Crafting Compelling Narratives: Strengthening Your Grant Applications

Thursday April 3, 2025
3:30pm-6pm ET

Format: Interactive Workshop (Schedule Below)
Location: The Leynse Studio at Spaces@520 (520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY)
Facilitators/Instructors: Adam Mummery & Erica Wray Barnes of A.R.T./New York with additional special guests to be announced.
Be Prepared To: Bring in a printed sample narrative from a recent grant or missions statement and programming goals

Join A.R.T./New York’s Adam Mummery and Erica Wray Barnes for a hands-on workshop designed to empower grant writers and organizations struggling to secure funding. This session will provide practical strategies to create stronger grantwriting practices for organizations while demonstrating how data can be a powerful ally. This is an opportunity for organizations to partner up and receive immediate feedback on their common grant language. We will round out the session with a moderated conversation with funding partners. Let’s help you take control of your narrative!

Schedule:
Feel free to join us for any portion of the workshop.
3:30pm - 4:30pm: Presentation Portion

• Best Practices in Grantwriting 
• The Basics of Good Grant Writing Doc
• How to Use Anec-data
• Q&A

4:30pm - 4:45pm: Break
4:45pm - 5:15pm: Pair and Share with Attendees

• Attendees bring in mission, vision, values, goals
• Swap papers and give feedback to each other 

5:15pm - 6:00pm: Moderated Conversation with Special Guests

ACCESSIBILITY: 

Key Takeaways from Health and Wealth: Supporting NYC Theatremakers through Data and Insights and Navigating Change: A Panel Discussionwill both be live-streamed and will include ASL interpretation and live CART captioning for both virtual and in-person attendees. 

All portions of the Forum will include

• Live CART Captioning 

• Large print versions of any printed materials and

• Identifiable staff for wayfinding support.

Additional accommodations for all programs are available upon request, including:

• Support Service Provider (SSP)

• ASL Interpretation

• Visual stories

• Audio Description

A.R.T./New York Spaces@520 is fully ADA compliant, including:

• Elevator access to the floor. (Press 3 on the keypad OUTSIDE of the elevator.)

• The building floor is fully wheelchair accessible with no steps.

• All office doors include braille on their signage. 

• One ADA-accessible bathroom.

• A quiet/low sensory space.

We kindly ask that requests for additional accommodations are submitted by Tuesday, March 25, 2025. You may request accommodations directly on the registration form, or by contacting Ashley J. Hicks at [email protected]. We understand that this is not an exhaustive list, so if you have questions or if there is anything else we might be able to provide in order to make our programming accessible to you, we’d love to hear from you.