This is a hands-on course in grant writing. Developing effective grant writing skills are essential to acquire competitive funding for governmental agencies and private foundations. Writing a successful grant proposal is a blend of art and science. It requires basic knowhow, content knowledge, writing proficiency, strong research skills, creativity, and organizational ability, and networking ability. One of the first lessons that will be learned is successful grants emerge from working effectively with others to draw out ideas, capture those ideas to create a program or a plan for research, show how the plan is what is needed to respond to the "Request for Proposals," and package those ideas so that they make sense to the reviewers of the proposal. Grant writing is increasingly a team activity. Whether or not you obtain the funding is sometimes less important than the networking that you do as a part of developing a grant proposal. We will also explore the nuances of gathering and documenting data in First Nations communities, the importance of developing culturally competent evaluations, and the need for community input during the grant writing process. This course also provides students with the background necessary to develop a competitive funding proposal.
P: FNED 800.