Grant Development Workshop

1. Grant Development Workshop Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D. Research Coordinator Center for Educational Materials in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) Confluence, Center for Creative Inquiry Sponsored by: College of Humanities, CERCLL and the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)

2. Today • Begin planning a project • Review the basic parts of a grant proposal • Discuss finding sources of funding • Consider how to develop relationships with funding agencies • Track the grant development process

3. Project Planning Templates • Two attached in your packet • Very similar but either should help with the development process. • Let’s start now! • Exercise: • 5 minutes: Use a project planning sheet and begin to outline your project • 5 minutes: Share your ideas with someone

4. Grant Writing Basics • Everything starts with a great idea! • Plan the project carefully and reasonably • Match funding source RFP with the ‘needs portion of the plan. • Look for similar projects and identify the funding source RFP –Request for Proposals RFGP –Request for Grant Proposals RFA- Request for Applications CALL- Call for Proposals (CFP) Application Solicitation (NSF, NASA)

5. Structure of a Proposal: Basic Elements • Letter of Intent (not always required) • Parts of a proposal: • Title • Project Narrative or Description • Overview (background or history) • Purpose statement • Literature Review • Significance of project • Goals and Objectives • Work Plan • Methodology (Activities) • Timeline • Personnel • Products / Deliverables / Outcomes • Evaluation / Assessment • Budget and Budget Narrative • Supportive Documents:

6. Research proposals: Quick tips! • an interesting research question • good contextualization in relevant literature • appropriate research design • a clear analysis plan • a qualified researchers • potential contribution beyond the research community [Deborah Winslow (NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Officer) Anthropology News. October, 2007 (Vol. 48, No.7). p. 31]

7. Cultural Anthropology Diss. Support from NSF …Check out the ADVICE!http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/anthro/suppdiss.jsp Statement of the research problem, specific aims, expectations, propositions or hypotheses 1 p Review of the literature and significance 2 p Preliminary studies by the student, if any 1 p Research Plan, 5 p, Including: Research Design Research Site or source of data (References and citations are as important in your methods as in your theory section) Data analysis plans Research Schedule 1 page • The research plan should begin with a statement of the research problem, phrased as a question that your research will answer. It should go on to give an overview of the research design, relating it to the theory. This should be followed by a brief description of the research site. Data collection and analysis methods follow. Key concepts such as “class”, “identity”, “resilience”, etc. should be unpacked and operationalized so that reviewers know exactly what you are talking about. Theories, setting and methods should be tightly linked: Readers should learn what the researcher is going to do and how the specific activities to be engaged in relate to both theory and setting. Note that a mere listing of a method is not enough to tell a reader what the researcher plans and why. The term "participant observation", for example, is extraordinarily general and should be unpacked into its specific components, each related to the information outcome that is //www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/anthro/suppdiss.jsp

8. Finding Funding: Public • Public Sources • Federal Funding • National Science Foundation NSF) www.nsf.gov • Department of Education www.ed.gov • Department of Defense www.defense.gov • National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) www.neh.gov • Institute of Museum and Library Services www.imls.gov • State Department www.state.gov • Bureau of Educational and Cultural affairs www.exchanges.state.gov • National Park Service www.nps.gov • USDA – Department of Agriculture www.usda.gov • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) www.nea.gov • National Institute of Health www.nih.gov • NASA National Air and Space http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/ • State level: Arizona Humanities Council www.azhumanities.org First Things First www.azftf.gov (generally www.azed.gov )

9. Finding funding: Private • Private Sources • Non-Profit Organizations (Charitable foundations) • Foundations • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Bank of America Charitable Foundation https://www.bankofamerica.com/philanthropic/grantmaking.action • Mellon Foundation • American Council of Learned Societies www.acls.org • George Lucas’ “Edutopia” http://www.looktothestars.org/category/5-education • Corporations • Intel – Google ‘Intel Philanthropy’ • Honda Corporation • Target (actually a non-profit philanthropy) http://sites.target.com • Microsoft

10. General Resources for Grants • General resource sites: • AzGATES: www.azgates.org • Foundation Center:http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/faqs/section_5a.html • Foundations.org List: http://www.foundations.org/ • UA; GIFT Center http://uafoundation.org/information/faculty_staff/grantseeking/giftcenter/grant_opportunities.shtml • Grants.gov: www.grants.gov • Research .gov: www.research.gov • Sign up to receive RSS feeds and email alerts for content and award updates by agency, institution, award amount, state, or congressional district. Personalize your Research.gov homepage links for easy access to helpful federal and research community sites.

11. The Social Science Research CouncilThe Smithsonian InstituteThe Woodrow Wilson National FellowshipThe National Science Foundation Some Sources for Graduate Students National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/funding/education.jsp?fund_type=2Specialized Information for Graduate StudentsThe following programs provide either direct (i.e., from NSF) or indirect (i.e., from an awardee institution) funding for students at this level or identify programs that focus on educational developments for this group such as curricula development, training or retention. Alliances for Graduate Education and the ProfessoriateArctic Research OpportunitiesCatalyzing New International CollaborationsCenters of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE)Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological SciencesDynamics of Coupled Natural and Human SystemsEast Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate StudentsEthics Education in Science and EngineeringFederal Cyber Service: Scholarship for ServiceGraduate Research Fellowship ProgramIntegrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship ProgramNational STEM Education Distributed LearningNSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral FellowshipsPan-American Advanced Studies Institutes ProgramPostdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions ResearchSBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement GrantsScience, Technology, and Society

12. More… • USA Study Guide http://www.usastudyguide.com/PhD-scholarships.htm Provides grants for grad students and international grad students (BUT you have to be ready to put in the time to check EACH agency!) • Javits Fellowship ProgramThe Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program, within the U.S. Department of Education, provides up to 4 years of competitively awarded support to students of superior academic ability and high financial need who are pursuing doctoral degrees, or the highest terminal degree, in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It is the only federal fellowship program that provides financial support to students pursuing graduate degrees in the humanities and arts. The Javits Fellowship Program is administered by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. URL: www2.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html.

13. More student funding sources http://www.class.uh.edu/dean/grad.htm • http://www. Dissertation FellowshipFunding: KU Level: Doctorate • Dissertation Fellowships -International Funding: Private Level: Doctorate • Dissertation Year FellowshipFunding: Private Level: Masters Doctorate • Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants in Women's StudiesFunding: Private Level: Doctorate • Doreen Kronick ScholarshipFunding: Private Level: Masters Doctorate • Dorothea Buck Latin American Fellowship -http://www.class.uh.edu/dean/grad.htm

14. Learn to read an RFP! • If you find an RFP to an organization that supports the type of work you want to do …. Read if carefully, several times! Exercise: • Find the following information • Due Date • Contact for program officer • Activities supported • Amount supported • Guidelines for proposal structure • Don’t just study the information presented, study the language used to present it!

15. Submissions and Reporting • Submissions • START EARLY • Internal Routing – Check with your department business manager. • Understand the involvement of the Sponsored Research Office • Electronic Submissions are common • Tutorials for NSF: www.fastlane.nsf.gov • Grants.gov: www.grants.gov • Reporting • The real work begins when you get the award • Document your project • Report on time • Create a good track record.

16. Follow up: Susan Penfield Email: sdp@email.arizona.edu CERCLL Office: 1423 E University Blvd, Modern Languages 561, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721-0067 Phone (520) 626-8071