1. Advancing Grant Readiness
Julie Assel, GPC
President/CEO
Assel Grant Services
Hello, I’m Julie Assel with Assel Grant Services and welcome to Advancing Grant Readiness.
How many of you have been asked by your organization: are we really grant ready?
How many of you have been asked to write grants for your organization, but as you looked at the organization, you questioned whether you really were ready to handle the requirements of funders and their restricted dollars?
So let’s explore what it really means to be grant ready. The good news is that there are many levels of grant readiness, and the bad news is that there are many levels of grant readiness. For example, just because you are receiving foundation grants, doesn’t necessarily mean you are ready for federal grants, but you might be……
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2. Organizational Development
Strategic Plan
Need Data
Partnerships
Strategies for Faculty Engagement
Common Federal Grant Opportunities
Literature Review
Evaluation Data
Budgets
Capacity

3. Strategic Plan Institutional Priorities Institutional Challenges
Retention
Growth in particular majors
Growth in particular populations

4. Need Data
Data is King
Know the data behind every institutional challenge
Know the data behind every institutional priority
Know the data in your community
Institutional Research

5. Partnerships with your community
Partners between leaders
Partners at the department level
Partners at the development level
Partners with school districts
Partners with industry
Partners with community

6. Strategies for Faculty Engagement
Administrative Support
Department Support
Release Time/Overload Contracts
Indirect Cost
Coffee and Conversation
Upcoming Deadlines

7. Common Federal Grant Opportunities
Department of Education
Student Aid
Student Support
Pipeline
National Science Foundation
STEM Scholarships and Retention
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
Health Resources and Services Administration
Workforce Development – Nursing, Behavioral Health
Department of Justice
Campus Safety

8. Literature Review Plan from previous RFPs
Connect with relevant faculty
What are your faculty experts in-knowledge
What can your faculty do?
Determine what you know and what you don’t know
Options for evidence-based or research-based programming
Similar populations
How are you unique

9. Evaluation Data Internal vs. External Evaluation
Institutional Research
External Evaluator
Educational Researcher

10. Budgets Institutional Expectations Salary and benefit costs
Indirect Cost
Institutional Costs
Resource Development, Finance, Department, PI costs
Grant Manager

11. Capacity What is your capacity Ways to grow capacity Facilitating
Writing
Submitting
Managing
Implementing
Evaluating
Ways to grow capacity
Hiring
Contracting

12. Competencies Knowledge of Organizational Development (2)
Knowledge of Strategies for Effective Program and Project Design and Development (3)
Knowledge of How to Research, Identify, and match funding resources to meet specific needs (1)
Knowledge of How to Craft, Construct, and Submit and Effective Grant Application (4)
Knowledge of Post-Award Management Practices (5)
Knowledge of Nationally Recognized Standards of Ethical Practice (6)
Knowledge of Practices and Services to Raise Professionalism (7)
Knowledge of Methods to Cultivate and Maintain Relationships (8)
Ability to Write a Convincing Case for Funding (9)
GPCI:
Today, we have talk about two of the core competencies included in the Grant Professional’s Certification Exam. The other 7 are also listed above. If you are interested in learning more about this credential, feel free to stop by our table to talk with us about it. My colleague, Julie Alsup and I, are both credential grant professionals, with a lot of experience working with institutions of higher education of various sizes.

13. Questions?
So what questions do you have about grant readiness today?

14. Questions? Contact Us and Connect!
Julie Assel, GPC
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Services
Feel free to give us a call if you have questions about grant readiness or would like to learn more about how the services we provide that could help your organization now or in the future. We offer grant opportunity research, case statement development, grant calendar development, and grant writing on a one-time, interim, and full-time basis. We also offer capacity building support and training.
Check out our website for additional grant training!