About
Our two-day Grant Writing Training, hosted by Nicki Bentley-Colthart from
The Grant Advantage, is intended to help build new capacity for nonprofit organizations. This intensive, hands-on training will help aspiring and experienced grant writers approach grant writing with increased confidence. At the end of the training, participants will understand all the components of a grant application and have a new way of looking at what works in their organization and community.
The workshop will help participants:
- Understand how to find grant opportunities.
- Understand what funders are looking for in grant applications.
- Develop grant proposals that tell a coherent and compelling story.
- Infuse their strengths into proposals to develop strong, competitive applications.
Registration
Stay tuned for the 2025 training dates. Please visit this webpage for updates.
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About the Instructor
Beverly “Nicki” Bentley-Colthart, MSW, owner of
The Grant Advantage, is an experienced grant writer with over 20 years of researching, drafting, and submitting awarded proposals to local, state, and Federal sources. Nicki has a track record of receiving 70% of grant proposals submitted - securing $30 million dollars in grant funding for nonprofits and higher education institutions in West Virginia since 2000.
Ms. Bentley-Colthart holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from West Virginia University. She has honed her grant writing skills over 27 years as a social worker employed in various West Virginia social/human services agencies and as a grant administrator for two institutions of higher education (West Virginia State University and West Virginia Wesleyan College). She has developed and delivered training workshops on grant writing basics, partnership development, budget planning, program evaluation, as well as served as an adjunct instructor at West Virginia Wesleyan College – teaching courses on grant writing and nonprofit management at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Nicki has lived experience not only writing grant proposals, but managing grant awarded projects as a program director. This allows her to provide training with a sensitivity to the needs of an organization’s staff relating to managing, implementing, assessing, and reporting on grant activities after the award is granted.