Writing Successful Grant Proposals
May 14th, 2010 rachelWriting Successful Grant Proposals
June 1 – 30, 2010
$250 (Simmons GSLIS Alumni price $200)
In this course you will write an actual grant proposal. If you already have a basic understanding of the grant process and you are ready to get to work on writing a proposal to fund your library project, this course is for you. This course will cover the basic proposal components: project summary or abstract; organizational overview; statement of need; project description; budget; timeline; evaluation; and supporting materials or appendix. You will learn how to write these proposal components for a model project, and for the final assignment students will prepare an actual proposal for their own library project that the instructor will review.
Instructor: Pamela MacKellar is the author of The Accidental Librarian(Information Today, Inc., 2008) and coauthor of Grants for Libraries: a How-To-Do-It Manual (Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006) and the Library Grants Blog. Recently she coauthored Winning Grants: A Multimedia How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, forthcoming from Neal-Schuman Publishers in 2010. Pam has taught classes and workshops on grants for libraries and non-profits; written successful proposals for government, foundation and association grants; administered grant projects; and reviewed grant proposals for federal and state agencies. She recently won the 2010 Loleta D. Fyan Grant from the American Library Association in partnership with the New Mexico State Library for the project, “Online Management Course for New Library Directors in New Mexico”. Pam has over 25 years’ experience as a librarian primarily in small, rural, public and tribal libraries, and small special libraries. Contact Pam at pmackellar182@gmail.com.