The Heart of America Grant Professionals Association invites you to attend our upcoming membership meetings. All meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every other month from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. unless stated otherwise.
Meetings are free for members.
Upcoming Meeting
April 17, 2024 | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.: How to Become a Federal Grant Reviewer – Learn from a panel of experienced grant reviewers. Topics include how to find opportunities, what the process is like, and more! Virtual meeting: Click Here to Register
June 18, 2024 | Donor Advised Funds with Sarah Forgey, GKCCF. Registration link and additional information coming soon!
August 21, 2024 | GPC with Tiffany Nobles, MPA, GPC Board Member, and CEO of T. Nobles Grant Consulting. Registration link and additional information coming soon!
September 25, 2024 | 2024 Fall Funders Forum – joint program with AFPKC. Registration link and additional information coming soon!
Past Meetings
February 21, 2024:Love your GPA Membership!
October 18, 2023: 2023 Fall Funders Forum – joint program with AFPKC
August 31, 2023: Meeting Funders Face to Face
June 29, 2023: On Second Thought: NEW Ways to Approach OLD Grant Questions
April 27, 2023: Ethics Bingo: Great School and Heart of America Style
February 23, 2023: Pursuing Federal Grants: What to know about the FY23 Budget
December 7, 2022: Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
October 19, 2022: Funders Forum – joint program with AFPKC
August 18, 2022: Beside Ourselves: What Can Grant Pros Learn from Other Career Field?
June 16, 2022: How the Other Half Lives: Experiences of In-House and Consulting Grant Pros
April 21, 2022: Collaboration: The Key to Great Success
February 17, 2022: A Panel Discussion on Leveraging the Benefits of the GPC
December 16, 2021: Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
August 19, 2021: Writing Workshop and Peer Feedback.
April 22, 2021: Being Agile in Your Grant Application Process
February 18, 2021: Using Grant Budgets to Guide Prospecting and Programming
December 17, 2020: Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
October 21, 2020: Funders Roundtable
August 20, 2020: The Nuts and Bolts of Grant Writing
April 16, 2020: Managing Up – Virtual Zoom Meeting
February 20, 2020: Ethics 101
December 12, 2019: Annual Meeting and Holiday Party
October 16, 2019: AFP/GPA Funders Roundtable
August 15, 2019: Grant Management Solutions: Which is Right for You?
June 20, 2019: What Else is there to Sustainability?
April 18, 2019: A Deep Dive into the Federal RFP.
February 21, 2019: Nonprofit Accounting – What the Grant Professional Needs to Know.
December 13, 2018: Annual Meeting
October 18, 2018:The Funders Roundtable, co-sponsored by the Mid-America Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals
August 16, 2018: Evaluation 101
June 15, 2018: Bi-Annual Regional Grants Conference
April 19, 2018: Battle Burnout for Grant Pros (Presented by Thom Fox, Grants Manager – Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas)
February 15, 2018: Where Do I Go From Here? Career Ladders for Grant Professionals (Presented by Susan Whitmore of FirstCallKC, Megan Campbell of Child Abuse Prevention Association, & Theresa Reyes-Cummings, MPA, GPC, of Jackson County Community Health Fund)
December 14, 2017: Annual Meeting
August 17, 2017: Finding and Using Data to Create Strong Proposals
June 15, 2017: Meet the Funders
April 20, 2017: More than Just a Grant Writer
December 15, 2016: Annual Meeting
June 16, 2016: Theory of Change and the Logic Model
April 28th-29th, 2016: Regional Conference 2016 “Fifty Shades of Grants: Grant Writing Down and Dirty”
February 18, 2016: Text! Data! Word Clouds! Infographics! What Funders Think of Graphics in Grants
June 18, 2015: Back to Basics: Crafting the Need Statement
April 23, 2015: Advancement Opportunities for the Grant Professional
February 19, 2015: Lessons Learned from the GPA National Conference,
Scholarship Recipients’ Conference Presentations and Facilitated Small Group Break Out Topics
August 20, 2015: Back to Basics: Facilitated Small Group Break Out Topics and Exchange of Best Practices
October 22, 2015: Funders’ Forum
Many sessions are eligible for continuing education credits (CEUs) from CFRE and https://grantprofessionals.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1626704&group=.