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First Grant Proposal:Keys to Success Another 453 Vidcast by
Dean Rehberger
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7 Keys to Success• Overcoming artificialness
• Picking the right topic
• Be someone
• Use the CAF RFP
• Keep on track with the activities
• Avoid contact
• Ask lots of questions
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Grant Proposal I• Fictional
• Use a real grant program from foundation or government agency
• Assume a role as a grant writer for a real nonprofit or researcher
• Use WRA453 Common Application Format for the Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Proposal will be a maximum of 12 pages
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7 Keys to Success• Overcoming artificialness
• Picking the right topic
• Be someone
• Use the CAF RFP
• Keep on track with the activities
• Avoid contact
• Ask lots of questions
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Overcoming artificialness• “Don’t let the grant writer write the proposal”
✴Quote from Gwen Walden
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Overcoming artificialness• Most grant writing is done as part of a team
• Proposals grow out of work already being done
• New areas require lots of research or new partners
• Grant writing is not so much about writing a document as doing a process (managing a project)
• Grant writing is about establishing and maintaining knowledge networks (relationships with funders, research on funders, program planning and implementation)
• Grant writing is the collecting of “text chunks” and making them flow as part of a proposal
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Picking the right topic• Pick a topic you already know a good deal about
• Pick a topic where you have done research and writing
• Pick a topic that you are passionate about
• Talk to your program officer, Dean Rehberger, if you are struggling for a topic
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Be someone• Imagine yourself working for a “real” nonprofit or researcher
• Don’t need to make things up
• Practice being a weaver of texts
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Be someone
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Be someone
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Use the CAF RFP
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Use the CAF RFP
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Use the CAF RFP
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Use the CAF RFP
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Keep on track with the activities
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Keep on track with the activities
• Here is the problem (Needs)
• We have a solution (Goals & Objectives)
• We can solve it like this (Methods)
• The way we will solve it will work and we will prove it (evaluation)
• Here is how much it will cost (budget)
• Why are we the best for the job (qualifications)
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Avoid contact• Although the primary lessons of grant writing are,
• Build relationship with funders
• Contact the Grant Program Officer (PO)
• For purposes of this class, don’t contact funders.
• Your PO is Dean Rehberger and Joyce Meier
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Ask lots of questions• Always ask questions of your PO, Dean Rehberger
and Joyce Meier
• There is no such thing as bothering him or her
• Ask questions of fellow grant writers
• If you know people in the field, other grant writers or researchers, don’t hesitate to take them to lunch and talk.
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First Grant Proposal:Keys to Success Another 453 Vidcast by
Dean Rehberger