Non-profit finding proposals

A response to the Like Driving a Car Activity
created by Jennifer Abrams (@jabrams)

Number of views: 150

I am currently teaching the basics of writing funding proposals for non-profit social service agencies. This is a 4th semester course and as such, there has been a great deal of build up to this project. If I try to use this analogy, there is a great deal of complex learning needed to be able to do consider such a task. These are listed in a order that I think is reasonably chronologic to skills development. Although 1-6 is ideally covered in high school and the first 3 semesters of college, I need to remember that I can teach 7 and 8 without 1-6. 1-6 can also be broken down in to many smaller levels of knowledge and skill development.

  1. Professional writing skills (this can be parsed down to numerous details)
  2. Budgeting skills
  3. Computer literacy (work, excel, filling form templates, creating accounts)
  4. Research skills (academic literature, grey sources,  funding sources)
  5. Knowledge of community services (general and specific)
  6. Knowledge of community programs (general and specific)
  7. Industry standards for proposals (format, deadlines, contents etc.. )
  8. Writing a non-profit funding proposal.