Information on Grant Process

Your grant review “committee” will be:

Dr. Karen Bowen, A102

Tina Bryant-Allen, B115

Mike Dossett, B115

Sheri Narin, L130

Kathy Oakley, L108

Parker Turpin, L125

You should drop off a copy of your grant proposal to each person’s office NO LATER THAN 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.  You should have the copies for your classmate’s at class time.

Reminder of writing guidelines:

Pages should be copied double sided.

Font should be 12 and times new roman style.

Information should be double-spaced except when there are bullets (and documents in the appendices may have different styles as well).

Margins should be one inch around.

References should be APA style.

The process in class on May 7, 2008 will be as follows:

• The group to go first will be selected randomly (before the class so that they may set up first).
• The class should start right at 11:30 a.m. with that group’s presentation.
• The presentation should be no longer than 30 minutes with ample time for questions from the audience. 
• After the first presentation, the committee will review the presentation, either with the group or with the group stepping out (this depends on whether all reviewers agree to do the review with the group – I have not confirmed this yet).  Either way, the other group will step out of the room.
• There will them be a short break for the other group to set up.
• The second group will do their presentation, following the same guidelines.
• The committee will review the presentation, again either with or without the group members.
• After the presentations, I will pull all the comments together and prepare a grade sheet, which should be available Thursday afternoon, or Monday at the latest.

Structure of grades:

The overall grant grade will be the average of the grades given by the reviewers and classmates.

The written proposal is worth 300 points.  250 points will be from the evaluation of the grant by the committee members and the grades given will be averaged into one grade.  The remaining 50 points will be the average of the grades given by your fellow classmates.  These will be collected before the grant presentations begin.

The oral presentation and question/answer period will be worth 220 points. 200 points will be from the evaluation of the grant by the committee members and the grades given will be averaged into one grade.  The remaining 20 points will be the average of the grades given by your fellow classmates, on a worksheet completed after your presentation.

I am in the process of revising the grade sheets and will try to have a copy for you next week, but important points to consider include:

·        Is the information organized in a way that makes it easy to find pertinent items? (Hint:  Don’t forget page numbers and make sure references to pages are correct, including in appendices.)

·        Does the information follow the provided format? (All reviewers will have a copy of the format).

·        Is the grant grammatically correct?  Is the spelling correct?

·        Are the points made with enough detail and yet presented succinctly?

·        Are the needs of the community clearly expressed?

·        Does the program seem feasible?

·        Do the numbers add up? (Hint: At least one of these reviewers will double check your math).

·        There will be questions about individual sections as well.

The only individual grade in this entire project comes from your evaluation of the other group’s work.  Thus your evaluation of the other group’s grant and oral presentation is expected to be thorough.  Please note that being thorough does not mean you have to have numerous criticisms; it means that you carefully review the sections and honestly provide feedback.

The entire grant project is worth 720 points (excluding the 50 points for your evaluation o the other groups work).  The breakdown is as follows:

Grant project work:  200 points

Grant Project: 250 points

Student evaluation of grant project:  50 points

Grant Oral Presentation: 200 points

Student evaluation of grant presentation:  20 points