Below you will find the Powerpoint presentation presented in the workshop:
April 26, 2007: Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
Feburary 29, 2008 : Scholarship Resources
July 10, 2008: United Urban Indian Council: Student Tour
The information included in the grey areas are to assit you in locating resources for grants and scholarships; developing and formatting your proposals; and finding up-to date funding opportunities. If you have any questions regarding anything on this page please don't hesitate to contact me.
Please keep in mind that these websites discuss resources, techniques, and policies not used at the Al Harris Library.
I have included a short defintion of various grants to aid you in your research.
Grants: Award of money or direct assistance to perform an activity or projects whose outcome is seen as less certain than that from a contract, with expected results described in general terms. Application can be submitted without having been solicited (unsolicited proposal) or through a program announcement (Request for Application or RFA). Most federal grants fall into the following categories.
• Competitive Grants: awarded for specific types of research, demonstration, training, service to program participants, etc.
• Entitlement or Noncompetitive Grants: awarded automatically or based on a minimum "proposal" on the basis of legally defined formula to all agencies or institutions that qualify (state, medical schools, etc.). These are sometimes called formula grants when given to governmental agencies for distribution and monitoring under a state plan or state grant process.
• Formula Grants: awarded by federal agencies on the basis of a set formula such as so many dollars for population, per capita income, or enrollment.
• Block Grants: sometimes called “bloc” grants; refers to grants in which the federal government merely stipulates in broad terms how the state and local government should spend federal aid. The tactical decision on where the money should be spent is left to the discretion of the recipients.
• Categorical Grants: a restrictive version of the block
grant; categorical grants are designated to serve only a specific group (category)
specified in the enabling legislation.
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