Build Grant Confidence

Grant writing is a learnable skill—and you don’t have to figure it out alone. If you’re ready to trade guesswork for clarity and build a grant strategy that actually fits your organization, we’d love to have you in Grants 101.

  • How to become grant-ready by clarifying your programs, organizing core materials, and building systems you can reuse for every application.

  • How to align grants with your mission and capacity so you pursue the right opportunities—not every opportunity—and avoid burnout or mission drift.

  • How to approach grants as a long-term strategy by collecting meaningful data, building funder trust, and creating a realistic application cadence you can sustain.

About Your Instructors

Aly Sanchez

Director of Strategy and Organizational Development

Aly Sanchez, Director of Strategy and Organizational Development for The Grant Plant, has more than two decades of grant writing experience including planning, proposal preparation, and reporting for complex private, state, and federal awards. In addition to direct grant development, she specializes in proposal strategy, project design, and staff and organizational development for The Grant Plant. Aly also leads the company’s capacity-building services, in which she develops learning materials, workshops, and trainings. Aly has completed UNM Evaluation Lab’s Evaluation Summer Institute and is trained and experienced in Results Based Accountability (RBA). Aly holds a BA in Psychology and an MBA focused on executive leadership.

Laurel Meister Schmuck

Senior Resource Development Officer

Laurel crafts competitive funding proposals, manages client portfolios, and helps grow local grant-seeking capacity. Prior to joining The Grant Plant in 2020, she served as the Development Manager for Explora Children’s Museum, helping secure important grant funding and individual donations. She is a graduate of the 2024 Leadership Albuquerque class, a graduate of Pivotal’s grant writing Talent Academy, and served as a 2016 Fulbright Teaching Assistant in Weimar, Germany. With a BA in English from Trinity University, Laurel is passionate about language and the craft of writing.

GPCI Approved!

The Grant Plant is a provider of training sessions that have been accepted in the GPCI Accepted Education Program. Full participation in the above outlined presentation is applicable for 3 GPCI Education Points towards acquiring the GPC (Grant Professional Certification) or in maintaining the GPC certification.

In Albuquerque?

You may be eligible to attend for free!

Our partnership with Job Training Albuquerque means your organization may qualify for free tuition.
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