Grant Proposal Writing Basics

The L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library will host a free workshop on grantseeking basics for nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, July 7 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  Workshop location: Banbury Place, 800 Wisconsin Street, Eau Claire.  In the Eau Claire Conference Room on the third floor of Building 2. 

The Proposal Writing Basics session will be led by Kief Schladweiler, Coordinator of Cooperating Collections with the Foundation Center (http://foundationcenter.org).  The workshop will provide an overview of the proposal writing process for nonprofit organizations seeking grants from foundations, corporations and grantmaking public charities.  Mr. Schladweiler will offer tips on how best to identify funding sources for your organization, highlighting the electronic and print resources available for your free use at the L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center.  The workshop will include a demonstration of the Foundation Directory Online, the Foundation Center's top-tier searchable database providing information on nearly 100,000 grantmakers and more than 2 million grant records, and will also provide an overview of the free resources on the Foundation Center's website.

Kief Schladweiler has been the Foundation Center's Coordinator of Cooperating Collections since 2005.  Prior to that he served as the Center's online librarian for several years.  He joined the Foundation Center in 1999 after working as a reference library for The New York Public Library.  He received his M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Registration is filled but you can get on a waiting list.  Openings may occur.  Contact Information & Reference at 715-839-5004 or e-mail librarian@eauclaire.lib.wi.us.