Grant Training & Workshops
What Sessions Include
Built for your audience: your organization's situation, your sector, your questions — not a canned slide deck.
Materials your team keeps: workbooks, templates, checklists, and reference guides drawn from our actual practice.
Real examples: what funded applications look like, what findings look like — and the difference.
One flat fee: quoted for your group, agreed in writing, travel included.
Why Train with a Working Practitioner?
This isn't training-company material. Every session is taught by the principal, from the same files, systems, and judgment calls used in our active practice — the practice behind more than $25 million in awards for rural organizations and a 19-year record of zero grant-related audit findings for clients under our administration. Your team learns what actually works, from someone who does it every week.
"The McLeod Group has helped my organization secure grants from small to large. We have worked together now for several years and his expertise in grant writing is exceptional. The best part of all is that Mr. [McLeod] knows our hospital well and has a local presence. It is nice to have a consultant who is proactive and brings me opportunities that I never know are available. You cannot go wrong when The McLeod Group is a part of your team!"
Rod Landrum, Executive Director, Labette Health Foundation (retired)
"We have had a great deal of success in working with Nick [McLeod] on grants . . . focused on improving lives in SEK and Kansas."
Brian Williams, CEO,
Labette Health
"The Pratt Health Foundation has retained the grant writing and administrative services of the McLeod consulting group. The principal, Nick [McLeod], understands the private and federal grant landscape as well as providing wise administrative assistance. He has written successful grant applications and provided excellent counsel for the Foundation. I would highly recommend his services."
DeWayne Bryan, Executive Director,
Pratt Health Foundation (retired)
"I have worked with Nick on three different grant proposals regarding Integrated Care through embedding a behaviorist into a primary care facility. Through Nick's effort and skill, we were successful in receiving a planning grant, an implementation grant, and a continuation grant. Nick is very thorough, thinks of great questions, anticipates questions from grant sources, writes skillfully, and is a pleasure to work with. I would recommend him and his services to anyone."
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Matthew Atteberry,
Executive Director,
Labette Center for Mental Health Services
"Since having The McLeod Group come on board with us, the Pratt Police Department has received over $175,000 in funds from grants that Nick has found for us! The Pratt Police Department and the citizens of Pratt, KS are very fortunate to be able to have the McLeod Group helping the efforts of keeping this great community safe!"
Chief Nate Humble,
Pratt Police Department
(retired)
"Mr. [McLeod] put my vision for my school into a professional proposal from A to Z, no detail was left to chance. After multiple attempts on my own, Mr. [McLeod] was successful the first time in obtaining a $400,000 grant for my school, the largest to be awarded in our county to date."
Mikel Ward, Principal,
Service Valley Charter Academy (retired)
Testimonials
How Fees Are Structured
Every service carries one clear structure — quoted up front, agreed in writing, and priced with rural budgets in mind. Grant fees are never a percentage of your award, and you'll know exactly what an engagement costs before any work begins. The full breakdown, service by service, is one click away.
The Sessions
AI-Augmented Grant Development. The tools have changed the work — and most organizations are getting the change wrong in one of two directions: ignoring it, or trusting it blindly. This session teaches the middle path we practice ourselves: where AI genuinely accelerates grant development, where it will quietly hurt you — fabricated citations, compliance drift, confidentiality exposure, funder AI policies — and the guardrails that let your team work faster without new risk. Practical, hands-on, and honest about what the tools can and cannot replace.
Grants Foundations for Rural Organizations. How funding actually works — and why so many applications fail before a word is written. Project-first development, the case for need, budgets that survive scrutiny, how funders think, and where organizations most often go wrong. The session we wish every rural board and leadership team had sat through.
Grant Management & Compliance. The training we've delivered for years alongside real awards: the layered compliance stack from 2 CFR 200 down to your specific RFA, procurement done right, documentation and records systems, the checks and balances that surface errors early, and what audit-readiness actually looks like in a rural organization's files.
Governance & Board Topics. Funding strategy, grants oversight, campaign readiness, foundation governance — the board-education sessions described on our Strategy & Advisory page, available in any format here.
Choose a Mix. Want multiple topics delivered? We can customize your training session, just ask.
Book a Free Consultation
Since 2007
The first conversation is free — and it's an honest one. Bring your objectives, your questions, or the project you've been trying to fund. If we don't believe it's a go, we'll tell you right there — no engagement, no pressure, no charge. And if it is, we'll tell you exactly how we'd help.
Two decades of funded-project experience. Delivered to your whole team in a day.
Some organizations hire us to do the work. Others want to build the skill in-house — and for them, we bring the practice to you: intensive, practical training built from real funded applications, real compliance files, and real funder relationships. Your location or a host venue. Everyone leaves with materials they keep.
And there's never been a more important moment for it. AI has changed grant and funding work faster than any development in decades — and most rural organizations have no one to teach them how to use it well, or honestly about where it will hurt them. We use these tools in our own practice every week, inside real compliance constraints, which is exactly why we can teach the responsible middle path: faster work, no new risk. If your organization or association books one training this year, make it that one.
Who Hosts Us: rural hospitals and health systems · nonprofits and community organizations · hospital and professional associations · coalitions and councils · community foundations · local governments. Association- and coalition-hosted sessions let many member organizations train at once — often the most cost-effective way to bring us in.
Formats That Fit How Groups Actually Meet:
Full-day intensive: the deep version — a working session with exercises, real documents, and time to apply it to your organization.
Half-day workshop: the focused version — one topic, thoroughly covered.
Organization training series: multiple sessions over time, building your team's capability layer by layer.
Board-meeting briefings: shorter governance-audience sessions, sized for a board meeting or retreat.
Conference sessions & keynotes: breakouts and features for association events and member gatherings.
