©: Evelyn
Daniel Revised 6/11/2001.
|
LIS 450RRL: GRANTWRITING AND FUNDRAISINGSyllabusSummer 2001
NOTE: If you are signed up as a student in this course, please go to Student Information Form, fill it out and send it to me. Thanks.Objectives of the Course. Students, upon completion of the course, will be able to: |
Approach
grant seeking,
proposal writing, and fundraising positively and confidently, Identify and approach funding sources, Draft an effective fund raising letter incorporating all the components of a good letter proposal. Produce an elaborated proposal with introduction, problem statement, objectives, proposed activities, an evaluation plan, a dissemination plan and a justified budget. Critique a colleague's proposal for logical consistency and match to target funder's interest and provide suggestions for improvement. Point out the similarities and differences between grantwriting and fundraising. Develop effective and efficient collaborative skills in working with a partner (or partners) in a virtual environment.
|
Textbooks, Readings and Useful Websites. The two
required
textbooks for the class are:
Miner, Lynn E., Jeremy T. Miner and Jerry Griffith Proposal Planning & Writing 2nd Oryx Press, 1998.A bibliography of other print sources is also provided. Please also see Funding sources for links to a variety of useful Internet pages.
Assignment Overview. Students may take the course for either 1/2 or 1 unit. Differing requirements are as follows:
Grading. Grading will be based on the following weights:
Criteria for evaluating the final proposal (for those taking the course for one credit) includes:
For 1/2 credit folks, these criteria will be applied as appropriate to the letter proposal or fundraising plan. Incompletes: A grade of incomplete may be taken only because of illness or special circumstances and only with the prior permission of the instructor.
Technological Tools. We will be using the LEEP technological tools. I have made a website of material for the 450 Grantwriting course on my home system (http://ils.unc.edu/daniel/450/) but I will also link pages to the LEEP class space and use that space for all the interactive components of the class: the live web tour, the class webboard. The archives for audio and chat sessions will be posted there as well. Readings for the class that have been designated as reserve readings -- either required or highly recommended will be converted by the library staff to electronic files, which will be linked from the LIS Library Gateway page. You will need a password to access the site and the resources. Passwords are assigned and maintained by the LEEP staff. Because the class is project based, I do not foresee a lot of class-assigned outside reading. Your textbooks should provide most of the background material you will need. The reading list is for your use once the course is completed and you have more time to explore some of the finer details or alternative approaches. You will be working interactively with a group of your classmates (grouped by common interests insofar as possible) and one (or possibly two) team mates. Your collaborative work will be produced as .html web pages using SiteEdit. It will be helpful to read (or re-read) all the helpful hints, FAQs, etc. provided at Site Edit in the HTML work zone. We will use the LEEP Bulletin Board designated for the class for discussion and group critiques. In addition to these asynchronous tools, we will also need to meet simultaneously a number of times through the semester. See the schedule for a tentative schedule of times for such meetings. Of course in addition to these fancy LEEP tools, we will be able to email each other as frequently as you wish. With the exception of one week in July, I should be able to respond to your individual email messages with 24 hour turnaround.
If you have any comments or questions on any aspect of the syllabus, please contact Evelyn Daniel |