Slideshow for the workshop delivered in Durango, CO on 4/17/17.

1. How to Write a Project
Narrative People Care
About

2. Why are you here?
Write a brief
description of one of
your organization's
projects.
Crumple up your paper.
Don’t eat it.

3. Our Objective:
Identify key
components of a
compelling project
narrative and use a
storyboard to
organize those
components.

4. How we’ll get there:
Key Steps-
1. Why a storyboard?
2. Position your focus
population as the hero.
3. Create an ‘Avatar’.
4. Identify key data.
5. Breakdown the logic of
inputs & outputs.
Palate Cleansers-
Google Keep (Notes)
Canva (Graphic Design)
Zotero (Citation Management)
Library Resources (Data Searches)
Keep in Mind-
This is a workshop.
You are an expert.

5. About me:
Creator of Grantiply.
Consultant & grant writer
for small-medium
nonprofits.
Grant writing & project
development in
education.
Owner of residential

6. Why a storyboard?
Build one really good wheel,
then improve it.
Continuity planning.
What are funders investing
in?
Word Count (Mic drop).

7. A Hero’s Transformation:
Your focus population is the
hero.
What does that make
you?
Passive vs. Active
Systemic change
Why is the cyclical nature
important?

8. A Hero’s Profile:
Your avatar has this need AND
they’ve tried this other solution,
BUT that solution did not
completely address their need,
THEREFORE your project can
make a difference.

9. Data Questions:
The difference between the
good and the great is data.
Discussion:
Why is finding and using data
so tough?
What tools do we have?
How can we make it easier?

10. Logic Model:
“Well, it makes sense in my
head...:”
The collaborative power of a
logic model.
Find the illogical leaps.

11. Storyboard:
This is one model. How
would you modify yours?

12. For More:
www.grantiply.com/sbdc