HOW TO WRITE A GRANT.....

Sogang International Summer College

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[MC10] (Course Code) INTERNATIONAL GRANT WRITING AND FUNDRAISING(Course Title)

Professor: Professor PHILLIP BALDWIN (Dep. Of THEATER AND MEDIA, STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY) (MY WORK:

My work is a joy. I work as a scenographer, Fundraiser and writer, a designer of immersive environments, a media artist for dance, theater and opera, and a professor and researcher
working on the connection between architecture and information. The classroom
of the future is my next piece of scenography going up at Sogang University in
Seoul and hopefully here at SB. My studio and life are Brooklyn based, and I have
been traveling to design telepresent environments in Korea. I also maintain partial
shares and active participation in a company that reviews and promotes apps for
smart phones. Augmented Reality for the smart phone where films and scripts are
inserted is a present project with ‘Apploaded’. I have a deep love of the way cities
and architecture convey information in plastic form, as well as how new projected
environments transform the urban setting. My Friday Stony Brook classes on the
Rome program will culminate in the projection of projects on the Roman Coliseum,
the Spanish Steps, or in the very busy Campo Di Fiori with thousands of people
attending. My work is a mix of related and often unrelated disciplines that that
culminate in hybrids or ‘mashups’ that has me lecturing here on the Stony Brook
campus as an Associate Professor on theories of media and the design of space.
For the final in all of my classes we ‘perform’ the interactive media, design, and
film projects in the famous immersive environment space in Brooklyn called
‘Monkeytown’. During the summer I have instructed ‘interpreting visual culture’
classes in the lobbies of hotels lecturing for the Stony Brook Rome program and I
have lived, worked, and taught in Singapore, South Korea, and Italy.

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⎫ E-Mail: PHILLIP.BALDWIN@GMAIL.COM
⎫ Class hours: Mon, Tue or Tue, Wed. (1:30-4:20) (Example – Administration will add this information)
⎫ Place & Class Room: Arrupe Hall 702 (Example – Administration will add this information)

Course Description (Course Description: Learn to research and write a grant proposal and/or prepare a white paper for a research grant that will result in funding for your organization or institution. You will learn research methods, the use of the www.COS.com site of available international funding, for locating those foundations or corporations that match your organization’s need, and you will learn how to write a proposal that is ready for submission. You have six mini-proposals to do and a final with budgets, possible funders, and a review board. In the end you will have written a proposal that can be submitted to a funding organization, or visual/verbal White Paper that could be submitted ‘in house’ of Sogang.
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Course Requirements & Grading
⎫ Required Course Materials
Texts and books
⎫ Grading (Example)
(1) Student reports : 40%
(2) Workshop Journal entries: 20%
(3) Final project: 30%
(4) Class Attendance: 10%

Work Schedule(June21-July31)

Course Requirements: Read assigned lectures, chapters in text, and other resources
Participate in online discussion of session topics. Laptop, netbook, or flash drive required. All reading is given by the Professor in pdf form.

Assignments Due Dates: All assignments should be posted on the collective blog and presented as a collaborative work on a power point with the artistic projects. The overreaching theme is ‘The Creative City in Art and Technology.’

Each week’s lecture is posted under “Course Documents” in the blog site. For those who are squeamish about their English Korean documentation with many visuals will suffice, or you will be teamed up with a native speaker/writer. Many of the 30 billion dollar sources of grants in the world are listen on English speaking search engines!

Each student must read all slender reading assignments, lectures, and readings posted by the instructor, and submit assignments on time. Remember: grant writing is a team sport and one must ‘obey’ the deadlines if only to get their foot in the door. There are also many other ‘back door’ approaches, and open submissions which we will study.

Assignments should be e-mailed to the instructor at phillip.baldwin.mailing@gmail.com

Participation: A topic is posted every week on the Blog site and given. The Creative City in Art and Technology is the broad theme. This could mean a lot of things…it is your job to find the ‘fit’ with existing grants or open doors. Do not take ‘no’ for an answer!

Session #1 – Introduction to the Grant Seeking Process (January 19)
Using the online sources and social media
http://www.globalcivicmedia.org
SIGN UP: http://www.meetup.com/FRAGVERGENCE

A FREE AND PUBLIC SERVICE! PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL CIVIC CULTURE!
Who: Artists, Civic Leaders, Citizens, Performers, Educators, Architects/Urbanists, Grads and Undergrads and global citizens. ‘Distance’ participants encourage to join via Skype!

What: Use on site of the www.cos.com site of 30 billion in funding for production, grad education, Fulbrights, NGO, and NFP funding. You have free access to the site at the Meetup.com. quick training and critique in the writing and use of international NGO funding from Prof. Baldwin. Grantwriting is a team sport!

