Wednesday Webinar
Telling a Story: How to Write a Better Grant
with Dwayne Martineau and Nic Wilson
Wednesday March 20, 2024 6:30pm MST, 7:30pm CST

A free online webinar by CARFAC Alberta and CARFAC Saskatchewan
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Telling a Story: How to Write a Better Grant  features two 25 -30 minute presentations by Dwayne Martineau and Nic Wilson that explain how to tell the right story with the right budget with your next grant.After these two presentations, there will be a thirty-minute Q+A based on your questions. As the webinar is on Zoom, we will unmute the audience so you can ask your own questions. Join us and learn more about how you can tell your story through grant-writing!

About The Webinar: Dwayne Martineau has scored hundreds of grant applications and has studied what makes an application sink or swim. He’s seen good proposals go sour for reasons as small as a hard drive. He will be sharing simple tips and strategies that will help you successfully tell your story to a grants jury, avoid red flags, and keep your application away from the NO pile.

For Nic Wilson, a budget tells a story. It can create confidence in your grant application or it can raise alarm bells. In this session, they will talk about how to present a well balanced grant budget, how to use it once you begin your project, and how to report on your activities, expenses, and financial outcomes. They will discuss the difference between in-kind support, personal contributions, and grant requests with an emphasis on individual artists grants. 

About The Presenters: Dwayne Martineau is an artist, musician, writer and photographer based in Edmonton. Winner of the 2022 Edmonton Visual Arts Prize and recipient of the Edmonton Artists Trust Fund Award in 2017 and 2021. His band The Hearts has performed across Canada, showcased at SXSW (South by Southwest) in Austin, had a #1 record on CKUA Radio, and songs featured on HBO and MTV.

Nic Wilson (they/he) is an artist and writer who was born in the Wolastoqiyik territory known as Fredericton, NB in 1988. They are now based on Treaty Four Land in oskana ka-asastēki/Regina, SK where they earned an MFA from the University of Regina. They have worked as a board member and administrative director with several arts organizations and currently serve as the Chair of the board for Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre. 

Hosts + Moderators:
Chris W. Carson: Executive Director at CARFAC Alberta 
Jera MacPherson: Program & Outreach Director at CARFAC Saskatchewan