Grant Project: Potential Funders Assignment Instructions
Overview
Identifying Potential Funders to fund your Grant Proposal is an important step in the grant writing process. Effective research must be done to identify Grant Makers that provide the best possible match for both the mission and programs of the organization. By now, your Grant Proposal is written with final touches included. You are now ready for the work of identifying potential Grant Maker suitors using the Foundation Directory Online. The Foundation Directory Online gives you data access to 10,000 possible Grant Makers. The university provides access to the Foundation Directory Online through the Jerry Falwell Library Databases. If you have been “surfing” their website to acquaint yourself with the different tools and reviewed their tutorials, you should be ready for this assignment. Obviously, if you are having difficulty, contact them. As a subscriber, they will answer questions to assist your efforts.
Instructions
The assignment is to find 5 potential Grant Makers for your Grant Proposal. When you’ve found the 5, you then rank them based on your belief of successful funding probability. Provide your reasoning for choosing them and why you ranked them 1–5.
As an attachment to your narrative, you should include copies of their “Profiles”, printed from the Foundation Directory Online website. These “Profiles” need to show the 7 critical items mentioned in the presentation, “Watch: Identifying Potential Foundations for Funding.”
Use the Foundation Directory Online to find 5 potential Grant Makers for your Grant Proposal. To access the Foundation Directory Online, use the link provided in the Learn section of the assigned Module: Week.
After finding the 5 potential Grant Makers, you will then rank them based on your belief of successful funding probability. Provide your reasoning for choosing them and why you ranked them 1–5. As an attachment to your narrative, you should include copies of their “Profiles”, printed from the Foundation Directory Online website and uploaded as a pdf under the assignment submission link.
These “Profiles” need to highlight the 7 critical items mentioned in the presentation. Refer to The Winston-Salem Foundation Profile for an example. This can be found under Grant Project: Potential Funders Resources located on the Grant Project: Potential Funders Assignment page.
Length of the assignment: 2-page word document providing a rationale for ranking the potential funders from 1-5. The length of each of the 5 highlighted attached profiles will differ. Include a title page and reference page.
Format of Assignment: Use current APA style.
Number of Citations: Use at least 1 supplementary source.
Acceptable Sources: Use current data and references published within the last 5 years.
