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Dear Colleagues,
With the upcoming release of our new website, we have been busy creating new content that will be valuable to you and your organizations. In this regard, we are pleased to announce the release of our new training video - available for free on YouTube. Please see the featured article below nd/or follow us on YouTube via the link on the left-hand side of this email.
Also, please see our training schedule facilitated by 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).
As you may know, the publication of this newsletter signifies that we have updated our Grant Alerts. 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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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 . |
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New YouTube Video: On Logic Models
We were pleased to serve the faculty of Saint Augustine's College by conducting a grant writing training class as a part of their annual Faculty Institute. Below is a video we have created from the footage of the event and we are proud to present it to you here.
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To keep up with us on YouTube, please subscribe to our videos here. Also, please free to share this with as many people as you would like. We are glad that our service to Saint Augustine's College can be shared with you all. Thanks to Medra Roberts-Southerland for enabling us to create this video! |
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." The training is on November 3rd, at the Embassy Suites in Cary, NC.
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. |
Grant Opportunities
NEW
Deadline: 01/20/12
Program: Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in
the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program (SPECA)
Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Description: The purpose of this grant is "to promote and strengthen agriscience and agribusiness education." Toward this end, this program will increase the number and diversity of students entering 2- or 4-year degree programs in food, agriculture, and/or STEM related fields. Also, this program will improve the quality of postsecondary education to meet the workforce needs of these fields.
Award Amount: $300,000
Website: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/sec_challenge.html
Eligibility: colleges and universities
NEW
Deadline: 01/17/12 (letter of intent due on 12/16/11)
Program: Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), A Competition to Reconfigure the NCN
Agency: U.S. National Science Foundation
Description: According to their website, the current NCN "will be restructured as a stand alone Cyber Platform awardee, which will provide computation, simulation and educational services to the nanoscience and engineering communities, including the current nanoHUB tools and educational materials."
Award Amount: $2.9 million per year for five years
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12504/nsf12504.htm
Eligibility: colleges and universities
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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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