Finding Funding for your Service-Learning Projects 4-H Service-Learning Initiative Trainings Ruston and Crowley, July 2005 Presented by Juanita Johnson.

Finding Funding for your Service-Learning Projects

4-H Service-Learning Initiative TrainingsRuston and Crowley, July 2005Presented by Juanita Johnson

Getting Ready to Apply for a Grant

The Four “R’s” of Grant writing:The Four “R’s” of Grant writing:

• Research (Investigate)• Resources (Assets)• Results (Outcomes)• Relationships (Contacts)

Research (Investigate)

• Do your homework.• Work to prove that your

group is the best one for funding and support.

• Develop a clear picture of what your group wants to do.

Resources (Assets)

• Build support for your project.

• Organize a “grant writing” team.

• Involve youth and adults in developing the grant proposal.

Relationships (Contacts)

• Identify a potential funding agency for your project.

• Contact someone at the agency.

• Gather information.• Your relationship with this person could ultimately determine whether your group receives a grant.

Results (Outcomes)

The Grant Proposal Must Be

• Neat

• Complete

• On Time

• Signed by required

authorized person.

Funding Sources

National 4-H Council

http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/pGrants.aspx

Youth take the lead in the design of the project, the proposal writing process, the implementation and the evaluation of funded projects. Grants are offered in these areas:

Health LifestylesTree Planting

Literacy

Funding Sources• Starbucks Foundation: Grants range from $5,000 to

$20,000 http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/foundation.asp

• Foundation of America’s "Recognizing America's Youth": Grants are for $1000. http://www.youthlink.org/us/awards_application.php

• Maurice R. Robinson Fund, Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF). Awards mini-grants of up to $600 for K-12 service-learning projects. Due October 14, 2005. http://www.crf-usa.org/network/crf_robin.html

• Do Something Grants: Awards $500 grants to change-makers and potential community leaders age 18 and under who identify problems in their communities, and then create game plans to do something to change their world. Deadline: September 2, 2005. http://www.dosomething.org/awards/grants/

Funding Sources The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown

Foundation Service Learning Program offers grants to middle schools, junior high and high schools, through classes and school sponsored clubs of sixth through twelfth grades, for service-learning projects in the following parishes: Jefferson, Orleans, St. James, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, or Washington.

http://www.thebrownfoundation.org

Funding Sources Community Foundation of

Shreveport-Bossier: http://www.comfoundsb.org/

Provides program funding to meet the most pressing community needs to improve the quality of life in Caddo and Bossier Parishes, Louisiana.

Funding Sources• Baton Rouge Area Foundation:

http://www.braf.org. Geographic Focus: Ascension, LA; East and West Baton Rouge, LA; East and West Feliciana, LA; Iberville, LA; Livingston, LA; Pointe Coupee, LA.

• Community Foundation of Acadiana Foundation. Geographic Focus:LA

Web Site: http://www.cfacadiana.org/. • The Greater New Orleans Foundation:

http://www.gnof.org. Geographic focus: New Orleans, LA area.