*Full participation in the program is applicable for 1.25 GPCI Education points. Scroll down for details.
Each year, New York State’s Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) provides multiple opportunities for state grant funding for capital projects, land acquisition, marketing, housing, town revitalization, canals, health and human services, environmental conservation, and capacity building.
Although only one application is submitted, funding from a variety of state agencies – Empire State Development, Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Agriculture and Markets, Department of State, Energy Research – can be accessed with this one application. The application can be daunting, but we’re here to provide some tips that will help make it more manageable.
While this webinar will not cover the online application process, it will:
- Provide advice about answering questions
- Identify resources for research
- Give tips on making the case for economic impact, a statewide priority for funding
Join CFA grant writing experts Susan Mathisen and Steve Densmore to learn how your organization has the best chance to obtain CFA funds.
SPEAKERS:
Susan Mathisen: President, SAM Fundraising Solutions: Susan has had an extensive
museum career that started at the Morgan Library while she was still in high school. As a textile conservator, she worked at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art, and as a consultant to Villa La Pietra, NYU’s Florentine campus. She learned fundraising and grantwriting during her tenure as Administrative Conservator at the Conservation Center, NYU’s art conservation training program. She has also held grants positions at the American Museum in Britain, Meet the Composer, and the American Academy in Rome.
In 2007, she founded SAM Fundraising Solutions, a consultancy specializing in fundraising for art conservation and historic preservation and assisting European organizations with their “American Friends” groups. Her clients include English Heritage, the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Merchant’s House Museum, the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, the Sing Sing Prison Museum, and The Olana Partnership. She has served on several boards, and is currently a member of the Metropolitan Museum’s Textile Conservation Lab Visiting Committee.
It seems every June and July Susan is writing several NYS Parks Historic Preservation grants. To date, she has won several grants for the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, Bayard Cutting Arboretum, the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History, and the Friends of the Connetquot State Park and Preserve.
Steve Densmore: President and Founder, Choice Words: Steve has spent the last 25 years working as a communications professional. An award-winning writer and journalist. Steve’s career path evolved substantially in 2005 when he began working as a communications consultant for several nonprofit organizations, including the Dyson Foundation and the Walkway Over the Hudson, where he spearheaded public relations and grant writing for the Walkway’s Build A Bridge Capital Campaign.
Steve launched Choice Words in 2010 in response to an increasing call for supportive communications services among Hudson Valley nonprofits. He has served on various boards of directors during his career including the New York Press Association, the Vassar Warner Home of Poughkeepsie, the Barrett Art Center, and the environmental education nonprofit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. He currently serves on the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors.
Schedule:
- 11:45 am: Announcements & Networking
- 12 noon – 1 PM: Program
Cost:
- Non-members: $15
- Members: FREE! Join GPLH today and attend this event for free!
*Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson is a provider of presentations that have been accepted into the GPCI Accepted Education Program.
Full participation in the above outlined presentation is applicable for indicated GPCI Education Points towards acquiring the GPC (Grant Professional Certified) or maintaining the GPC certification.
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