Grant project: Potential Funders

Identifying Potential Funders to fund your Grant Proposal is an important step in the grant writing process. Effective research must be done to identify Grant Makers that provide the best possible match for both the mission and programs of the organization. By now, your Grant Proposal is written with final touches included. You are now ready for the work of identifying potential Grant Maker suitors using the Foundation DirectoryOnline. The Foundation Directory Online gives you data access to 10,000 possible Grant Makers. The university provides access to the Foundation Directory Online through the Jerry Falwell Library Databases. If you have been surfing their website to acquaint yourself with the different tools and reviewed their tutorials, you should be ready for this assignment. Obviously, if you are having difficulty, contact them. As a subscriber, they will answer questions to assist your efforts. Instructions The assignment is to find 5 potential Grant Makers for your Grant Proposal. When youve found the 5, you then rank them based on your belief of successful funding probability. Provide your reasoning for choosing them and why you ranked them 15. As an attachment to your narrative, you should include copies of their Profiles, printed from the Foundation Directory Online website. These Profiles need to show the 7 critical items mentioned in the presentation, Watch: Identifying Potential Foundations for Funding. Use the Foundation Directory Online to find 5 potential Grant Makers for your Grant Proposal. To access the Foundation Directory Online, use the link provided in the Learn section of the assigned Module: Week. After finding the 5 potential Grant Makers, you will then rank them based on your belief of successful funding probability. Provide your reasoning for choosing them and why you ranked them 15. As an attachment to your narrative, you shouldinclude copies of their Profiles, printed from the Foundation Directory Online website and uploaded as a pdf under the assignment submission link. These Profiles need to highlightthe 7 critical items mentioned in the presentation. Refer to TheWinston-Salem Foundation Profile for an example. This can be found under Grant Project: Potential Funders Resourceslocated on the Grant Project: Potential Funders Assignmentpage. Length of the assignment: 2-page word document providing a rationale for ranking the potential funders from 1-5. The length of each of the 5 highlighted attached profiles will differ. Include a title page and reference page. Format of Assignment: Use current APA style. Number of Citations: Use at least 1 supplementary source. Acceptable Sources: Use current data and references published within the last 5 years. In order to complete this assignment, you will need to access the Jerry Falwell Library Database. I provided you with the link for this with last week’s assignment. You should be familiar with how to access the library since you did so in order to find a funder to address your cover letter to for the assignment. In this week’s Learn Folder you will see the same video you watched last week on how to access the Foundation Directory Online. You can find a foundation through the Foundation Directory Online. This can be accessed through the Jerry Falwell Library Database. Here is a tutorial I shared last week on how to access the Library database and the Foundation Directory Online: . Identifying a potential funder is a very time-consuming process, but most grant seekers determine that it is well worth the effort. The objective of funding your research is to find funders who have the same interests and values in your organization. Download each Foundation profile from the Foundation Directory Online (I have attached a sample Foundation profile – it is also provided with this week’s material in the assignment instructions), save as a pdf file, highlight the 7 critical areas as shown in the attached sample, then upload in the system. Highlight the areas that align with your organizations needs. So, I should see 6 separate items uploaded in the system: the word document with your ranking and rationale and the 5 highlighted profiles in pdf. Do not include a link to the profile site inside of the Word document as I will not be able to open it. Also, you are NOT permitted to retype this information into a word document. However, you may copy and paste the full highlighted profiles into a Word document. Please provide a solid rationale for why you chose and ranked each funder/foundation, showing the distinction among the funders.