UMaine Hutchinson Center Announces One-Week Certificate Program in Grant Writing
Belfast, Maine — A Grant Writing Certificate Program will be offered Monday through Friday, Oct. 2–6, at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. Nonprofit leaders, executive directors, municipal officials, board members and others interested in creating high-quality grant proposals for their organizations are invited to register. This is an intensive program and participants can expect to walk away with a well-vetted grant proposal.
Course instructor Jack Smith, M.P.A., has a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Maine and over 25 years of experience in the non-profit and public sector. He has taught over 1,500 grant writing programs in his career, and currently teaches grant writing certificate programs at the Hutchinson Center, University of Southern Maine, Emory University, University of Georgia and Austin Center for Nonprofit Studies.
The Grant Writing Program provides an intensive opportunity to acquire the knowledge and practice the skills necessary to succeed in today’s competitive grant writing environment. Participants will proceed step-by-step through the development of a proposal, identifying and evaluating the most appropriate funding sources, researching a problem, and supplying the documentation and statistics necessary for supporting a successful grant proposal.
Participants will earn a University of Maine Certificate in Grant Writing; 3.0 CEUs/30 contact hours are also available. For more information or to register online, visit hutchinsoncenter.umaine.edu. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available.
The Hutchinson Center, an outreach center of the University of Maine, is committed to offering high-quality professional development programs to the greater Midcoast Maine community.
To request an accommodation or for information contact Diana McSorley, 207-338-8093, diana.mcsorley@maine.edu
About the University of Maine:
The University of Maine, founded in Orono in 1865, is the state’s only public research university. It celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2015. UMaine is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast and attracts students from Maine and 49 other states, and 63 countries. It currently enrolls 11,219 total undergraduate and graduate students who can directly participate in groundbreaking research working with world-class scholars. The University of Maine offers 30 doctoral degrees and 80 master’s degrees; more than 90 undergraduate majors and academic programs; and one of the oldest and most prestigious honors programs in the U.S. The university promotes environmental stewardship, with substantial efforts campus-wide aimed at conserving energy, recycling and adhering to green building standards in new construction. For more information about UMaine, visit umaine.edu.