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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,


  1. Grant Writing Demystified Wyoming Library Association August 9, 2019  Cheyenne, WY

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

  3. Proposal Project

  4. … as in kittens, not as in beer

  5. Wrong way: Funding  Project Right way: Need  Solution  Funding

  6. Susan’s three rules: 1. Make sense 2. Follow directions 3. Communicate

  7. Elements of a grant proposal: Summary – write LAST 1. Introduction 2. Need statement 3. Program objectives From The Grantsmanship Center

  8. Elements of a grant proposal: 4. Methods 5. Evaluation 6. Future funding 7. Budget From The Grantsmanship Center

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

  10. Introduction • Who you are • Past successes • Why are you the PERFECT organization to tackle the problem?

  11. Need= PROBLEM Pro tip: It’s not about you. Goshen County Library Wyoming Snapshot Day 2019

  12. Need statement • Compelling: “So what?” • Detailed and specific • Both hard and soft data • Beneficiary ‐ focused

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

  14. Objectives = CHANGE

  15. Objectives • Are not methods • Stated in terms of beneficiaries • SMART

  16. Methods = TASKS Laramie County Library System Wyoming Snapshot Day 2019

  17. Methods • What will you do? • Who will do it? • What resources are needed?

  18. Evaluation: TESTING

  19. Evaluation • Did it work? • How do we know? • Speaks to objectives • Is for YOU

  20. Future Funding: SUSTAINABILITY

  21. Future funding • One ‐ time project? • Individual fundraising? • Absorb into budget?

  22. Budget: RESOURCES

  23. Budget • Matches methods • Cash and in ‐ kind • Ask for enough • CHECK NUMBERS!

  24. Summary = ELEVATOR SPEECH

  25. Summary • Brief • Compelling story • Touches on credibility, problem, objectives, methods, cost

  26. Convince them: PEOPLE in our community NEED something. We have a PLAN and are the PERFECT organization to fix this if only we had the FUNDS.

  27. Supplemental materials • 501(c)3 letter for Friends or Foundation • Financials • Key personnel • Letters of support

  28. Letters of support vs.

  29. PROOFREAD!

  30. Would the average person understand it?

  31. You got it! (Or didn’t…)

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