Why: to sit with a funding search engine over beverage and succinctly discuss all projects for group or individual funding. Make a social difference!

When: Summer class at Sogang.

How (much): funding ranging from $5000, to collaborative projects of $300,000…set and meet deadlines, discuss ideas and projects that must come to light.

What is development and what is foundation relations?
Discussion of types of fund raising
Discussion of foundations
Research and tech grants
Outline types of foundations
Outline types of grants available
First steps: Prospect Research – outline sources for researching foundations and review what
information to look for.

Reading: PDF 1-2
Assignment #1: Write a short biography and pitch of yourself. Identify project that needs funding. Conduct prospect research to create list of potential foundations to fund project. Write short blog entry describing what foundations were located in research. Due week one.


Week #2 – Prospect Research)
Prospect research - What other tools can be used to find information on foundations?
Discussion of 990-PF Discussion of other resources and search tips. Information on international government and corporate grants. Assignment: Identify one foundation as a focus for the proposal to be written for the course. Use the social ‘color wheel’ to understand what type of proposal you are making: artistic, social, educational, civic culture, humanitarian. Write 1-2 paragraphs explaining the match between the foundation and the project, and what resources were used to reach this decision. Group presentation and work with the performance production. Due week two.

Week #3 – Proposal Format and Introduction.
What are the elements of a grant proposal and letter of inquiry? How can we make a ‘Visual’ research proposal? What information needs to be conveyed in the proposal and how?
Discussion of the introduction or “making the ask”
Reading: Chapter 3
Assignment: Write an introduction/first paragraph for the proposal. Reading: PDF 3-4. Due week Three.


Week #4 –Capability Statement and Project Description
Discussion of capability statement
Refinement of the White Paper and how to write a project description
Assignment: Write a capability statement and a project description with White Paper visual on a Civic Proposal for Seoul or individual film project. Reading: PDF 5-6. Due week Four.


Week #5 – Needs Statement and Goals and Objectives
Discussion of the needs statement
Discussion of how to write goals and objectives
What is the difference between goals and objectives?
Reading: Chapter 5-6
Assignment: Write needs statement, and goals and objectives for the proposal.
Evaluation
Discussion of how to evaluate the project
How will the project be evaluated?
Assignment: Write evaluation section. Reading: PDF 6-7. Due week five.



Week #6 – Attachments and Personnel
Discussion of what attachments to include with proposal
What is the background of the personnel involved?
Assignment: List the attachments that your organization has. Which ones exist? Which ones
need to be written or located? Describe which ones you would include with your proposal.
Write a personnel section. Describe the timeframe of the project.
Budget and Conclusion
Discussion of how to create a project budget
What information should be included? How is staff time estimated? How to estimate indirect
costs?
Discussion of proposal conclusion: team presentations to the performance groups.
Reading: PDF 8-9. Due week six.


Example and assignment (as submitted to funding agencies and the New York Times: make it Breezy!

The pitch:

Every end of semester, SUNY/Stony Brook professor Phillip Baldwin gathers his students at a hip Williamsburg club for an open class. The students, their friends, and friends of friends arrive resolutely and on time. Three hours later they leave in awe. At the center of an arena surrounded by four white screens the professor is a Virgilian guide, and this is not an average university lecture; but what is shaping into be the classroom of the future. Performances, installations, viewings, hackings, augmented reality projects desired and coveted; wii controller duels, augmented reality projects for smart phones, recitations and non-linear narratives. All flow chaotically and in order in a democratic, interactive, and multi-source flow of information. It’s spectacular, although Professor Baldwin calls it “antispectacle”.

The participants have their net books and gyro mice to move the dozens of bits of data along. One student plays the guitar, another one sings Shakespeare. There is plenty of sound. The parallax views from the side screens remove the sense that they are watching a prim. The Professor guides the “data" to be shown on the screens: entertainment, hyperlinks, portals, sounds, live performances, and a cacophony of other things. The participants lay way back in their seats. With the gyro-mouse they move their bits of data across the screen to make it appear to the other individuals.

This is a type of “spectacle driven" consolidation in a time-the telemodern-where
spectacle is in danger of extinction and not in transcendence… It’s a fantastic energetic class, and students, despite the beer and the food served at the cub, don’t lose focus for one split second.-NYTIMES pitch.


Final Assignment: Create a project budget and write the conclusion and present a pp of the pitch. Pitch to Sogang Administration, Korean Government Officials with dialog. Submit and send to an international agency such as ‘The Bill and Milinda Gates Fund’. What do funders look for in the submitted proposal? Get the immediate feedback from the government and international funders. Individual exploration on funding graduate school. Pull together writing assignments into a full letter proposal. Dance!