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This course provides students with the hands-on experience and knowledge they need to successfully begin the planning process for projects in need of grant funding. An approach to grantseeking begins with thinking about why the funding is needed and involving the grant applicant's stakeholders in the planning process.

Take your grant writing expertise to the next level as you learn how to get funding. This course will equip you with the skills you need to research funding sources, create a fundraising plan, and write winning grant proposals.

Sharpen your grant research skills, write the most important sections of grant applications, and learn the types of grants available.

Do you want to know how to interact with anyone, regardless of how difficult you perceive them to be? This course will give you the skills to effectively meet your needs while protecting the dignity and rights of others to form more cooperative relationships.

Learn how to have more successful relationships with difficult bosses, co-workers, students, neighbors, or relatives.

Learn from an experienced grant writer how to research and write winning grant proposals. This course will provide you with a complete understanding of all the components used to determine whether to fund or reject a proposal and how to give your project an edge over others.

Gain a full understanding of the criteria funders use to determine whether your grant proposal gets funded or rejected.

Learn from a national grant consulting veteran how you can use a basic knowledge of grant and proposal writing to become an expert grant consultant. This course will provide easy-to-follow instructions on starting your own grant consulting business and reaching thousands of people with your work.

Expand your writing skills and learn to create copy that achieves business and marketing goals. This course will help you use the power of writing to present a solid, cohesive message to your target audience and improve your chances of getting hired or promoted.

Write great marketing copy to improve your company's image and your chances of getting hired or promoted.

Improve your career prospects by learning how to develop powerful written documents that draw readers in and keep them motivated to continue to the end. This course will help you identify gaps and eliminate problem areas in your writing skills.

If you have a knack for explaining complex subjects in a way that makes them easy to understand, you should consider entering the well-paying field of technical writing. This course will teach you the fundamental techniques that all successful technical writers use.

Learn the skills you need to succeed in the well-paying field of technical writing.

Learn specific techniques to become more assertive in all types of situations, with all types of people, and in all aspects of your life. This course will empower you to be more assertive and includes specific techniques for dealing with people who intimidate or disrespect you.

Find out how you can stop others from intimidating you or treating you poorly.

Gain the ability to create humor, an important skill that can open many doors. This course is filled with opportunities to laugh as you learn how to come up with jokes or witticisms on the fly, punch up dull material for an audience, or entertain friends and even make new ones.

Learn how to use humor to speak more effectively, write better, and increase your popularity.

Develop English grammar skills and take your writing and speaking to the next level. This course explores the eight parts of speech, punctuation and mechanics, foundational sentence construction, phrases, clauses, problem words, common mistakes, and more with practical, hands-on exercises.

In this hands-on course, you will discover proven methods for establishing an internet presence and building a brand identity. You will learn how to use digital marketing for small business growth, specifically how to incorporate search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), advertising, email, social media, and more to develop an effective digital marketing plan even with little money to spend.

In this hands-on course, you will discover proven methods for establishing an internet presence and building a brand identity. You will learn how to use digital marketing for small business growth, specifically how to incorporate search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), advertising, email, social media, and more to develop an effective digital marketing plan even with little money to spend.

Become more confident, make great first impressions, get along with others, and create better personal and professional relationships. This course provides a step by step process to become a great conversationalist as you use communication to build rapport and create trust, warmth, and respect.

Become more confident, make great first impressions, get along with others, and create better personal and professional relationships. This course provides a step by step process to become a great conversationalist as you use communication to build rapport and create trust, warmth, and respect.

Become an effective public speaker by discovering how to talk confidently and persuasively to both large and small groups. This course will help you equip yourself with the skills you need to communicate with ease and authority on the job or in any social setting.

Learn the secrets of effective public speaking and small group communication.

Learn communication skills in order to improve your communication effectiveness.

Learn how to efficiently and effectively conduct research for any writing project: fiction, nonfiction, business, and even term papers and dissertations. This course will help you discover how to identify and access every information source imaginable.

Learn the skills and insights you will need to jump-start your career as a magazine writer. This course will teach you how to get your work published and turn your writing skills into an easy source of extra income.

Learn the essential skills and resources you will need to become a successful and confident copyeditor. This course provides the fundamentals of top-notch editing for both fiction and nonfiction.

If you aspire to be an editor, this course will teach you the fundamentals of top-notch editing for both fiction and nonfiction.

Social media offers a powerful way to reach new customers and grow your business through increased leads and sales. In this social media for business course, you will learn about some of the most popular social media platforms such as—Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Business Profile, Twitter, Pinterest, and many others—and study secrets for using these platforms to promote your business. Throughout the course, you will gain insights into how to build a social media team and automate your social media activities, so you can leverage the power of social media without adding another full-time job to your plate. Lastly, you will gain techniques for measuring and tracking your social media success.

Social media offers a powerful way to reach new customers and grow your business through increased leads and sales. In this social media for business course, you will learn about some of the most popular social media platforms such as—Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Business Profile, Twitter, Pinterest, and many others—and study secrets for using these platforms to promote your business. Throughout the course, you will gain insights into how to build a social media team and automate your social media activities, so you can leverage the power of social media without adding another full-time job to your plate. Lastly, you will gain techniques for measuring and tracking your social media success.

Learn to prepare grant proposals that get solid results for your favorite organization or charity. Over $200 billion annually is available for worthy causes and most people don't know how to prepare the application that will deliver needed funding. Avoid the mistakes that get applications for wonderful projects tossed into the wastebasket. Learn how to write professional proposals that actually succeed.

Learn to prepare grant proposals that get solid results for your favorite organization or charity.

Master the essentials of writing so you can excel at business communications, engage online audiences, and take your creative literary talents to a new level. This course provides you with the writing tools you need for success.

This Grant Writing Suite consists of two separate courses:

• A to Z Grant Writing
• A to Z Grant Writing II: Beyond the Basics

This Grant Writing Suite consists of two separate courses:

• A to Z Grant Writing
• A to Z Grant Writing II: Beyond the Basics

By the end of this certificate program, you will be able to:

- Recognize all forms of technical communications.

- Perform an audience analysis.

- Create effective documentation.

- Apply the appropriate design elements to any form of communication.

- Utilize visual design elements.

- Perform a task analysis.

- Effectively review your content.

- Organize your material.

- Write a style guide.

By the end of this certificate program, you will be able to:

- Recognize all forms of technical communications.

- Perform an audience analysis.

- Create effective documentation.

- Apply the appropriate design elements to any form of communication.

- Utilize visual design elements.

- Perform a task analysis.

- Effectively review your content.

- Organize your material.

- Write a style guide.

This Grant Writing Suite consists of three separate courses:

• A to Z Grant Writing

• Advanced Grant Proposal Writing

• Becoming a Grant Writing Consultant

This Grant Writing Suite consists of three separate courses:

• A to Z Grant Writing

• Advanced Grant Proposal Writing

• Becoming a Grant Writing Consultant