced grant writing consultant, has an impressive background as a Ph.D. in English-Rhetoric, Composition & Literacy Studies from The Ohio State University. Her nine years in grant writing consulting and education have established her as a nationally recognized expert in the field of grant writing. She is also a GPA-approved and CFRE-pre-approved grant writing trainer.
Through her groundbreaking online courses, Dr. Kurlinkus has revolutionized grant writing education, equipping over 11,000 students across the globe with the skills to effectively articulate their organization's mission and programs, secure crucial funding, and bring their transformative projects to life.
As a sought-after educator and consultant, she continues to be at the forefront of grant writing and technology, equipping aspiring grant writers with the tools they need to succeed.
Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D.
Stephanie Weaver, Ph.D.
Dr. Stephanie Weaver is a grant writing associate, course designer, and instructor with Grant Writing Made Easy. Stephanie has a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from The University of Louisville and has over 10 years of experience teaching writing and rhetoric at the college level, including first-year writing, technical writing, and business writing.
Stephanie is super into figuring out ways to incorporate emerging technologies into new writing strategies for our grant writing clients and then teaching our students how to do the same.
Hear From Our Audiences
"This was one of THE best GPA sessions I've ever heard. Please do more of these. It was really great to have an AI discussion from the perspective of writers and not just tech folks."
"The speakers were terrific qualified, smart, easy to follow, good energy and pace. The
content was also very useful. The way they presented showing videos of exercises
was incredibly smart and useful. This one session made attending the conference
worthwhile. Would love to hear them again and again."
"I appreciated the speakers' deep knowledge. The presentation was streamlined to get the most bang out of the amount of time available."
"This session blew my mind! This could be an all day workshop. It was so helpful to see Chat GPT in action in preparing a grant application. Brilliant presenters."
"This is one of my most favorite GPA breakouts EVER! It covers an emerging technology that we must learn to embrace and wield well in our field. Exceptional!!!"
"I try to make sure I take advantage of any opportunity I get to learn from Dr. Kurlinkus! Again, this session did not disappoint."
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