Impact Storytelling: Grants
One of the oldest arts, storytelling has always had a profound ability to shape our lives and societies. Today, it remains key to connecting with audiences, donors, and the institutions you want to support your work.
Through a series of three virtual workshops with Kyle DeVries, you will learn how to craft core narratives and put them to work to get more grants, grow your social media presence, and cultivate individual donors into a perennial support network.
Facilitated by: Kyle DeVries
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Virtual Workshop
Impact Storytelling: Social Media & Marketing
One of the oldest arts, storytelling has always had a profound ability to shape our lives and societies. Today, it remains key to connecting with audiences, donors, and the institutions you want to support your work.
Through a series of three virtual workshops with Kyle DeVries, you will learn how to craft core narratives and put them to work to get more grants, grow your social media presence, and cultivate individual donors into a perennial support network.
Facilitated by: Kyle DeVries
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Virtual Workshop
CAC Grants, Part 1: Writing a Soaring Grant Narrative
Writing a grant can feel like letting loose an arrow that travels all too slowly to its target. So, how do you write an application to ensure that grant arrow flies true and lands as a bullseye months after you let loose? Writing a grant narrative that soars is key to that success.
Led by facilitator and IAM Coach Kyle DeVries, this generative workshop offers techniques, tips, and tricks that will help you construct a stronger story for your project or organization's application to the upcoming cycle of CAC grants. Expect to do more than learn as we will have some speed-hack work sessions to get your grant language soaring.
Facilitated by: Kyle DeVries
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Virtual Workshop
CAC Grants, Part 2: Storytelling with Numbers
Building Budgets That Work for You
Budgeting for grants can feel really daunting: where do you start? How do you know what to ask for? Where do the numbers come from? In this workshop, we'll treat budgets as a tool to help you truly advocate for your needs and help you think through your own amazing work.
IAM Financial Consultant Jericha Senyak will cover the structure and process of building grant budgets, work with a customizable template, and share plenty of tips and methods for creating budgets that help you genuinely articulate your goals, values, intentions, and imaginings.
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Virtual Workshop
Essential Application Materials:
A Guide to Supporting Documents & Work Samples
This workshop summary, coming soon!
Facilitated by: Susan Mernit
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Virtual Workshop
Impact Storytelling - Individual Donors
One of the oldest arts, storytelling has always had a profound ability to shape our lives and societies. Today, it remains key to connecting with audiences, donors, and the institutions you want to support your work.
Through a series of three virtual workshops with Kyle DeVries, you will learn how to craft core narratives and put them to work to get more grants, grow your social media presence, and cultivate individual donors into a perennial support network.
Facilitated by: Kyle DeVries
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm PST
Virtual Workshop
Taxes for Artists & Independent Producers
This workshop is designed to help you prepare for filing your taxes, with or without the help of a paid preparer. Smith will provide an overview of tax issues affecting artists, including income and expense tracking, business deductions, entity types, and how to handle grant income and fiscal sponsorship.
This workshop is appropriate for artists working in any genre and at any point in their careers.
Facilitated by: Amy Smith
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Virtual Workshop
Running a Fundraising Campaign (Giving Tuesday)
This workshop will discuss the nuts and bolts of running a campaign: the planning process, when and how long to run the campaign, and how to write compelling appeals letters.