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Proposal Writing Short Course. Gathering Background Information The first thing you will need to do in writing your proposal is to gather the documentation for it. You will require background documentation in three areas: concept, program, and expenses. If all of this information is not readily available to you, determine who will help you gather each type of information. If you are part of a small nonprofit with no staff, a knowledgeable board member will be the logical choice.

If you are in a larger agency, there should be program and financial support staff who can help you. Once you know with whom to talk, identify the questions to ask. This data-gathering process makes the actual writing much easier. Concept It is important that you have a good sense of how the project fits with the philosophy and mission of your agency. Program Here is a check list of the program information you require:

Grant Applicants - Sample Application. Five Colleges Information Literacy Grants Public Information Page. NLG Project Planning: A Tutorial. News & Events - Press Releases. Grant Applicants - National Leadership Grants. National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG) support projects that address challenges faced by the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance practice in those fields. Successful proposals will generate results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend the benefits of federal investment. We anticipate two FY16 National Leadership Grants for Libraries funding opportunities with two separate deadlines.

In addition to the opportunity described in the above Notice of Funding Opportunity, an additional NLG funding opportunity is anticipated to be announced in December 2015 with an application submission due date in February 2016. For the NLG deadline, we encourage applications to address one of two agency priorities: National digital platform Learning in libraries We will also accept any applications that explore the following issues:

The Five Colleges of Ohio Information Literacy Grant Proposal. Iris42 / Grant Proposal. IRIS is a series of tutorials that was funded by a grant from the Distance Learning Council of Washington, 2007-2008. The idea behind the grant proposal was to create a series of information literacy learning objects for distance learning students. There are a couple of changes from the original proposal: Major software upgrades, staffing issues and a change from a table-layout to the currently acceptable box-model layout extensively lengthened the time needed to complete the project. The tutorial project was adopted as the sabbatical project for the lead coordinator, providing valuable extra working time. Like most projects, IRIS has taken on a life of it's own.

Following is the text from the original grant proposal Lead Institution: Shoreline Community College Partner Institutions: Clark College, Whatcom Community College Project Description: Development of three online interactive Information Literacy tutorials to be used across a broad range of disciplines. Amount Requested: $14,500. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)