Where do you send a completed grant?

[Patricia Sanabria]

I'm an elementary school (K-5) librarian. I've been working on writing my grant and have finished it but I'm at a wall now because I don't know who or where to submit it. Is there anyone who has some suggestions??? Also, I live in New York City and I work for the NYC Board of Education.

Thanks,
Pat

[Julie Ahern]

I just received a $2,000 grant for Kindles from Target. Although the submission cycle doesn't start till next year, keep that in mind in case you don't find another source. Good luck!

[Patricia Sanabria]

Dear Julie,
Thank you so much for the information. I will keep this in mind if I can't find another source. Once again thank you.
Pat

[Julie Ahern]

Grantsalert.org lists a lot of grant opportunities for education. Also, sign up for the PBS Teacher newsletter, they have a grant section. When I think of more I'll post them. :-D

[Julie Ahern]

Sorry for the delay in answering! You know what that first week of school is like!!

I don't have an electronic copy of the Target grant but I did run off a hard copy for my records before I hit submit. Can I email you from this board? I can transcribe some of the questions/responses to give you an idea of the proposal. Let me know :-D I'm waiting for the Kindles to come in to our local Target so I can go shipping! Can't wait to get them into the hands of the students.

[Patricia Sanabria]

Dear Louise,
Sorry for the delay but setting up and getting ready for classes has been a long process this year. We just put in a new library system so everything is a little scattered. I will try to cut and paste my proposal points for my grant. I had been told to at least have a basic outline and then tailor it to fit what each grant specifically asks for. Hope this works.




First Draft for Kindle Proposal:

1. will address the issue of differentiated learning styles especially with our population of children with varied needs and learning styles and with our CTT classes growing each year
2. change of font ( adjustable font size has been proven to be a major advantage for struggling readers)
“crowding” (the difficulty in identifying a letter embedded in other letters) in studies has shown that it impacts on the reading rates; the larger font size creates more space between adjacent letters in the text and will increase line spacing as well, reducing crowding.
3. can respond to questions as they read right on the Kindle
4. unknown vocabulary words can be immediately accessed
5. encourage them to read via a new mode, electronically!
6. less expensive then purchasing paperbacks (can download 6 books for the price of one.)
7. has audio support; while the Kindle text to speech is far from perfect, it would help a great many children who just can't decode the text,
8. the ability to participate in assisted reading, listening to audio books, would allow a struggling population to engage in book discussions that their peers, on a more difficult reading level, are engaged in.
9. hopefully will generate a new group of readers
10. downloading PDF files (end Xeroxing of chapters from various books)

Hope that this helps.

Pat




Louise Colette Leonard said:

Is there any way we could see a copy of your proposal? I'm totally clueless for figuring out how to write these up. Thanks so much!

[Patricia Sanabria]

Dear Julie,
Please, don't worry about the delay. I think we are all in the same boat at this time of the year. You can email me from this board. I just did a cut and paste. When I tried to upload a file it didn't work as well. What ever you can do will be helpful.
Thank you once again,
Pat

Julie Ahern said:

Sorry for the delay in answering! You know what that first week of school is like!!
I don't have an electronic copy of the Target grant but I did run off a hard copy for my records before I hit submit. Can I email you from this board? I can transcribe some of the questions/responses to give you an idea of the proposal. Let me know :-D I'm waiting for the Kindles to come in to our local Target so I can go shipping! Can't wait to get them into the hands of the students.