1 / 11

CLASP 2010: Grants for Humanists

Learn effective grant writing strategies and funding resources for faculty advising in the humanities. Topics include grant writing techniques, funding sources, and how to promote your successes.

mitchellrodriquez
Download Presentation

CLASP 2010: Grants for Humanists

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CLASP 2010: Grants for Humanists Cara Martin-Tetreault, Assistant Director, Bowdoin College Deb Fleming, Manager of Sponsored Projects, St. Olaf College

  2. Topics • Faculty Advising • Grant Writing Strategies • Funding Resources • Funding Sources

  3. Help me, Help You • Be Visible on Your Campus • Pick the low-hanging fruit • Don’t Make Assumptions • Provide Excellent Customer Service • Celebrate • Promote your Successes

  4. Faculty Advising • 80/20 • The “Why” • 1-year plan/3-year plan • “Tool Box” • Master Project timeline • Reasonable Parts • Master Funding timeline • Schedule the next meeting

  5. Tool Box • Who are the major players in the field? • Letters of Recommendation: Who? How many? • CV or Biosketch • Bibliography • 1200 character summary • Stats: majors/minors, department developments, honors projects, • Illustrations

  6. Grant Writing Strategies • May I suggest an exercise? • Journal vs. Proposal • What makes the project distinctive? • Why are you the one to it? • Why now? • What is the contribution to the discipline? The field? Society? • Reasonable? • I don’t care if you were told that you did not need to follow the guidelines 

  7. The Elevator Speech • 5 minutes to answer the following: • Who are you? • Why are you requesting money? • How much will you need? • When are you going to do the project? • Why are you the one to do the project? • What is the significance of the project?

  8. Funding Resources • CLASP lists • Foundation Center Newsletter • CLASP websites • Chronicle for Higher Education • Professional Societies • Grants.gov • Webinars • http://www.stolaf.edu/offices/foundations/

  9. Funding Sources • Loeb Classical Library Fellowships • NIH and NSF • Research that examines historical, philosophical and/or sociological questions that arise in connection with science and technology • NEA • Literature Fellowships • The George A. and Eliza Gardner Foundation • $25,000 for early-career faculty • NEH Teaching Development Grants • NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes • Intensive collaborative study of texts, topics and ideas central to undergraduate teaching of the humanities

  10. Contact Us Cara Martin-Tetreault 207.725.3767 cmartin3@bowdoin.edu Deb Fleming 507.786.3483 fleming@stolaf.edu

  11. Funding Sources contd. • American Council for International and Language Training Program: Title VIII Research Scholar Program • Archeological Institute of America • Association for Asian Studies • Humanities Research Group

More Related