Training
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The ANA Western Region is gearing up for our 2025 Project Planning and Development Training (PPD) with 2 virtual and 2 in-person training sessions. We are looking forward to meeting with you online to help you design 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 Project Planning and Development Training - REGISTER NOW!
Our upcoming PPD trainings will prepare you to work closely with your community in order to develop a community-based project. Developing a project around the community’s wants and needs will ensure that you are addressing the most pressing issues faced by your community as well as a strong foundation on which to craft a project grant proposal in the future. This is not a step you’ll want to miss! Topics for both in-person and virtual trainings will be dependent on time constraints, but both will include:
- How to engage your community to ensure their voices are heard,
- How to use community input as the basis of a feasible project design; and,
- How to prepare for the next steps in the project development process.
**This training is focused on designing a community-based plan and NOT application drafting. Getting ahead of the game with a community-based project plan in advance of any future NOFO publication is crucial. 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 Pre-App training, then visit our Webinars tab.
| PPD Trainings: | Training 1 | Training 2 | Training 3 | Training 4 |
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| Date/Time: | Virtual – Attend ALL Days
Dates: Sept 22-25, 2025 4 Consecutive Days Only 1 Week! Time: 10am – 1pm PST (1pm – 4pm EST)
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Virtual – Attend ALL Days
Dates: Sept 29 – Oct 2, 2025 4 Consecutive Days Only 1 Week! Time: 10am – 1pm PST (1pm – 4pm EST) |
In-Person – Portland, OR or Vicinity
Dates: Oct 7-9, 2025 3 Consecutive Days Hotel TBD Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm Local Time |
In-Person – Albuquerque, NM
Dates: Oct 21-23, 2025 3 Consecutive Days Hotel TBD Time: 8:30am – 4:30pm Local Time |
| Register for only one Training! | REGISTER HERE! | REGISTER HERE! | Register Below! | Register Below! |
| Frequency: | This virtual training will meet on 4 consecutive days during one week.
Plan to attend all training days in the session.
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This virtual training will meet on 4 consecutive days during one week.
Plan to attend all training days in the session.
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This in-person training will meet on 3 consecutive days during one week.
Plan to attend all training days in the session. Once confirmed, we will post a hotel room block and travel information for you to book your own transportation and hotel. Registrants will be notified and more information will be posted here.
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This virtual training will meet on 3 consecutive days during one week.
Plan to attend all training days in the session. Once confirmed, we will post a hotel room block and travel information for you to book your own transportation and hotel. Registrants will be notified and more information will be posted here. |
* Dates are subject to change
**In-person dates and locations cannot be confirmed until a minimum of 5 Tribes/Organizations have registered. Once confirmed, you can book your travel.
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.
