Grants and Other Fundraising Tools RAP Session Reflection
The word, "grant" tends to represent a big and scary document that any undergraduate student would feel nervous about approaching, but there are a variety of grants and key elements that can increase the success of a grant. This session was a hands-on approach to researching for grants, as well as writing them, so bring your past community work experiences to the table because you could find them very useful during the grant finding/writing process. There was also some discussion about other fund-raising methods which can be found if we "think outside the box."
To get credit for this RAP Session please make sure you leave us a summary with how it went, what you learned, or respond to the following questions in a comment on this entry or shoot Laura an email at damm0032@umn.edu.
Questions to comment on from Samone!
If you plan on writing a grant in the future, what factors will affect your
grant writing/searching process the most?
After the session, what kind of grants (federal, state, mini-grants,
community) interested you the most and why?
helpful websites:
http://www.technologygrantnews.com
http://www.uncg.edu/soe/trc/docs/Grantwebsites.pdf
If commenting, please put your full name and umn.edu email address so we know who to give credit to!
Comments
This session was really helpful for me because I was thinking of writing a grant for some CD players for Cedar Riverside, and also because I am interested in doing some projects abroad and was very curious about how to obtain some funding. I don't really know what you mean when you ask what factors will influence my grant writing process the most - I guess what I hope to accomplish with the grant is a big factor, and will help determine what kind of grant to apply for. After this session it's not that one type of grant (federal, etc) interested me most, but that I now understand that I can look into any of those areas for funding opportunities and can even use a combination of them all. Now that I know where to look and how to approach the process, I feel a lot more comfortable with the prospect of writing a grant in the future. Thanks guys!
Posted by: Heidi | April 10, 2009 4:05 PM