It doesn't matter how good your educational technology ideas are, sometimes (usually) your funding is not sufficient to cover your plans. With this assignment, you will have the opportunity to write a grant for funding an actual project in your educational institution.

Your grant proposal should be written to fund a project that fulfills a need that you see in your school. You probably won't find funders who will support you purchasing a computer lab, but you will find funders who want to make a difference by funding a literacy program in a needy school. It just so happens that it uses a computer lab to make it happen.

Make your grant proposal meaningful to you.

Your grant writing should be pertinent to you. This means that it should apply to your personal situation. You and your group can achieve this through a variety of different ways:

• Write a REAL grant as a group to fund your fictional school.
• Write REAL grant as a group to fund a REAL need in a REAL school that may or may not relate to your fictional school.

• Write a REAL grant for a REAL need in a REAL school but write it independently or in dyads or triads. (If you decide to do this, please be considerate of your group members in a way that does not leave a single member "out in the cold.")
• If you have another configuration that hasn't been mentioned, please contact Dr. Z and discuss it.

Assignment:

Once you and your grant-writing team have identified a need and a potential project that will address that need, review the sample grants that are linked from the RWLD page. These provide you with examples of grant strategies that work.

Turn your potential project into a grant proposal using the Scholastic Grant Writing Seminar as a guide. This is a 6 lesson seminar and your group will be expected to complete and submit each of the 6 steps:

• Getting Started - Developing an Idea
• Developing the Need Statement - What is it that you are trying to address?
• Developing Project Activities - What do you plan to do to address these needs?
• The Grant Budget - How much will everything cost?
• Evaluating Your Proposal - You will need to be able to evaluate and assess the success of your project. Explain how you will accomplish this.
• Putting It All Together - Turn it into a final proposal to be submitted.

Your group will be expected to:

• Complete and submit all of the homework assignments in the Scholastic Grant Seminar. (These will be submitted as a single digital packet)
• Identify funding sources for you to use.
• Select a target source and review its Request For Proposal (RFP)
• Write a final proposal specifically designed to fit the selected RFP.

Submit:

• The Scholastic Seminar homework that you completed in preparation for writing this grant.
• An electronic copy of the RFP you decided to address.
• The Actual Grant Proposal that you have written in response to your selected RFP. It MUST correspond with the accompanying RFP's information requirements and format. You do not have to provide actual signatures or approval of school/district officials (although if you want to actually submit this proposal, it might save you time and effort if you talk with the administration early in the development.)
• Zip all of your files and submit them to the Grand Proposal dropbox.:
  • The preparatory document (Seminar Homework) and actual grant proposal MUST BE in Microsoft Word format. (I will respond to your work using the Insert Comment utility so format is important.)
  • The RFP may be in Word or PDF formats. You may also refer to the URL at the beginning of the preparatory document if you are using one that is found on the Web. Begin your address with http:// so that it will be "hot" in MS Word.

  Grant Writing Assignment Rubric

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  This page was last updated by Dr. Z on 3/10/12