Grant and Accessible Funding for Local Marriage Efforts
We Care America National Grant Center
David Mills, MA, MPA

Pay for just one day, $125 with a conference registration or $180
without the conference, and attend the second day free.

Build practical funding and grant skills that will enable you to secure
new resources for local marriage efforts.  Funding local marriage efforts
may seem illusive, but this interactive institute will provide training and
tools that will expand your efforts through grants and other funding
approaches.  This interactive seminar provided by the We Care America
National Grant Center will include updates on funding at both the local
and national levels as well as skills that will enhance your ability to win
what you go after. David Mills has broad experience in both local and
national grant development and has been successful in developing grants
to fund Community Marriage Initiatives.

What you'll learn:
- Skills designed to support the development of diversified funding in
marriage ministries.
- Strategies to overcome the challenges that local marriage efforts face when
they seek to expand services into the community.
- Ten funding approaches and skills and specific opportunities for funding,
including:

-  Core Communication for Funding Results
-  The Most Accessible Funds for Marriage Efforts
-  Strategic Language
-  Preparation for Funding Success
-  Matching the Mind of the Funder

Those who have taken  this training have said "this is the best grant
training I have ever attended."  Even veterans rank this training as "the most benefit for the time invested."
You will be amazed how much progress you can make in this 15-hour institute.

The training is the pre-requisite for participation in the week-long
Marriage Ministry Grant Clinic’s that WCA holds each year, where organizations
substantially complete the language for specific grant applications.  The work
that begins in this workshop will provide a track on which your organization can run
toward successful funding.

Participants will each receive a Training Manual and other support materials.

The Link below will take you to a brief survey and free weekly funding update,
and link to the We Care America website.

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?L222JNTH57595SA61A16HLYP

Or, for information, call Kristen Appleby at 703-554-8620.

We Care America...
We are a national network of individuals, churches and ministries that are
working together to meet the needs of the poor and hurting by building capacity
among faith-based organizations.

The We Care America National Grant Center
A service of WCA, the NGC links organizations who are providing important
compassionate services with new resources through training, direct services
and a national network of professional grant writers.

David Mills, MA, MPA
David Mills is committed to the critical role that Faith Based Organizations (FBOs)
play in meeting critical needs across our nation.   With a personal understanding
of the faith community and with skills developed through practical experience
linking FBOs with community needs, David has developed systems for engaging
FBOs in collaboration across traditional boundaries while retaining their mission
and values.  Since the first round of national welfare reform, he has successfully
developed funding that has engaged more than 120 FBOs into new levels of
community service through mentoring, prevention, premarital training and child care
helping more than 30,000 families.  This research-based program matched with
appropriate funding resulted in the naming of his mentoring program as a Promising
Practice by the USC Center on Religion and Civic Culture.   His efforts include
participation in the local TANF management team, the creation of TANF funded
marriage services.  David holds two Master’s Degrees, one in Counseling and
another in Public Administration.  David has served as both a Senior Pastor and
as the Executive Director of a non-profit organization.  He has provided grant training
at the university level for more than three years. Currently, David is the Director of the
We Care America National Grant Cener, which works to build the capacity of FBOs
through training, mentoring and resource identification.  His personal knowledge
of a broad variety of funding mechanisms includes federal, state, local, government
and private resources, and his skills as a professional trainer will result in a high impact
presentation that will yield practical action for local marriage initiatives.

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