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Title: Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals


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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
  • Sponsored Research Office
  • Skidmore College
  • Saratoga Springs, NY
  • First thoughts
  • What do you wish to accomplish with the aid of
    the funds you request?
  • Why is it important to attain your objectives?
  • Who will benefit from your work? How will they
    benefit?
  • What are your qualifications for this project?

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Finding the right foundation
  • Begin by expressing, in two double-spaced pages,
    a summary of your project its objectives and
    merits.
  • Research foundation missions and identify
    candidates who would appear to be interested in
    your objectives
  • Call program officers, report your summary, gain
    their responses

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Once you have identified a foundation receptive
    to reviewing your proposal
  • Secure proposal guidelines from the foundation,
    read them and adhere to them rigorously (Font,
    margins, maximum number of pages, budget, order
    of topics, submittal deadline and address, number
    of copies, etc.)

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • Cover letter -Who are you? What organization do
    you represent? Why are you writing?
  • Project summary --One page description of the
    problem you propose to solve, your solution, the
    level of funding you seek, your qualifications
    and those of your organization to solve the
    problem.
  • Project context --Define the problem and the need
    for a solution. Justify the value of your
    solution. Describe the benefits of your work.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matterProject
    design
  • History of earlier work by others to solve the
    problem.
  • Evidence you have gathered that motivates your
    approach to the problem.
  • Detailed description of the specific steps you
    will take to solve the problem.
  • Clear description of how the specific steps
    respond to particular aspects of the problem or
    of the need you have identified.
  • Evidence of collaboration with other people or
    organizations who also wish to solve the problem.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • Evaluation plan
  • Select particular project objectives and choose
    methods for measuring progress toward these
    objectives during the project and at the end of
    the enterprise.
  • When possible, use numerical measures of project
    effectiveness (e.g., populations of
    participants, quantity of resources deployed,
    impact of the resources on the participants.)
  • Describe how you will use evolving assessment of
    the project to guide revision of your work.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • Dissemination plan
  • How will you alert others to the value of your
    findings? Publication in journals, development of
    web pages, talks at national meetings are the
    traditional answers, but foundations are often
    not satisfied with these answers.
  • Collaboration with people at other institutions,
    people who are invested in your project, and who
    can observe its operations in their context,
    offer a dynamic basis for spreading the word
    about the value of your design and
    accomplishments.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • The Budget
  • Provides a dollar-based description of your
    project.
  • Distributes costs so they reconcile closely with
    the emphases within your proposal. Each cost
    should connect specifically to particular
    operations of the project and exhibit reasonable
    cost-benefit properties.
  • Reports matching funds and other resources that
    your organization will provide for your project,
    and show how each match will increase the
    effectiveness of the foundations grant.
  • Reports reliable estimates of all costs and cost
    categories for the project.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • Recommendations for content and style
  • Report the problem, explore your solution, be
    concise, and help your reader grasp your
    initiative early on.
  • Write clearly in language that the non-specialist
    can understand.
  • Convey your concerns and strategies be brief and
    specific.
  • Minimize boilerplate.
  • Support your claims with evidence.
  • Make the narrative compact place supporting
    evidence (tables, charts, etc.) in an appendix.
  • Assure correct spelling, grammar, and clear
    organization of the proposal.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • Recommendations for preparation
  • Start early, write a draft of the proposal, wait
    a week, then read your draft.
  • Revise.
  • Ask a friend, a colleague, or the SRO to read the
    proposal and gain their response.
  • Revise.
  • Prepare to submit the proposal -- by way of the
    SRO.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • The proposal the heart of the matter
  • Organizational information
  • Location
  • Federal, state identification data (Tax ID, DUNS,
    etc.)
  • Brief history
  • Mission
  • Resources that support your project.

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Developing Persuasive Grant Proposals
Sponsored Research Office Skidmore
College Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Last thoughts (on this topic)
  • Alert the SRO to your project and plans for
    proposal development.
  • Work with the SRO to assure effective
    communications with all other College offices who
    need to know of your project and of the
    foundations you plan to pursue.
  • Inform the SRO of the foundation you plan to
    approach before you submit a proposal.
  • Work with the SRO to acquire College support
    (matching funds, cost sharing, dedicated
    resources, etc) of your externally funded
    project.
  • Report, by way of the SRO, the essentials of your
    project to a College database that stores
    information on all faculty proposals for external
    funding.

RPDS 7.17.2006
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