This Zoom webinar will take place from 9 AM - 1 PM (Central Time) for four consecutive days Monday through Thursday, July 27–30, 2026. This comprehensive webinar includes 10 hours of material, so we have divided the instruction into four half days to allow for optimal energy and participation from presenters and participants alike. Can't attend one or more sessions? No problem! Each session will be recorded and available to you a few days after the conclusion of the webinar. You will be able to view any missed sessions (or replay attended sessions) at your convenience until the competition submission deadline—whenever that will be.

The workshop will consist of the following sessions to help you start developing a successful Upward Bound/Upward Bound Math–Science proposal:

1. Competition Overview & Proposal Writing Mindset

2. Budget

3. Need for the Project (Part 1)

   1. Target Area Baseline

   2. Comparison Data Collection

4. Need for the Project (Part 2)

   1. Target School Baseline

   2. Comparison Data Collection

5. Objectives

6. Plan of Operation (Part 1)

   1. Plan to Inform Target School & Area

   2. Plan to Identify, Recruit, & Select Participants

7. Plan of Operation (Part 2)

   1. Plan to Assess Need

   2. Plan to Deliver Services

   3. Plan to Manage the Project

8. Applicant & Community Support

9. Quality of Personnel

10. Evaluation Plan

11. Overview of Possible Priorities

(See Schedule/Agenda below or download a copy of the tentative Agenda for more details.)

Is a scheduling conflict keeping you from attending the live webinar? No problem!  Go ahead and register, and after the webinar you'll receive an email with links to the entire 10-hour recording that you can watch any time.

Elizabeth "Lisa" Retamozo has 30 years of experience implementing, managing, supervising, and evaluating federal (TRIO) and state-funded educational and career opportunity programs serving low-income and potential first-generation college students.

In 2003, Lisa started her own consulting company, NOSOTROS Education Center (NEC). Since then, Lisa and the NEC team have provided TRIO Projects nationwide with short/long-term technical assistance, new project implementation, project evaluation; assistance with annual performance reporting, database customization/training; compliance assessments, in-service training, and professional development seminars; development of policies and procedures manuals, proposal writing, and technical review services.

Lisa and the NEC team have a very successful record of securing over $879 million in federal and state funding for agencies and institutions through the development and technical review of grant proposals with a 92% success rate.

Lisa received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Masters in Business Administration from Texas Woman’s University.

Early Bird registration fee for individuals is $500 ($650 beginning July 1) or for institutions/agencies $1,500 ($1,650 beginning July 1). Institutional/agency registration includes an unlimited number of attendees from one institution.

Registration fee includes the following:

• Resource materials and recordings of all sessions

• FREE access to all follow-up UB/UBMS Proposal Writing Workshops

• FREE enrollment in the accompanying online proposal writing course

• Access to the NEC Client-only UB/UBMS Competition Discussion Group

Available methods of payment include credit and debit cards, PayPal, and offline Manual (invoice and check).

Experience matters. NEC has more than 20 years of experience successfully developing or reviewing federal grant proposals for institutions and agencies throughout the nation—with impressive rates of success:

• 100% of Upward Bound proposals were funded in the 2022 competition

• 90% of Upward Bound Math–Science proposals were funded in 2022 (all unfunded proposals had perfect scores and were on the funding band)

• 92.3% of all proposals developed or reviewed since 2006 were successfully funded (631 of 684 proposals) See more stats here.

  
  

And... since we started tracking this data in 2022, more than 75% of NEC Proposal Writing Workshop attendees submitted successful proposals.

Compliance matters. We keep track of the shifting landscape and expectations of the Department of Education and the Department of Labor so we can help you avoid pitfalls that could jeopardize your proposal.

In surveys of our Talent Search and Student Support Services Proposal Writing Workshops, attendees provided the following positive feedback:

• 100% (30/30) said they would recommend the workshop to a friend or colleague.

• 96.66% (29/30) of respondents thought the content delivered what was promised.

• 93.33% (28/30) said the information received in the webinar was Very Actionable.

Here are some quotes from the surveys:

"Presenters are very knowledgeable and their experience with TRIO provides a lot of credibility to the information they shared. I liked when they provided real examples from their programs to help us understand the information."

"All of the links and Google Drive resources are wonderful! I would definitely participate in another NEC event."

"This training was by far the BEST TRIO workshop, and I've done SSS, Upward Bound, and Talent Search from other sources and they simply don't compare to the quality, resources, and knowledge. I also appreciated insight into "lost points" and how to improve the answers. The training was worth every penny!"

"NEC always takes my jitters about writing down. I feel more confident after I hear from Ms. Retamozo! 😊"

"I like how each section was broken down and that each section is its own recording."

"The best thing I liked was all the different insights provided. Why you need to pay special attention to certain details because they lost points or readers made a comment about xyz. I thought that was extremely helpful."

Want to see more? Check out our Client Testimonials  page.

Still have questions? Contact us at info@nosotrosedu.org