I will confess. I am mostly self taught. But before I began teaching grant writing classes I decided to take a few (two be exact) and I found them to be very helpful. In fact I took what was missing and put those in the classes that I would eventually go on to teach years later.

So am I running a scam? I certainly don’t think so. I have people walking up to me saying “I am doing much better now that I took your class.” In fact, one guy told me “I’ve secured every grant I’ve applied for since taking your class. Before then my success rate was 0%.” Now I’m no idiot, he won’t maintain that success rate or anything near it. But I know what kind of impact I’ve made. There is something to be said for him spending a day or two with me, a guy that that not only routinely secures federal, state and local gov’t grants, but also does pretty with foundation. Oh, am I am foundation and federal grant reviewer. So I’ve got plenty to share with attendees.

Do I offer certificates? No. But my class is endorsed by a local community college after several impromptu observations and they offer continuing education hours to my participants. Mind you, I never asked for that or had it as a goal. I don’t even mention it until the end of the course.

I’d love to post my real name and location, but you seem a little brazen, almost reckless with how you critique your peers, so better safe than sorry..right? lol

In any case, I will give you this: for every good class, there are four really bad ones. Of that four, at least two are facilitated by crooks (people that intend to steal your money).

Irony? I found your blog while searching online for a competitive rate to charge faith based organizations for a half day workshop. lol Talk about stumbling into the wrong bathroom.

In the end it all comes down to old fashion ….work, work and more work.