iPlume Funding System™: Charities & Nonprofits

Course Details

  • COURSE TYPE

    Asynchronous (learners can complete the course at a time that suits them)

  • LEARNING HOURS

    Approximately 10 hours of self-paced learning. Additional time to develop your own application will vary. This course provides 60 days of access.

  • COURSE AUDIENCE

    Staff, leaders, board members, and grant writers at Canadian charities, nonprofits, and community organizations, from first-time applicants to experienced funding teams.

What's Included

  • Practical Training: Step-by-step learning to help you find, assess, plan, and apply for funding.
  • iPlume Funding Finder™: Discover funding opportunities aligned with your applicant profile and priorities.
  • iPlume Funding Coach™: Get AI-supported guidance to develop ideas, draft responses, and review your work.
  • Funding Workspace™ + Funding Planner™: Keep your information, application content, workplan, and budget organized in tools you can continue updating.
  • iPlume Expert Review: Receive professional feedback on one completed application or practice application before taking your next step.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  1. Identify your charity or nonprofit’s funding priorities, strengths, and readiness.
  2. Find and shortlist funding opportunities using the iPlume Funding Finder™.
  3. Evaluate eligibility, funding fit, assessment criteria, and application requirements.
  4. Develop a project that connects community needs and strengths with activities, outputs, and intended outcomes.
  5. Create a realistic workplan and an activity-based budget.
  6. Draft clear, evidence-based application responses using your organization’s voice and responsible AI-supported guidance.
  7. Review your application for completeness, consistency, and alignment with funder requirements.
  8. Organize submission, reporting, and reusable content for future applications.

Course Topics

  • Funding readiness and priorities
  • Grant prospecting
  • The iPlume Funding Finder™ powered by Fundica
  • Eligibility and strategic fit
  • Funder guidelines and assessment criteria
  • Community needs, strengths, and evidence
  • Project development
  • Outputs, outcomes, and evaluation
  • Workplans
  • Activity-based budgets and eligible costs
  • Responsible AI and the iPlume Funding Coach™
  • Grant application writing
  • Supporting documents
  • Application review and submission
  • Stewardship, reporting, and reusable funding content

Your Complete Funding System

Course page titled "How the System Works". Under the course page title is a graphic with the iPlume Funding System logo in the middle and five titles branching out from the logo: Practical Training, Funding Finder, Expert Review, Funding Workspace, Funding Coach

Funding That Fits

Course page titled "Meet the iPlume Funding Finder". The page includes a link titled "Open iPlume Funding Finder" and text content under the heading "Your Ongoing Access".

Your Ideas to Fundable Projects

Course page titled "BUILT IT | Complete Your Project Builder" with text content under a subheading "Ask the Funding Coach".

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Need Support?

For questions & technical support related to this course, please contact:

funding@iplumewriting.com
Price: $1,499.00
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