NonProfit Direct: The NonProfit National Resource Directory has partnered with Grant Central USA to bring you their On-Line Grant Writing Courses. 

" As a long-time writer of grant proposals, I believe that Grant Central USA's standard on-line course is an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, easy-to-follow guide to writing your first grant proposals.", says Marcia Bloomberg, CEO of The Bloomberg Group and founder of NonProfit Direct.  "The other Grant Central USA courses build on this essential base of skill and can move you toward successfully securing foundation, corporate and/or public funding for your organization."

The number of grantmaking U.S. foundations has increased each year since the early 1980s, and the nation’s foundation community is now more than three times larger. (The Foundation Center's Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates, 2010 Edition)

Is your nonprofit organization receiving the grant funding you need to thrive?

In an effort to help nonprofit organizations in their grant writing efforts, Grant Central USA has launched three grant writing online courses which they say, “practically pays for itself.”  Most of today’s grant proposals fail because many grant writers do not follow the directions and make many easy to correct mistakes.  

Grant Central USA offers a free e-course. Grant Central USA also provides an entry level course for only $99 for beginning grant writers..  Their more advance courses, such as their Standard and Deluxe Course go into greater details and depth about grant writing,  helping grant seekers create winning proposals.

“Where can you invest $549 or less than $1,300 and have someone turn around and provide your organization with $25,000?  But when you learn how to write great grant proposals you are able to do just that.  We have had students write their first grant proposal and secure that amount and we have even witnessed others fresh out of the gate who secure funding for 10 times that amount,” says Grant Central USA's officials.

Grant Central USA also conducts in-person grant writing training in cities across the United States, and offers monthly teleseminars for the convenience of their clients. State or federal funding is available, if you know how to go about finding it and writing a grant proposal that stands out from the rest.

Register Now! for one of Grant Central USA's online grantwriting courses. 

Grant Central USA's Basic, Standard, and Deluxe grant writing classes show you how to find, write and submit proposals forall kinds of grants including government grants, education grants and non-profit organization grants, and you can pursue your grant writing training at home and at your own pace.

The grant writing seminars and courses are taught at colleges and universities, and these courses have helped many to advance into grant writing careers.

Grant Central USA offers a variety of content-rich online grant writing courses for you to choose from including:

•     Basic Course
•     Standard Course
•     Deluxe Course
•     Monthly Teleseminars

Grant Central USA's online grant writing course is packed with many helpful grant writing tips, examples, techniques, strategies and articles to help you learn grant writing.

In a report released by the Foundation Center, a record $6.9 billion dollars in grant funding was awarded in 2008 to programs serving the economically disadvantaged in the U.S. While this fact is an encouragement to many in the nonprofit world seeking funds, too many still struggle to obtain grant funding because they simply do not have the tools for successful grant proposal writing. Nonprofits report about the challenge of repeatedly sending in proposals that continually get denied, and they wonder what they are doing wrong.

Professional grant writers and representatives from nonprofit organizations have greatly benefited with dramatic results through Grant Central USA's 3-day grant writing workshops, just like Wendell E. Hall, Deputy Executive Director of Outward Bound Adventure. He said, “Through coaching and specialized classes and instruction...we have had a 70% hit rate in grant application approvals.”

Now, you can create your own success by attending courses right from the comfort and convenience of your home or workplace through Grant Central USA, a foremost provider of one of the only online grant writing courses that is CFRE-accredited.

Clayton M. Christensen, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School states, “People will still go to school buildings, but much of the learning will be offered online, and the role of the teacher in the physical classroom will change over time from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side – to be a mentor, motivator, and coach.”

In a recent report by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 4.6 million students took at least one online course in the fall 2008 term, which was a 17 percent increase from the prior year. The study also found that one in four higher education students now take at least one course online.

Are you wondering what distinguishes Grant Central USA's online grant writing course from all the rest?  Their training is professionally designed and approved for CFRE™ continuing education credits, and it is taught in universities, colleges, and corporations.  It’s packed with templates, samples, and many grant writing tips and techniques to help your grant proposal gain a competitive edge and, most importantly, to get funded.  Their Grant Writing Online Library is loaded with resources to help you write grants quickly and easily without wasting a lot of time.

Effective grant writing skills are vital to organizations that depend on state and government grants to remain solvent and move forward with their goals. The competition for non-profit grants can be intense, and too often individuals charged with writing grant proposals for their organizations are unaware of the proper way to write and submit one.

Whether you are a beginning, intermediate or advanced grant writer, Grant Central USA can help you to write grants quickly, easily and more effectively through insiders' tips and strategies learned in their award-winning online courses.

But where to find grants to fund your organization?  Grant Central USA's courses have helped hundreds  learn the most effective ways to get funded. Through their Basic, Standard and Deluxe Courses students can learn the art of effective grant writing in great detail, including:

• Current Trends In Grant Writing
• How to Research Organizations and approach Funders the Correct Way
• Provide Funders with what they are really looking for
• Discover how to develop a great Needs Statement and show Funders what your outcomes will be with great goals and objectives
• How to describe your organization, its history, and programs with flair
• Create budgets that are easy to understand
• Learn how to incorporate evaluations into your grant proposal
• Craft cover letters that get noticed

Tour Grant Central USA's on-line grant writing site and see  what others are saying about the programs. Afterwards, you can sign up for a Free E-Course (click the Grant Writing Online Course banner ) which will be delivered to you immediately and includes a Grant Writing Starter's Kit. You will be able to see for yourself why Grant Central USA's on-line grant writing courses can help your organization thrive.