Today’s Plan:
- Grant Research
- Group Work
- Homework
Grant Research
In preparation for today you have identified an organization from the CRC database and grabbed some key information. Today we are going to share that information and expand our research.
I wanted to present some research I did yesterday with Carl McDonald, who is serving as an intern grant writer for Impact. Carl and I looked for potential funding for a new program called Hike, which takes homeless children hiking and provides them with new shoes and backpacks.
Carl identified two organizations:
Homework
One of the challenges of this particular project is tracking work hours. Many of you are working in collaborative situations and I want to ensure that everyone commits an equal (or, at least, almost equal) amount of time and energy. One way I do that is with a group dynamics postmortem at the close of the project.
But I don’t want to wait until the end of the project to ensure healthy collaboration. So let’s track contributions.
For Friday, here’s what I would like from every group:
- Grant Writing: everyone in the group should add two additional organizations to the spreadsheet. No repeats. In addition to the CRC tool, you might try searching in the SPIN database (also on the library website)
- Social Media: I’m thinking of developing the follower list as a two part process. First, we need a list of potential organizations. Then, we need to check how many of those organizations have an Instagram account. So let’s get that first part done. 8 organizations per person (there were zero in the chart as of Tuesday at 2:30)
- Promotions: I have our teacher packets. Let’s talk.
