APRIL 2019: What’s YOUR Story?

How to Leave a Lasting Impression on Your Program Officer

Everyone loves a good story, and program officers are no different. With hundreds of organizations pitching their ideas and proposals, how can you make your organization’s story stand out? By giving them a story that will stick with them long after they have read your proposal.

Grant Professional Certification (GPC) Competencies covered in this session:

Competency #4: Knowledge of how to craft, construct and submit an effective grant application

5. Identify appropriate, sequential, consistent and logical presentations of grant-narrative elements and ideas among or within proposal components.

6. Identify proposal-writing approaches, styles, tones, and formats appropriate for proposing organizations and various audiences. 

Presenter 

Kelly O’Connor Kay is Executive Director of Maternal Mental Health NOW and oversees the programmatic, fundraising and marketing operations. Her goal is to ensure that all of Los Angeles County’s new families have the resources they need to address maternal mental health disorders so that they can grow and thrive. Kay previously served as Maternal Mental Health NOW’s Development Director for seven years. Before joining Maternal Mental Health NOW’s team (which coincidentally corresponded with her own transition to motherhood), Kay worked for a number of nonprofit organizations in the human services and environmental fields in the US and the UK as a freelance fundraising consultant and staff member. Kay is a graduate of Northwestern University, having received a BS in Communication Studies & Sociology. She also holds an MS in Elementary Education from Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York.