Training
Year-Round Training and Events for Successful Programs and Projects
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The ANA Western Region is gearing up for our 2025 Pre-Application Training (PPD) with 2 virtual training sessions. We are looking forward to meeting with you face-to-face and online to help you communicate your community-based project plan. And, as always, if you are unable to attend our live sessions, our pre-recorded trainings will be made available!
We also offer free one-on-one technical assistance at any time! Simply submit an assistance request, here. Pre-recorded trainings can be viewed on our Webinars Page here.
2025 Pre-Application Training - REGISTER NOW!
Register now for our ANA Western Region Pre-Application Training!
This training will help you to understand the ANA Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and to use your existing community-based project plan to draft your application. Topics of this training include:
- How to read the NOFO
- How to respond to each Merit Review Criteria
- How to apply using Grants.gov
**This training is focused on drafting an application and NOT project planning. Get ahead of the game with a community-based project plan in advance of this training and any future NOFO publication. Don’t wait! Start planning now!
If you haven’t started on the process of engaging your community or if you would like to catch up on a missed PPD training, then visit our Webinars tab.
| Pre-APP Trainings: | Training 1 – CONFIRMED | Training 2 – CONFIRMED |
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| Date/Time: | Virtual – Attend ALL Days
Dates: Mar 17-20, 2025 4 Consecutive Days Only 1 Week! Time: 10am – 12:30pm PST (11am-1:30pm EST)
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Virtual – Attend ALL Days
Dates: Mar 24-27, 2025 4 Consecutive Days Only 1 Week! Time: 10am – 12:30pm PST (11am-1:30pm EST) |
| Register for only one Training! | REGISTER HERE! | REGISTER HERE! |
| Frequency: | This virtual training will meet on 4 consecutive days during one week.
Plan to attend all training days in the session. A condensed training will allow you to work through the curriculum quickly before taking what you learn back to the community. |
This virtual training will meet on 4 consecutive days during one week.
Plan to attend all training days in the session. A condensed training will allow you to work through the curriculum quickly before taking what you learn back to the community. |
Types of Training We Offer:
- Monthly Webinars: View past webinars or register for upcoming webinars.
- Project Planning and Development (PPD): In-person event that takes place over several days and will walk you through community-based planning process that will help to shape your project design. Come to this training with an understanding of your community’s long-range goals. Don’t worry if you aren’t quite there yet, we can also help you identify those goals along the way. This training usually takes place in the Summer or Fall of each year, check back for our next event!
- Pre-Application (Pre-App): In-person event to walk you through the Federal Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), what’s expected in your grant proposal, and how to adapt your community-based project to ANA’s review criteria. Come to this training with a project idea already in mind. If you aren’t quite there yet, consider attending our PPD training first or check out the in advance. This training usually takes place in the Winter or Spring of each year, check back for our next event!
- Post-Award: In-person event held strictly for recent ANA grantees. Here we walk through the ANA grant cycle and expectations for reaching project objectives and goals. If you are a new grantee, you are required to attend this training and ANA will be in touch with more details. If you are an applicant, you can learn more about ANA’s expectations by looking at the Post-Award Manual or the Grants Management Toolkit – use these resources to flesh out your project design.
