Seminar: Grant Writing Success!

Tuesday, August 12th 

6.00 PM - 8.00 PM (PDT)

Online via Zoom

This session will be recorded!

Workshop Overview

 Are you ready to level up your grant writing skills? Join us for this online event where you’ll learn all the tips and tricks to secure funding.

Writing a successful grant application can often be a challenge. Funding guidelines priorities can often be challenging to decipher, and with an increasingly competitive grant environment can make success even tougher to achieve. For all those who need some guidance on successful grant writing, this is the workshop for you.

Facilitator MaryAnn Anderson (Little Dog Creative Consulting) will translate what the funder really means in their guideline language, identify ‘red flag’ language to avoid, and go through the best ways to make your application speak directly to what each funder is looking for. The workshop will provide a clear roadmap to creating a successful application – for both first timers and long-time grant recipients. MaryAnn will also be introducing her new project, SmartGrant.ca, a one-stop database of funding opportunities available to arts and culture organizations and artists living and working in BC.

About the Instructor - MaryAnn Anderson

MaryAnn is a consultant & administrator who has worked in the BC arts and cultural community since 1989. A graduate of the University of Toronto’s Arts Administration Program, MaryAnn has worked with a variety of arts and cultural organizations over the course of her career; in addition, she was responsible for the delivery of a municipal granting program for over a decade. MaryAnn is the founder of Little Dog Creative Consulting (2005), assisting hundreds of clients to build their fundraising capacity and grant knowledge. With 20+ years' experience as an arts consultant and professional grant writer, she has written thousands of grants and developed a deep understanding of a wide range of funding programs, providing strategic advice, building grant knowledge and fundraising capacity for over 300 clients (artists and arts organizations). In the course of this work, she has forged successful relationships with funding agencies across the country.

Over her career, Mary Ann has built and disseminated a comprehensive database of arts & cultural grant resources. That work evolved to the founding of SmartGrant.ca (2025), a one-stop source for BC arts grants & funding information, and the only dedicated arts funding resource of its kind in Canada. This comprehensive and easy-to-use online interface, designed for artists and arts & cultural organizations, connects users to hundreds of potential funding sources to match their unique eligibility, creative projects and plans. 

Mary Ann is privileged to live and work on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Squamish people. She is based in Gibsons, British Columbia.