Overview

Once we start drafting the final proposal/grant application, I will ask you to turn in a new section draft each week. Doing this will ensure that everybody is making good progress and will also allow us to do peer critique in class.

Which Section to Turn in Each Week

The organization of your final proposal/grant application will vary, depending on which foundation you’ll be applying to and what their requirements are. Therefore, it’s impossible to require everybody to turn in the situation section this week and the methods section the next week. Instead, it’s your call what section you add and turn in each week. Of course, if you can coordinate your section drafts with our discussion topics of each particular week, that would be great.

Organization

First of all, you should always keep all the sections in one file. Name this file “Final1(YourLastName).” As you progress each week, you keep adding new sections to the same file. Do NOT save each section as a separate file. Do NOT turn in a different file each week. Instead, you should be turning in your updated “Final1” file each week.Within the file, please follow this order of organization. Please note that each element should start a new page.

1. Cover page–This cover page should include the following elements: the title of the proposal/grant application, the foundation you’re submitting it to, the organization you’re representing, location, and date.
2. The foundation’s guidelines–This means the actual guidelines the foundation has published. You can simply copy and paste the guidelines. In some cases, the foundation may not have any guidelines. In that case, just have the foundation’s name on top as your heading. Then below it, indicate that the foundation doesn’t have any guidelines.
3. Your outline for the proposal/grant application–On the surface, this should really be the same as what’s specificed in the guidelines. In some situations, however, there will be differences. For example, your wording for each section heading might be slightly different. Sometimes, your order of organization may even be different, for a good reason.
4. Your sections–When you draft your final project, you may not necessarily follow the order of your outline. For example, you may decide to do the methods section first and go back to the situation section the next week. When you organize the sections, however, make sure they follow the order in your outline. In other words, the most recent section may not necessarily be the last section.

To Turn in

Just email me your updated “Final1” file. In your email, please indicate which section is your most recent section.