1. Fueling the Future Through Grant Funded Partnerships

2. BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE: The College of Choice
Fast Facts
College of Choice for Southern Brazoria County for 50 years now, where Dr. Millicent Valek has been President for more than 2 decades
CBIT serves about 20,000 people a year in business training
Recognized twice by the Aspen Institute as one of the nation’s top 10 community colleges
Community Education serves about 4,000 students per year in a variety of career & lifestyle courses
Brazosport College offers more than 75 degree and certificate programs, and is now one of four schools in Texas to offer a Bachelor of Applied Technology
We are unique because of the strong synergy that exists between the college and its industry partners
4222 students enrolled
~1300 unduplicated non credit student (15K duplicated)
How many of you have had an organizational grant?
Successful grant
Grant that bombed?
How many have conducted the process in entirety? (written it, managed it and evaluated it)

3. GRANTS: Where Do You Look?
Government Resources
www. twc.texas.gov/about-texas-workforce
Private Organizations
Dollar General-dgiteracy.org
GuideStar-
National Science Foundation Source:
Other
Grant Writer

4. What About Resources? Meat: Internal/External Support Roux: Capacity
Seasoning: Outreach Capabilities
Meat:
Internal Support- Your departmental administration, Worker Bees (staff, finance dept., grant manager,
External Support- Partner’s decision makers, worker bees,
Roux:
Staffing Model: You cannot do this alone, you will need others to be successful
Infrastructure/Facilities: classrooms, where will training happen
Financial system: handle payments, budgeting, etc.
Seasoning:
Marketing Team/Person
How are partners going to be notified and found
FUNDING AGENCIES WILL WANT TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE
CAPABLE OF SEEING THE GRANT THROUGH
APPLICATION**** IMPLEMENTATION**** EVALUATION

5. Top 4 Grant Killers No trust from industry
Education/Industry disconnect
C-Suite awareness & Buy- in
Easy Outs

6. Is It Really Worth It Goals: Costs: Benefits: Relationship building
Financial gain
Serving and improving the community
Costs:
Grants are a lot of work!
Grants require significant start up funds, time, effort, commitment, & human capital
Reporting, monitoring, audit-ready
Benefits:
Grants help to serve the community in ways that you may not be able to otherwise=WIN/WIN!
Grants build capacity
Grants provide funding that may support additional resources needed to operate

8. Where Do You Look?
Resources Needed
Is it
Worth It?
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9. WIOA FUNDING for Adult Education & Literacy
The Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) program at Brazosport College is funded by a grant from the Texas Workforce Commission via Department of Labor WIOA funds.
We offer three services within our AEL Program
HSE (formerly GED)
ESL
Career Pathways

10. Students improve English, obtain GED, go to work
Education/Workforce
BC AEL=HSE, ESL, IET
Consortium members
By providing these services, we have a more literate, and prepared regional workforce which =Thriving communities
TWC/HGAC
Students improve English, obtain GED, go to work
USDOE

11. Outreach & Identifying Partners
Word-of-Mouth is still the best way to get the word out!
Social Media
Other resources include: Existing community partners’ referrals, local businesses, non-profit organizations, local school districts, the United Way, local Chambers of Commerce, College’s internal announcement process, fliers, Marketing Department

12. Challenges & Successes
Turnover
Growth
Sustainable Funding
The right staff
Successes
Changing lives for the good
Departmental Growth
Increased Capacity

13. Skills Development Fund Texas Workforce Commission
A Texas public community college or technical college applies for the grant in partnership with a business, business consortium or trade union which provides:
Customized training and curriculum development
Up to $500K per business
Training for full-time employees
Target average cost per trainee of $1,800

14. Outreach * Outreach * Outreach
Partnership Building
Word-of-Mouth is still the best way to get the word out!
Success speaks for itself!!

15. CHALLENGES Continued Enthusiasm Privacy
Turnover among leaders/employees
Meeting Program Objectives
Enthusiasm: Time wears them out…………..You have to have “the hype men”
Protect the partnership:

16. SUCCESSES $~7 Million in Training Funds
Building Relationship/Trust with Industry Partners
Making lives better
Increased Capacity (Equipment/Curriculum)
Relationship is a MUST
Protect the partnership at all times