Intro to Grants Research Shawnta Smith, Assistant Professor, Head of Reference The Graduate Center Library Tuesday, November 14, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm ssmith4@gc.cuny.edu @ShawntaDeshawn

From this (Beginners) Workshop Part 1: The Landscape of Grants Research Define grants and sponsored research Part 2: The Grant-Seeking Path How to develop keywords by determining your scope Part 3: Networks - Filling Your Own Bucket Identify your scholarly networks Part 4: Let’s Get Searching Overview databases for research

Part 1: The Landscape of Grants Research Barnyz https://www.flickr.com/photos/75487768@N04/ Image credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

World of Giving Fellowships Assistantships Residencies Travel awards Essay Contests Post-doctoral study Prizes and Awards Scholarships Early Career Honorarium Stipend Gifts Federal Grants Commissions Professional Development – Graduate students received an average of $27,740 per FTE student in financial aid, including $9,300 in grants, $17,460 in federal loans, $890 in tax credits and deductions, and $90 in FWS. Image Credit: Earth CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Kevin Spencer https://www.flickr.com/photos/tw0bit/

Trends in Graduate Student Aid From Baum, S., Ma, J., Pender, M., & Welch, M. (2016). Trends in Higher Education Series. College Board. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED572538

Grant-giving- Forms+ Institutional Grants Private and Employer Grants Education Tax Benefits Federal Grant Programs Federal Work-Study State Grants Federal Aid Source: Baum, S., Ma, J., Pender, M., & Welch, M. (2016). Trends in Student Aid, 2016. Trends in Higher Education Series. College Board. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED572538

Private Institution Grant giving - Perspectives Seeking an individual with fiscal sponsorship to support their work while also promoting the institution’s mission The Foundation Center Scholars Seeking financial support from a reputable institution to complete the dissertation research and/or writing Every graduate student

What Others are saying Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts. Foundation Center. (n.d.). Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=953&v=B-iFQi0-af4

What others are saying Grants for Your Education From GICUWMad. (n.d.). Grants for your Education. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1486&v=tvq-LMfZkLA

The Grant-seeking Path Field of study Demographics Institutional affiliations Peer-group Faculty recommendations Conference presentations Papers in process Research components Geography Activity: To determine your scope, brainstorm the above points and use results as a list for future database keywords

The Grant-seeking Path - Field of Study What is the interdisciplinary nature of your field of study

The Grant-seeking Path - Demographics & Geography This includes your gender, race, ethnicity, that of your parents, and your country of origin. Geography This may also include the demographics and of your subject, depending on your

The Grant-seeking Path - Affiliations & Conferences Institutional affiliations This includes your memberships and where you are enrolled. Conference Proceedings Look to the institutions for which you have presented. Who are the sponsors of these conferences? Also, are there papers for which you may apply for travel grants?

The Grant-seeking Path - Faculty and Conferences Speaking to faculty directly will offer leads. Additionally, look to see which grants have been awarded to faculty and check those grant-giving entities for junior-grants. Peer Group Seek the grants of your peers in your cohort first, then others across the nation.

The Grant-seeking Path - Components of Papers Papers in Process What are the affiliations and grants for authors cited? What is the research question for particular papers and how does it apply to the grant-seeking path? Research Components What are the parts of your research? Archival research? Travel? Interviews? Specific components may be fundable.

Activity - People and Institutions 10 mins Brainstorm the points on the grantseeking path Make a list of terms that fall under different points Create a grouping of three - five keywords that you will use when searching in a database

Part 2: Networks - Filling Your Own Bucket Image Credit: Well Measurement CC-BY-2.0 Dwight Sipler

Why Social Academic Networks Close to home Be where the researchers are located Including yourself in an international conversation Where there are researchers there is sponsored research Many databases have come to see the usefulness of social networks such as Pivot Profiles feature

Evaluating your Networks People Authors on your course syllabus Friend on the Academic Commons Your professors and committee members Colleagues Social Media Networks Institutions National associations in your field Academic Institutions that you’ve applied to aside from the GC Co-presenters at conferences institutional affiliations Publishers and journals Research the grants received by the people in your networks and research the institutions in your networks for sponsored research opportunities as well as for additional people

Activity - People and Institutions 10 mins Make a list of People and Institutions in your network Use your reading lists, your bibliographies, conferences that you’ve attended Mine through the CV of a professor or scholar that you admire or whose work closely resembles yours or someone you’ve come across in a network Write the names of at least three - five grants that you haven’t heard of to get you started

Part 3: Let’s Get Searching! Image Credit: by Sylvanus Stall in Public Domain from Internet Archive Book Images

Tools to getting to People and Institutions Online Communities Academic repositories: eg. CUNY Academic Works (http://academicworks.cuny.edu/) Listservs & Networks: eg. HNet (Humanities and Social Sciences Online HNet) Author identifiers: eg. ORCID (http://orcid.org/) Non-Profit Websites Grantspace (http://grantspace.org/) Philanthropy News Digest (http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/)

Databases (will require institutional proxy log-in) Pivot http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/COSPivot Foundation Directory Online http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/FoundationDirectory Foundation Grants to Individuals http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/FoundationGrants Grant Advisory Plus http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/GrantAdvisorPlus Grant Forward http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/grantforward Look to library libguides http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/grants

Evaluating Grants Eligibility Deadlines Access Points Initial Point of Contact Processing charges Institutional backing or history Acceptance rates Application materials Use your keywords from the grant-seeking path to further evaluate the grants as you search

Shawnta Smith-Cruz Assistant Professor Head of Reference The Graduate Center Library ssmith4@gc.cuny.edu @ShawntaDeshawn