1. In searching for a grant, several factors need
to be considered. Let me further explain
this by comparing searching for a grant to searching for a romantic
partner. When you sign up online for a
dating website, you must consider that not everyone will want to be with you. Each online candidate has specific desires
and agendas as to what they prefer.
Potential grant givers are similar to this. Grant sites are not abundant givers, they too
are searching for just that special someone who can add to their agendas. Grant givers want to know that what they are
giving will have a return of benefit. In
other words, does your grant support me, my goal, my vision, and my dreams? Will your grant add to the overall view of my
corporation or self? Similarly, a potential
partner may think the same. Therefore,
the grant I write, or the person I am, must fall into vision and appeal to the
potential gift giver.
To further this analogy, correct timing plays a
vital role into both roles. Grant givers
have deadlines, commitments, and expectations to reach. A potential soul mate is the same. To be effective in both dating and grant
writing you must have excellent communication and timing. Most respectable people should expect
reasonable execution of timing towards responding to and providing sufficient evidence
of how one will benefit them. Grant
givers may be a little stricter in deadlines and have no lenience in late
communication. As all individuals are on
trial during the dating period, a grant proposal is also on trial. Bad profiles may need to be re-written to
appeal to the potential date as a bad proposal may need to be re-written to
appeal to the grant gift giver. Grant givers,
like any potential companion want to know that you will be grateful for their
time, efforts, and offerings. An
expression of gratitude will go a long way to making the grant giver feel good,
just as a flower may make your date feel special. The more one puts effort into reaching out in
gratitude, the greater one will look to the giver. Attitude is everything, in all
situations. If at first you don’t succeed,
try, try, and try again. Oh, and don’t
go psycho if you’re rejected, no grant company likes a stalker either.
Therefore, we can see that grant givers look
for the same things as potential partners.
They seek a person whose goals and visions line up to theirs. They are looking for someone whose financial
needs are similar and within range. A
strong commitment to communication, deadlines, and timelines are strong
factors. Thus, the presenter must
present themselves as favorable, available, and grateful. We could all learn a lot about relationships
from grant writing. There is never a
reason to take advantage of the gifts we are given and if we don’t try to reach
out, there will be no benefit. Love is
within reach and so is thousands of dollars.
2. I believe I have always had confidence
to do whatever I wanted. Why think
anything less than this? I can do
anything I put my mind up to and this beautiful Universe will support me in the
good that I do for myself and others.
That is what I believe, anyways.
What this assignment did was get me to search for potential funding
sources. As I was only aware of one
source, I realized that there are many sources and like dating, you've got to
try and put effort into applying to gain the benefits. All things in life require work and effort to
improve. This is a simple answer, yes,
both confidence and encouragement have improved to seek for grants. I have learned many new things, such as how
to find potential sources and that they are like dating sites. They all are looking for something different
and specific. The impact is that I feel
more aware of what’s available. I feel like I have more power to get the things
that I need that the school won’t fund for me.
I’d likely go for smaller items on Donors Choose.
3. While I haven’t had the desire to write
up a grant, I wouldn't be opposed to it now.
Will I take this grant into action, the honest answer is no. I believe that my grant is quite expensive
and while IPad's would be an excellent tool for my students, I believe I will
start smaller. There is an abundance of
technology resources available on the computer that I am just learning to
implement. Therefore my direction as of
now is to get technology tools that are free and available first and learn how
to implement them effectively into my teaching. I also want to increase my
ability to use green screening in my school.
I will add that if my school doesn't invest next year in a good camera
and tripod stand, I’ll write a grant for that.
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