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Grant Writing Demystified Wyoming Library Association August 9, 2019 Cheyenne, WY Presenter: Susan Mark Wyoming State Library Outreach Librarian susan.mark@wyo.gov (307) 777 5915 (Bear not included.) Proposal Project as in kittens,

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Grant Writing Demystified

Wyoming Library Association August 9, 2019  Cheyenne, WY

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Susan Mark Wyoming State Library Outreach Librarian susan.mark@wyo.gov (307) 777‐5915 (Bear not included.)

Presenter:

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Proposal

Project

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… as in kittens, not as in beer

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Wrong way:

Need  Solution  Funding Funding  Project

Right way:

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Susan’s three rules:

  • 1. Make sense
  • 2. Follow directions
  • 3. Communicate
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Elements of a grant proposal: Summary – write LAST 1. Introduction

  • 2. Need statement
  • 3. Program objectives

From The Grantsmanship Center

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Elements of a grant proposal:

  • 4. Methods
  • 5. Evaluation
  • 6. Future funding
  • 7. Budget

From The Grantsmanship Center

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Intro = YOU

Image: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946‐ Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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Introduction

  • Who you are
  • Past successes
  • Why are you the PERFECT
  • rganization to tackle the

problem?

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Need= PROBLEM

Goshen County Library Wyoming Snapshot Day 2019

Pro tip: It’s not about you.

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Need statement

  • Compelling: “So what?”
  • Detailed and specific
  • Both hard and soft data
  • Beneficiary‐focused
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Nana nana nana nana STATMAN:

Thomas Ivie, WSL Research & Statistics Librarian thomas.ivie@wyo.gov  (307) 777‐6330

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Objectives = CHANGE

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Objectives

  • Are not methods
  • Stated in terms of

beneficiaries

  • SMART
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Laramie County Library System Wyoming Snapshot Day 2019

Methods = TASKS

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Methods

  • What will you do?
  • Who will do it?
  • What resources are

needed?

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Evaluation: TESTING

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Evaluation

  • Did it work?
  • How do we know?
  • Speaks to objectives
  • Is for YOU
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Future Funding: SUSTAINABILITY

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Future funding

  • One‐time project?
  • Individual fundraising?
  • Absorb into budget?
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Budget: RESOURCES

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Budget

  • Matches methods
  • Cash and in‐kind
  • Ask for enough
  • CHECK NUMBERS!
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Summary = ELEVATOR SPEECH

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Summary

  • Brief
  • Compelling story
  • Touches on credibility,

problem, objectives, methods, cost

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Convince them:

PEOPLE in our community NEED something. We have a PLAN and are the PERFECT

  • rganization to fix this if
  • nly we had the FUNDS.
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Supplemental materials

  • 501(c)3 letter for

Friends or Foundation

  • Financials
  • Key personnel
  • Letters of support
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Letters of support

vs.

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PROOFREAD!

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Would the average person understand it?

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You got it! (Or didn’t…)

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