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Granted! Author Offers Five Valuable Tips to Help
Educators Navigate the Grant Process
PHOENIX - Jan. 21, 2010 - Within the current environment of reduced education budgets nationwide, it is vital for educators wishing to implement innovative classroom projects to find money through nontraditional means. Grants provide great sources for such funding, yet many educators and their supporters are unsure about the grant process.
Granted! A Guide to Writing and Winning Classroom Grants by Phoenix's Chris Taylor, provides a step-by-step guide through the process. It offers useful forms, suggestions as well as plenty of encouragement.
Below, Taylor provides five useful tips for the beginning education grant writer:
- Do your homework!
As a teacher, you are used to giving homework. Now is the time to do your own! Talk to colleagues about their own grant writing experiences. Ask questions and take notes. What grants did they seek? Were they successful? What tips can they offer? Grants may be given by governments, non-profits, foundations, professional organizations, companies and even individuals. It's best to research several different types of grant givers to learn what's available. Keep track of everything you learn and do.
- Get organized!
Create your own grant writing notebook like the one suggested in Granted! You will be gathering lots of information regarding grant giving entities and writing lots of ideas for grant worthy projects. The cost of items and services you may want to purchase should be recorded. Keep all this data well-organized so it will be at your fingertips when the time is right to use it.
- Ask for help!
You may have lots of ideas to promote learning in your classroom. But, you are already so overloaded with work that the thought of writing a grant seems overwhelming. So, ask for help and bring others into the process. Parent volunteers may be looking for a way to help you that doesn't involve selling candy or gift wrap!
- Just write it!
Whether you are writing your own grant, or relying on parent volunteers, don't let fears about the process stop you. Focus on the specific guidelines of the grant giving entity and build your proposal around the elements that most grant applications have in common: project description; project need and/or goals; project budget; and evaluation methodology. You have what you need to succeed, so don't hesitate. Write! Write! Write!
- Don't stop!
If your first grant writing experience is not successful, learn from it and write another one. If you ARE successful, don't stop at just one grant award. Write more! You probably have many more ideas for projects supporting learning in your classroom. Use the methods you used in your first grant writing effort and hone them for future grant proposals. And, pay it forward by being a mentor to others who are just beginning their grant writing journeys. Perhaps, a gift of the book Granted! might be a good way to start them on their way!
If you want help with the grant writing journey for yourself or others, take the five tips into account and then go to www.CafeGranted.com to purchase a copy of Granted! A Teacher's Guide to Writing and Winning Classroom Grants by Chris Taylor.
Granted! A Teacher's Guide to Writing & Winning Classroom Grants (ISBN: 978-1-58985-113-9), a Five Star Publications book, retails for $24.95 and can soon be purchased in bookstores and through BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com, indiebound.org and FiveStarPublications.com. Visit www.CafeGRANTED.com for more information.
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Size: | 8.5" by 11" / 184 pages |
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