Webinar recorded on 06.26.25.
Description:
Nonprofits today are facing a perfect storm: diminishing government support, intense competition for private dollars, and a likely heightened demand for services.
In this insightful webinar, Alice Ruhnke will provide you with practical strategies for navigating this challenging landscape with confidence and clarity.
This webinar blends partnerships, grant strategy, organizational positioning, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement into one session. You will walk away with actionable tools to build strategic partnerships, strengthen your grant applications, advocate for your causes, better align with private funders, and future-proof your organization against sector-wide funding shifts.
You’ll learn how to:
- uncover your strengths and assets;
- communicate your impact to funders, donors, and partners;
- identify and develop new strategic partnerships; and,
- sharpen your grantseeking strategy to find the best alignment with funders.
Who should attend:
Whether you’re a nonprofit leader, grant professional, or a development director, this session will help you move from scarcity-driven thinking to an empowered, strategic mindset.
After the webinar, you’ll receive:
- slides and handouts; and,
- a link to the webinar recording.
Alice Ruhnke
Alice Ruhnke is the President of GrantStation. Having raised over $45 million from federal, state, and private grantmakers, she knows what it takes to get funded. As a former nonprofit program coordinator and director, and Founder of The Grant Advantage, Alice has a deep understanding of the challenges that nonprofits face. Over the last 20 years she's worked in the trenches with hundreds of nonprofit organizations to improve their capacity to raise funds. Alice is an author and educator with a passion to share her expertise. Her insightful trainings on grant proposal writing and development, community change models, service projects, and measuring outcomes have helped over 4,000 individuals positively impact their communities. Alice earned the Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential in 2025, a distinguished certification that recognizes expertise in grantsmanship through a rigorous, experience-based examination.
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