How to Get M.O.R.E from your Asks (Six-Part Series)

About this event

How to get M.O.R.E from your asks

Motivating messages
Optimizing your brand
Remarkable results
Emphasized expertise

Too often we are in such a rush to get our message out on all our media platforms we don't take time to make sure we are stragegizing our content for MAXIMUM IMPACT on potential supporters and donors.

This roll-up-your-sleeves workshop will show you how to make your LOIs, proposal, direct requests, messaging, presentations and pitches more FUNDABLE and more COMPETITIVE using tricks from a lot of trades: screenwriting, digital arts, journalism, marketing, amusement parks, speaking engagements and advertising.

About the Workshop

• Six 3-1/2 hour weekly workshops (Six consecutive Fridays from 9 - 12:30 p.m.):
  January 31
  February 7
  February 14
  February 21
  February 28
  March 6 – Final Session: Pitch your message to actual funders*!
  (*Giving officers will provide constructive feedback only - not a direct funding opportunity/appeal.)
  
• No homework! Do your work here!
• One-to-one strategy meeting with facilitator for each participant

About Jonathan O'Brien

• "Six out of five stars! Exceeded expectations! Hilarious! Soars light years beyond the business as usual approach!"
• As part of a team, or individually, has won nearly one billion dollars in competitive grants
• Previously facilitated The ABCs of LOIs & From Final Draft to Funding
• Author of "Right Before You Write"

Start the new year off right - get M.OR.E!

More funding!

More publicity!

More likes!

More sponsors!

More support!

More competitive!

More credibility!

Faculty

Jonathan O'Brien, Th.D.

A successful program designer/grant writer for the past 15 years, Jonathan O’Brien’s offbeat, humorous approach incorporates his experiences as a network TV executive, professional screenwriter, creator/co-host of NPR’s Beyond Words and college screenwriting teacher. As part of writing teams or thorugh his own company, he has won more than $850 million in competitive grants.

Jon is a UCLA film school graduate, a former network program executive, a former juvenile hall writing instructor, and currently an ever-popular adjunct screenwriting instructor at Santa Barbara City College.

Jon has combined 35 years of diverse creative experiences with his passion for teaching to create his groundbreaking program design method. One of his educational program designs is permanently enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution. Two of the charter schools he helped to create are in the top 20 Charter Schools in the nation.

He is also the author of RIGHT BEFORE YOU WRITE: The Groundbreaking Planning Process Used to Win More Than $385 Million in Competitive Grant Awards. RIGHT BEFORE YOU WRITE has won six national book awards and was called by one reviewer, “the funniest book about writing I’ve ever read, and the most serious!”