About Angie

Angie Eng is an intermedia artist, arts administrator, and educator with more than twenty years of experience building, funding, managing cultural initiatives and teaching in the United States and abroad. She has founded three cultural nonprofits combining her creative vision with her arts administration skills of budget tracking, fundraising, compliance reporting, contract coordination, marketing and community engagement.

 

Classes

The current class descriptions below are to give scholarship applicants an idea of what topics each instructor will be covering. These are NOT finalized descriptions, they are to give prospective scholarship applicants a sense of what will be available. Finalized descriptions, schedules, and links are forthcoming.

Please remember to check back frequently for more detailed updates on class dates, times, or registration links. If you have questions about a particular class, please contact the instructor directly. 

Grant Writing Intensive for Creatives

This intensive grant writing course equips creatives, emerging grant writers, nonprofit professionals and small business owners with practical strategies for finding funding opportunities, preparing competitive applications, and developing strong project narratives, budgets, and support materials. Through hands-on instruction and assignments, participants will leave with a draft of a project proposal, tailored artist or mission statement, professional bio/CV, work sample package, line-item budget, and reporting plan ready for future grant submissions. 

• 2-day online weekend course to learn the strategies of effective grant writing and reporting
• Dates: September 13/20th, October 4,11. 12:30-6:30 PST (students are expected to work 2-3 hours on assignment between dates)
• Available spots: 20 each session

REGISTRATION OPENS SOON.

Please contact the instructor if you have questions.

8 Module Workshop on Grant writing

Course objectives include: develop a strategy for selecting grants, differentiate between funding sources, learn how to prepare materials, prepare effective work samples, improve documentation, write summaries using AI apps. lLearn about local opportunities and grants listings, write effective budgets

Module 1 — Grantwriting mindset strategies

• Understand the main funding ecosystems
• Match your project to the correct funder
•  Grant types
• Eligibility pitfalls
• “Fundable project” checklist

Module 2 — Summary of your mission/project

• 10-minute “project core” exercise: who / what / why now / where / impact 
• Grants databases

Module 3 — Grant pipeline

• Building a weekly pipeline 
• Create an “Opportunity Tracker” structure

Module 4- Drafting a proposal with vital components

• Project summary Mission/Artist statement 
• Need/Context 
• Goals activities 
• Audience/community access 
• Timeline feasibility 
• Outcomes evaluation

Module 5 — Work samples that win: curation, captions, and compliance

• Work sample strategy 
• Captions/metadata
•  Common requirements and limits
•  Budget logic 
• Budget narrative 

Module 7 — Evaluation Rubrics

• Review different evaluation rubrics 
• Compare your proposal to the evaluation rubric using AI. Using ChatGPT (ethically effectively)

Module 8 — Reporting, compliance, and state/federal foundations

• Reporting stewardship 
• What funders typically want
• Build a simple reporting plan

REGISTRATION OPENS SOON.

Please contact the instructor if you have questions.

1:1 Mentoring and Grant Writing Tips

These 1:1 remote mentoring sessions will be offered on a needs basis. Students can book 1 to 2 hour sessions with the instructor to assist them with a specific project proposal or application. These 1:1 sessions are geared more for the student who has a specific grant in mind and needs consultation and mentorship to apply for the grant. There will be day, evening and weekend hours available to fit different work schedules. These private sessions will be available from October 1, 2026 -May 30th 2027. It does not include writing the grant or proposal for the student.

These private sessions will take place on Zoom and students will be provided a calendar of when they can book hours. Once they book a session, they will receive a confirmation. All sessions can be rescheduled or cancelled 72 hours in advance. No shows will still be charged.

Types of services offered for these sessions include:

• Prepare effective work samples 
• Write and format effective budgets 
• Tailored artist statement/mission statement 
• Fine tune Biographie(s), CV/resume 
• A line-item formatted budget 
• A detailed timeline 
• Copyediting 
• Writing tips 
• Resource tips 
• Strategize their application process 
• Using Canva for data-visualization graphs/charts

REGISTRATION OPENS SOON.

Please contact the instructor with any questions.