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To: Amy Ford From: Kelsey Kenel Subject: Proposal to research grant writing Date: November 17, 2010

Grant writing is a skill that teachers should have in order to strive to get supplies and money that the school they are working at may not have access to. There a so many grants out there, and with having the skills and tools to apply for those would be extremely beneficial. I have not yet been exposed to grand writing and really feel that it would come in handy for me as a future teacher.

Using this skill in a classroom with lower elementary students would also be beneficial in my opinion for many reasons. I feel that informing students on how to use an argument with supportive details at this age is very possible and beneficial. I have experienced this first hand in the first grade classroom in which I have my midtier. The students wrote about rules. These rules could be in the classroom, school, home, community, United States, world, etc. They had to think of a rule and explain, with supportive details why they thought it was fair or unfair. I also think that along with a written grant filled out by the teacher, having hand written letters by students would be effective. For example, if I was working in a low income school where there were no computers, the students could write letters to Bill Gates explaining why they feel having computers in our school would benefit them and why. This idea of grant writing could also implement a service learning project within the classroom. Students could be involved with the soup kitchen, Habitat for Humanity, etc. They could help them to provide their time and service, which is related to grants in asking for something that we may need. We could also help a family for the holidays by looking at families who are reaching out for help. Talking with the students as a group what family we should pick and why would reinforce the idea of supportive details. I feel that teaching young students these skills would help and encourage them to help and give them the skills to use argument using supportive details.

I have begun my research in looking at grant writing, how to write grants, where to find grants, and how to use grant writing in the classroom. So far I have found the following documents on the works cited page below. I have found some really great information including the topics I want to discover when researching grant writing.

Kelsey Kenel

 Bibliography 1. Websites on how to write a grant proposal Fritz, By Joanne. "Grant Proposals - How to Write a Grant Proposal." //Nonprofit//. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. . //Grants.gov//. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. . This website offers information about grant writing. It points out the important aspects when preparing and writing a grant for the purpose of fundraising. A clear format with directions on what to include in a grant proposal is laid out on this web page. Included with the directions is an example that can be viewed so the person who is writing a grant is able to really see what is being described through the directions.

"How to Write a Grant Proposals." //Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World//. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. . This website also offers information about grant writing. There are guidelines in which to follow when writing different types of grants that are included on this page. The information on this website, provides insight through different organizations that offer grants, a short explanation in grant writing, suggestions on how to write grants, and the research that needs to be done in order to write a grant.

2. Websites on where to find grants "I'm a Teacher Grants." // TeachersCount //. Web. 28 Nov. 2010. . This website is sectioned off into subjects of grants that teachers can apply for to use in their classroom. After picking a subject by clicking on one, the web page directs the viewer to many grants that can be applied for. The amount of money, deadline, what the grant is, information about the grant, and qualifications is described for each of these grants. This is a helpful website in searching for grants that are attached to certain subjects in school.

"K-12 Grants K12 Grants." // Technology Grant News Technology Grants //. Web. 28 Nov. 2010. . This website includes grants across many areas, not just for school teacher. It also includes grants for cities, corporate, federal, nonprofit, and many more. After clicking on the K-12 grants, the website directs the viewing to many grants for this subject area. The grants are listed in order to when the closest deadline is. The website is given to direct the viewer to the “grants” website. Information about each grant is listed along with a deadline. This website includes information, news, and tips on grant writing. Personal stories are also under some of these grants listed, explaining why they earned the grant, giving the viewer a personal connection or example of who was awarded that grant in the past.

3. Interviews from successful grant writers Malotka, Kathy. "Writing Grants for Your Classroom." Personal interview. 28 Nov. 2010. Kathy Malotka is a middle school math teacher who has been teaching in the City of Saginaw for many years. She has written many grants throughout her teaching career and has been extremely successful in being awarded money for her classroom. this interview describes her experiences with grant writing as she offers tips, personal experiences, and examples of grants she has been awarded.    ** Journal for Grant Writing  ** I wrote my grant proposal and emailed it to Amy Ford (professor). I also started looking at websites that offered information about grants. This was the start of my learning the unfamiliar genre that I chose to research. I went back to the websites that I had viewed previously and were documented in my works cited page. I read through the websites and learned a lot about different aspects of grants. I was able to write paragraphs about these websites and therefore made my bibliography page. I interviewed Kathy Malotka, a middle school teacher from Saginaw, MI. She has worked as a middle school math teacher for many years and has written many grants throughout her experience. She gave me tips, a few personal stories, and how she came to write grants. I looked through my materials again to refresh my memory and to learn more about grant writing. I feel that with the information I learned from the websites and the interview, I have the information that I need to start writing my first grant. I looked at a few different locations of where to find grants and decided to use a source that Kathy Malotka gave me that she has used in the past, The Saginaw Community Foundation. I viewed this organization at their website online, and started to draft in my mind what my grant was going to entail. I pulled the grant documents up again from The Saginaw Community Foundation. I read through the whole document and began to fill it out. I only was able to work on this for a short period of time.
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