AWEC Workshops

The Triad.

These three programs are taken as a 3 day workshop that helps the participants to learn problem resolution, where and how to get money and how to manage the money they get or have.

Day 1

Problem Solving and Risk Management. This is a complete systematic strategic process for resolving business and personal problems. This workshop is a prerequisite first workshop of the Triad and will completely change the way you resolve organizational and personal problems.

STEP 1: Identify the situation
STEP 2: Develop the “Right” Problem Statement
STEP 3: Describe the Future Goals

STEP 4: Select the Choices
STEP 5: Assess the Choice
STEP 6: Distinguish and Measure Risks
STEP 7: Reach the Decision
STEP 8: Outline and Apply the Solution
STEP 9: Assess the Outcome

Day 2

Grant Writing Workshops.

AWEC has studied under grant writing experts who have written successful grants. Using these steps, these fund makers have been able to fund over ninety percent of their projects and we have their winning formula. Our grant writing workshops will introduce Participants to the 12 steps that yield results. Our experts will share their secrets with you. The workshops are taken individually or collectively, for those who have no grant writing skills and those with some grant writing experience but who wish to hone in on just a few specific areas. Our recommendation is for participants regardless of grant writing experience, take all 12 steps.

Successful Grant Writing Workshop

Step I: Getting ready for success.
Before you are able to begin to write grants, you must learn how the process works and what you will require to identify agencies that will complement your agency goals and objectives.

Step 2: Identifying Funding Sources.
We shall show you how to access every available grant that will compliment the mission statements of your organization. We will show you how to evaluate the requirements of the specific grants and what you must do to be in the running for the grant.

Step 3: Presenting the problem that require funding
Fund makers look for information in your grant that will assure them that you are aware of the needs of the community that you are seeking to serve. We shall show you the methods you can implement to research your community and come up with statistics that work.

Step 4: Putting the strategies for the program in place.
Grants are based on a point system; the higher the points that you generate the greater your opportunity to win a grant. Learn to submit Grants in a way that is appealing and enticing for the reviewer. Our goal is to show you how to increase the chances that your grant proposal is considered for funding.

Step 5: Presenting a refined mission and activities.
Your goals represent what your mission will achieve. We shall show you how to present your goals so that the grant maker and the person who will implement the program easily understand it.

Step 6: Describing the program evaluation
All programs need to show that a definite system is in place to measure the success of a program and a system to make modifications to the program to improve quality. We shall show you how you can show the measurability of the program by following specific steps.

Step7: Improving the proposal
We will teach you two proving methods to strengthen your proposal. One is to show what you have done in the past and how it has worked and the other is to show how your program will continue to do well in the future.

Step 8: Describing the Management objectives
It is imperative to convince the fund makers that you are able to manage the money that they put in your hands. You will need to show them how you will carry out the program and under what timelines. We shall teach you how to meet the management requirements that will bolster your proposal.

Step 9: Presenting and creating a budget
We shall show you how to build budgets that will represent actual costs for your program as well as show you how to develop community support for it. You will learn how to create very strong budgets that will stand the test against others.

Step 10: Going for Broke!
You have nothing to lose but everything to gain when you learn how to package all your hard work in a manner that entices the fund makers to take a good look at your proposal. Our experts will give you tips on the necessary final changes that assure that you have dotted all “Is” and crossed all “Ts”.

Step 11: Almost there!
We shall show you how to evaluate every segment of your grant to assure that you leave nothing out. We will even show you how to get to the post office or at the drop off site with your completed grant. At this stage, “get it there on time and mistakes are not on the menu!”

Step12: Stand By!
Upon submitting the grant, many novice grant writers exhale. Hold your breath because there is still work to do! We shall show you what to do in the event.

Day 3

Financial literacy

Our F.I.N.D program (Financial Independence, Not Dependence) F.I.N.D is a financial Literacy program for youth and adults. F.I.N.D teaches participants how to manage their finances. Through inter-active workshops, participants learn how to make money, how to save money, how to invest money, how to monitor their spending habits, and how to manage their credit. Our F.I.N.D program will educate the participants to develop the techniques to become more aware of their financial condition as they really are and learn practical and simple ways to tap into their unique circumstances and enhance their financial independence. We teach the participants how to stop procrastinating with their financial destiny and take control of it. We educate participants to critically evaluate their status and develop practical ways based on their unique circumstances to enhance their financial conditions.

What is your financial independence worth to you? Everything we are sure!

Module 1.
Introduction to wealth: The objective for this class is to expose participants to wealth building strategies. Topics to be covered are definition of wealth, how to measure wealth, and different wealth building techniques. Participants learn exercises to determine the areas of their finances that need improvement.

Module 2.
Savings and investments: The objective or this module is to help participants understand the importance of savings and investments in achieving their financial independence or create their ideal wealth. Topics will consist of the definition of savings and investing, the difference between savings and investing, and the instruments for savings and investing, (Bank accounts, C Ds, Stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, business, investment clubs etc.) Rule 72 and compounding, how to measure risks, and select the best savings and investments.

Module 3.
Credit management. The objective of this module is to help participants to manage their credit properly. Topics includes the definition of credit, various credits, the importance of credit report and scores, how to establish or reestablish credit, the cost of credit and how to repair their credit sooner to save on interest and live debt free.

Module 4.
Basic insurance: The objective here is to expose participants to understand the basics for managing risk while building their wealth. Topics will consist of disability insurance, life insurance, health insurance, long-term care insurance, property, and casualty insurance.

Module 5.
Estate planning: Here the goal is to engage participants to understand how to preserve and protect their wealth, their families and properties. Topics will consist of how to organize your financial and legal documents, wills, trusts, probate, and living will and to buy and sell agreements for businesses.

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