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Tips on Grant Writing Secondary Reading Interest Council, MRA on February 19, 2013 Basic steps of grant writing Agree on a problem that has a positive and measurable affect on your school or community. Describe outcomes. Design your program as the best path to the outcomes. Locate funding sources. Learn about the process and time required. Tailor your proposal to each possible funding source. Agree on a problem that has a positive and measurable affect on your school or community. Involve all stakeholders. Define the problem. (Involve stakeholders.) Describe the problem’s impact. (Show how it has affected the way people live.) Investigate the problem’s possible causes. (Seek formal agreement with as many stakeholders as possible.) 2. Describe outcomes. Identify key outcomes, changes that result from your program’s activities. Work with stakeholders to determine 2 or 3 key outcomes. Set realistic outcomes Set achievable outcomes. Identity outputs, measures of the program’s activities. Set output measurements Set output measurement timetable. 3. Design your program as the best path to the outcomes. Best is not always easiest, quickest, simplest, or cheapest. Get expert opinions from grant makers. Research what others have done, their failures and their successes. (similar organizations, professional journals, popular press, nearby college or university’s faculty) Get stakeholder buy-in and letters of support (time, money, labor, space, materials, and so forth). Clearly describe your situation with key stakeholders’ and experts’ assistance. 4. Locate funding sources. Learn about the process and time required. Start with organizations and people you know, then target your search by organizations who have gotten similar funding, then by geographic area. Use the Internet to search for several grant makers. Do you want to work with this organization? Does it typically fund organizations and projects like yours? Do you qualify for a particular program? Can you meet al