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GrantProse, Inc., Newsletter
September 18, 2011
Vol. 3, No. 29
Newsletter Editor: Derek Gatlin
North Carolina's leading newsletter for information on grants.
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Dear Colleagues,
We're proud to announce that we have scheduled four new training classes to be held at Wake Technical Community College! If you have not yet been our training class, please see the schedule below for details about how to sign up. If you have been to our training before, please recommend us to your colleagues and/or via our social media profiles (e.g., our LinkedIn or Facebook profiles). Also, please note our new recurring segment below, the "Grants Digest," that will feature current issues in the grants world.
As you may know, the publication of this newsletter signifies that we have updated our Grant Alerts. In addition, we have also added a new source to the Data Sources Guide found on our webpage for Tips. We hope that you successfully utilize these resources to enhance and expand your development efforts. Further, we hope that you share our newsletter, website, and resources with friends and colleagues whom it may also benefit.
We are providing all of this information because it is our mission to assist institutions, agencies and organizations expand fiscal resources and program operations, helping clients locate and secure grant funds matched to their interests and needs. Thank you for being a part of this mission with us, and for helping us disseminate information about our Grant Alerts, consultation services and training workshops.
We are encouraged by your active engagement with us through social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. We also hope you mark our website as a favorite on your computer, and return often to learn what's new in the grants world.
As always, thank you for your appreciation of our work!
Bill Carruthers
GrantProse, Inc.
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Training Schedule | |
SUCCESSFUL GRANT WRITING
2012 Calendar
Grant writing training programs are scheduled for the 2012 year. At present, we will offer two types of program:
1) A one-day program for Novice and Beginner (little to no experience with grants), and
2) A two-day program for Intermediate and Advanced (some experience with grants)
Training dates are as follow:
* Novice/Beginner - January 24, 2012 (Course #76903)
* Novice/Beginner - February 21, 2012 (Course #76922)
* Novice/Beginner - March 20, 2012 (Course #76932)
* Intermediate/Advanced - April 24-25, 2012 (Course #76935)
* Intermediate/Advanced - May 22-23, 2012 (Course #77023)
For information and to register, please visit our Training page on our website at http://www.grantproseinc.com/training.html . |
Congratulations! | | |
Congratulations to the North Carolina New Schools Project (NCNSP) for winning the Transition to Teaching grant competition!
While this was not a grant proposal that GrantProse had the opportunity to assist you with, we are glad to highlight the success of your proposal, entitled "Innovative Pathways to STEM Teaching Careers." The purpose of this program is to help school districts throughout the state recruit highly qualified and licensed STEM teachers. To this end, NCNSP will offer tuition-free licensure preparation courses to selected college graduates who are STEM majors and who express interest in teaching. This alternative licensure pathway will encourage 48 teachers per year to enter school districts throughout the state that have the highest rates of under-qualified teachers. This is a great program and we're proud that NCNSP is bringing it to our state. |
DOD SBIR/STTR Training | | |
Want access to federal funding for R&D from the Department of Defense?
The Small Business and Technology Development Center is offering training sessions on how to prepare successful SBIR/STTR grant proposals for the Department of Defense. While we have not attended this training and therefore cannot attest to its quality, we are bringing it to your attention because it is a niche opportunity that you may be interested in. According to their website, this training is for "technology companies in IT, engineering, energy, and educational software, biotech, medical devices, diagnostics, and health IT."
For more information, please see their website at http://www.sbtdc.org/events/dod/index.htm. And, if you do attend, please let us know if you enjoyed it. |
Grants Digest | | |
In this new feature of the newsletter, we will draw your attention to interesting resource material that we have found on the Internet. The topics that we organize for the Digest will be ones having general interest to grant-writing professionals as well as consumer agencies that may contract with such individuals. We will introduce you to the topic with some observations of our own, and then direct you to some Internet links where you can find more discussion. Community service is an area that we like to emphasize in the GrantProse business model, and we plan to continue the Digest for this purpose.
Topic: Should grant-writers be paid by the hour, by the project, or a commission based on the value of the grant?
At GrantProse, we charge by the hour for our work and do not work on the basis of receiving a commission from the grant award. Estimating how many hours we are likely to work for a client on a project, we typically set a fixed-price, upper limit which reflects the limit of how much the client may be obligated to pay. Within the boundaries of the hourly rate and this upper limit, we expect to complete the project and satisfy the client. If we are able to complete the project in fewer hours than estimated for the upper limit of the contract, the client pays only for the hours expended. If the task appears that it will require many more hours than were estimated, we and the client will write a "change order" and renegotiate the contract. In contrast to this form of hourly billing, among grant-writing professionals the work-for-commission scheme is generally viewed as unethical with disadvantages for both the grant-writer and contracting agency. For more discussion on this topic, here are some Internet links which offer perspectives on the issue.
Raise-Funds.com: http://www.raise-funds.com/2002/positioning-grant-writers-for-success/#comments
The Grantsmanship Center: http://www.tgci.com/magazine/Consulting%20Fees%20for%20Grant%20Proposal%20Writing.pdf
A LinkedIn discussion on the Grant Professionals Association group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=1820340&type=member&item=66052572&trk=group_search_item_list-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egna_1820340 |
Grant Opportunities
NEW
Deadline: 02/01/12
Program: Sustainable Energy Pathways
Agency: National Science Foundation
Description: The goal of this grant is to develop sustainable energy strategies that can be effectively brought to scale. To this end, the following areas of interest are listed on the website: Energy Harvesting & Conversion from Renewable Resources; Sustainable Energy Storage Solutions; Critical Elements & Materials for Sustainable Energy; Nature-Inspired Processes for Sustainable Energy Solutions; Reducing Carbon Intensity from Energy Conversion & Use; Sustainable Energy Transmission & Distribution; Energy Efficiency & Management. Fifteen to twenty awards are estimated to be made, and project periods can be up to four years.
Award Amount: $500,000
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11590/nsf11590.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Eligibility: nonprofits, colleges and universities
NEW
Deadline: 02/12/12
Program: Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory-Based Sciences - FY 2012
Agency: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Description: This grant is intended to bridge the gap between laboratory biological science and the population and computational sciences by establishing a training program to connect researchers at medicine schools and schools of public health. Funding for this program is available annually through 2014.
Award Amount: $500,000
Website: http://www.bwfund.org/pages/159/Institutional-Program-Unifying-Population-and-Laboratory-Based-Sciences/
Eligibility: colleges and universities | | |
Looking for something specific? Email us a description (25 words or less) about the grant funding you are seeking, and we'll keep an eye out for suitable grants as we build our Grant Alerts. We post new Alerts twice a month. To view the latest listings, and many more opportunities, visit our Grant Alertswebpage and join us on Facebook. |
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