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Title: SUPORTING YOUR GRANT REQUEST WITH RESEARCH


1
SUPORTING YOUR GRANT REQUEST WITH RESEARCH
  • Patricia M. Adrian, Research Specialist, WIRED
  • 9/10/2008

2
PURPOSE
  • Sharpen the focus of your efforts
  • Fact-based decisions
  • Articulate the NEED for your proposal
  • Supporting Evidence
  • Make a stronger case for receiving WIRED funding
  • Ensure that your proposal moves southeastern
    Wisconsin toward regional transformation
  • Link and leverage

3
AGENDA
  • Grant Proposal Content
  • Program Need
  • Using Research
  • Existing Data
  • What else is needed?
  • Targeting the solution
  • Tools
  • Finding Partners
  • QA

4
GRANT PROPOSAL CONTENT
  • Program Description
  • Program Need
  • Fact-based Substantiate with statistics,
    research findings
  • Supporting Evidence
  • Identify the purpose of your project and why it
    should be supported. Try to convince the funding
    institution that your project is important and
    that you are experts in this field. Give
    supporting evidence for your project from other
    experts showing that a problem exists and needs
    to be dealt with. (Encyclopedia of Grant
    Writing and Fund Raising http//www.urbanministry
    .org/book/export/html/9962)
  • Expected Outcomes How Success is Measured
  • Fact-based Supported by similar research
    findings
  • Partners
  • Extend the networking among agencies across the
    region?

5
PROGRAM NEED
  • Understand the current situation
  • Document the opportunity area
  • Whats the focus of your idea?
  • Investigate possible approaches
  • What would improve the current situation?
  • What would transform the current situation?
  • Are there initiatives in other regions that
    address similar situations?
  • Do these approaches seem likely to work here?
  • Support with evidence!

6
PROGRAM NEED EXAMPLES
  • a proposal for a new physical-education program
    for a school district documented the old and
    scarce equipment. There aren't enough soccer
    balls, so teams had to wait their turn to play.
    But idle time is not good for those students,
    because many are obese and do not meet basic
    fitness standards for children their age. The
    school district sought money for new sports
    equipment for activities that would appeal to
    more students, such as tennis, strength training,
    and aerobics.
  • In a proposal for a community technology center,
    the applicant showed the need for the facility by
    reporting the high poverty level of the
    surrounding area, along with the low standardized
    test scores in the schools. That was supported by
    national statistics showing less computer
    ownership among lower-income families.
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education, How to Write
    an Outreach Grant Proposal, Sept. 15, 2006
    http//chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/09/2006091501c
    .htm

7
USING RESEARCH
  • Understand the current situation
  • Find existing data
  • Quantify numbers of people affected today Trends
    over time Projections
  • Defensible sources (not blogs!)
  • What is not known?
  • May know s of high school dropouts but not the
    reasons
  • Document the opportunity area
  • Envision the way things could be
  • Consider the uniqueness of your region
  • What unique strengths could you build on?
  • Support the need for change with research
  • I never guess. It is a capital mistake to
    theorize before one has data. Insensibly one
    begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead
    of theories to suit facts. Sir Arthur Conan
    Doyle

8
USING RESEARCH, cont.
  • Investigate possible approaches
  • Unique needs of the region (growing the uranium
    exploration industry is likely not a good fit for
    southeastern WI)
  • Use the right vocabulary for the focus area
  • Research about jobs may want to use SOC (Standard
    Occupation Classification) categories (makes it
    easier to access existing research)
  • Illustrates your knowledge of the area
  • Tools
  • WIRED Research Index
  • Web sites, individual research studies, glossary
  • Government/Official Web sites
  • Census Bureau, Dept. of Labor, Dept. of
    Education, etc.
  • Workforce (http//www.workforce3one.org)
  • M7 (http//www.choosemilwaukee.com/)
  • Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking
    and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston

9
HOW MUCH RESEARCH?
  • Identify the practical boundaries of the focus
    area
  • Dont want to drown in data (analysis paralysis)
  • Different categories of funding
  • Exploratory Does data exist or will you do
    additional research to identify an opportunity?
  • Cite research to describe/justify approach
  • Demonstration - Will you apply a solution,
    measure the impact the focus area?
  • Cite research to indicate likelihood of success
    explain reasons for approach
  • Implementation - Will you implement a proven
    approach widely across the region?
  • Success measures of pilot program

10
FINDING PARTNERS
  • Check out what local projects are underway
  • Funded by local, national foundations
  • Google List of top funding foundations in WI?
  • Selected The Grantsmanship Center
    (http//www.tgci.com/funding/top.asp?statenameWis
    consinstatecodeWI)
  • Selected Helen Bader Foundation selected link to
    hbf.org
  • Selected Programs Youth Development
  • Got a summary of the funding philosophy, link
    to 2007 grants list
  • Talk to community leaders, economic development
    agencies, schools, etc.
  • Network here today!

11
HELEN BADER FOUNDATION YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (2007)
  • (Source http//www.hbf.org/2007_SAN.pdf)
  • St. Marcus Evangelical Lutheran Church Milwaukee
    WI 20,000
  • This grant will help St. Marcus School
    participate in Discover America, an integrated,
    experiential educational approach that introduces
    students in grades 4-8 to a global viewpoint.
  • Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee,
    Inc. Milwaukee WI 20,000
  • This grant will help the Boys and Girls Club of
    Greater Milwaukee continue the Milwaukee
    Striders' track and field training for central
    city youth.
  • Milwaukee Public Library Foundation,
    Inc. Milwaukee WI 15,000
  • This grant will help the Milwaukee Public
    Library Foundation continue its Teen Outreach
    Project, which uses a Library Teen Advisory Board
    to provide a voice for young people in planning
    library programs, collections, and teen services.
  • Urban Strategies, Inc. Milwaukee WI 14,000
  • This grant will help Urban Strategies provide
    consulting services to the Milwaukee Striders to
    help the nonprofit develop a long-term
    sustainability plan.
  • Counseling Center of Milwaukee, Inc. Milwaukee WI
    10,000
  • This grant will help the Counseling Center of
    Milwaukee (CCM) serve Milwaukee's runaway and
    homeless teens.
  • Milwaukee Tennis Education Foundation,
    Inc. Milwaukee WI 10,000
  • This grant will help the Milwaukee Tennis and
    Education Foundation offer its programs to
    disadvantaged Milwaukee children, ages 7-16.

12
Questions?
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
    committed citizens can change the world indeed,
    it's the only thing that ever has.
  • Margaret Mead
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