1. Writing A Grant—From Start To Finish
Workshop 2:
Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Educational Resource Development
& LCC Foundation
March 28, 2017

2. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Last week we discussed:
What grants are and do
Types of funders
How to identify potential funders
Project planning basics
Identifying potential project partners
Roles of Educational Resource Development and
LCC Foundation
Overview of LCC and LCC Foundation grant process
Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea

3. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
This week we’ll explore:
The why’s and how’s of developing a grant project
Developing the project idea
Writing the case for support
Doing effective group work
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4. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Successful grant proposals:
Address a significant issue for both the applicant and the funder (defines the project’s goal)
Show an innovative and well supported approach to addressing that issue
Describe reasonable and measureable objectives, and a detailed work plan to achieve them
Include a plan to evaluate the project’s success
Include a clear and accurate budget
Assure the funder that the applicant is capable of success
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5. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Cultivating Buy-In and Commitment
Before you spend a lot of time developing a project idea, you need both buy-in and commitment from potential partners and from LCC
Buy-in is accepting an idea and, possibly, agreeing with it
Commitment is more emotionally impelled; both head and heart want to support or join something
The difference between the two might make all the difference in your success.
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6. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Generating a project idea: Getting started
Brainstorming
Questioning
Listing
Researching
Comparing
Mapping
Flow charting
Freewriting
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7. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Generating a project idea: Mind Mapping
Mind maps can be a very effective fist step in developing a project idea.
Through individual or group
brainstorming, maps can help
you generate, visualize,
structure, and classify ideas
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8. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Developing a project idea: Components
Project need
Who, what, why, how, where, when
Relation to LCC mission, values, strategic plan, Operation 100%, Division/Department priorities
Project delivery
Evaluation—who
Budget—what & why
Budget narrative/justification
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9. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Innovate by Adapting A project idea can be generated from— and should be supported by: A tested idea adapted for your project A theoretical or research construct that needs testing
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10. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Developing a project idea: Partners
Who needs to be involved?
Internal partners
External partners (inside and outside of LCC)
Meet with key partners to shape the project idea and build buy-in and commitment
Two approaches:
Starting with an established project idea
Starting with only a goal in mind
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11. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Developing a project idea:
Documentation
Gather information that supports project need:
Quantitative (LCC data, outside data, reports,
studies)
Qualitative (student, employee, and
community stories, questionnaires, surveys)
These can also help develop
your project evaluation plan
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12. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Developing a project idea:
Organizational Information
Relevant organizational information:
History—College & Department/Division overview
Specifics that apply to your project
Previous and existing programs
Staff and experience
Outside connections or involvement
Awards or other recognition
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13. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Group exercise:
Share your ideas for a project that would
provide a value-added service to students and
to the college
and/or
Brainstorm a project idea to use in these workshops
(You may want to have a facilitator, note taker, and time keeper for your group)
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14. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Why write a Case for Support?
Writing a Case for Support is a strategic
first step in developing a project idea that will
clearly meet the defined needs of project
participants and the organization.
It will also provide baseline information for writing a grant proposal.
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How might you use a Case for Support?
A complete and current Case for Support
can be quickly adapted to meet a specific
grant funder or potential donor’s interests and
requirements
It can also be used for Departmental
planning, in outreach materials, on your
website, and by LCC marketing
Your Case for Support should be reviewed and updated regularly
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16. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Developing a Case for Support
For your project idea:
What ideas/information do you already have?
What do you need to collect? (Create a list)
How will you collect it?
If working in a small group or partnership, who will collect what information?
If working on your own, how will you gather information?
Create a timeline and set a date for completion
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17. Developing a Case for Support
Helpful tip:
Stay grounded
in reality
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18. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
For Workshop 3:
Continue to develop your project idea
Begin preparing your Case for Support
Note any questions that surface as you’re working
Next week, bring a draft of what you’ve worked on
Also bring a list of successes and questions for discussion
Tuesday, April :30 am – 12:30 pm
UC 122
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19. Developing Your Grant Proposal Idea
Contact ERD and the LCC Foundation:
ERD
Jeanne Donado, Grant Development Coordinator
ext. 1307
Vivian Keeney, Grant System Coordinator
ext. 1581
LCC Foundation
Dan McKean, Executive Director, ext. 1987
Peggy Hellwig, Scholarship and Operations Coordinator, ext. 1989
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