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NC State Uses CoLAB Workshops to Inspire Interdisciplinary Research Grants
Caption for feature image (above) Idea Table Café participants and their specific ideas.In October 2023, North Carolina State University’s College of Education faculty and administrators engaged in a series of Collaborating with Strangers (CoLAB) Workshops. Their goal...
The Harmful Misplaced Concerns Over Sharing Grant Proposals—Especially for Libraries and Museums
This article was updated from the December 2023 original post. While working at the University of Florida (UF) Libraries from 2009 to 2022, I authored and co-authored hundreds of grant applications for submission to local, regional, national, and international...
The Quality of the Grant Application Container
Let’s say you have found a funder’s grant opportunity that is a good match for the project you have in mind. You download the application guidelines or NOFO (notification of funding opportunity) and now you are ready to begin preparing the contents of your...
Not Knowing How to Work with People You Don’t Know
After reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Talking to Strangers—What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know—I thought it might be helpful to look at this issue in a more positive light. Gladwell shares a series of horrifying stories that resulted from not having...
Using Asset-based Community Development in Grantseeking
Grant reviewers and funding agencies see their work as making sound investments in projects that will mobilize existing assets to meet community needs or solve community problems. They are cautious to assess the level of investment by partners and the applicant...