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Considering grants to fund your initiatives but unsure where to begin? Kevin Wren is sharing tips and tricks into the grant writing process with CSC at EDspaces attendees! Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02X-8y50

Attention grantseekers: Are you looking for answers to your grantmaking questions? We’ve got you covered! The FAQ page on our website is designed to help you navigate the grant application journey smoothly. 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/eG3Cxxvm Can't find your question addressed there? Let us know!

A definite model of cooperation across the academic landscape in a State to help in the countless number of grants available in post-disaster recovery for communities impacted by disasters. A brilliant way to harness the capacity at the universities to ensure no community is left behind in the long road to recovery.

We’ve all been there… hearing about a funder that seems PERFECT for what we need funding for, only to discover those dreaded words on their website or outreach materials: “No unsolicited proposals.” You just know if they knew about you, they’d want to see your application! Don’t despair! Not all is lost! There are proven strategies to gain the interest of some funders who have posted that warning sign to stay off their proverbial lawn. I am super excited to present some of those strategies through my training session, "'No Unsolicited Proposals:' How to Get that Date to the Grant Prom," tomorrow FOR FREE, courtesy of Foundant Technologies! Interested in attending? There's still time to RSVP for the session, which will take place on Tuesday, November 19th from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm ET! This session is worth 1.5 CEUs for GPCs and CFREs. Regist here: https://lnkd.in/gHgeh4Dz You will learn: * What the motivation may be for a funder to choose not to accept open applications; * How to research a funder’s past giving and areas of interest so you can position your organization to be invited; * Techniques to cultivate relationships with funders who do not have open competitions; and * Marketing, outreach, and advocacy skills you can develop to raise your level of grant professionalism.

Winning Grants in Six Steps! Our latest newsletter article takes you through six phases of winning grant proposals! https://lnkd.in/g2EG9TYh

🐚❗️Please be advised about the following corrections to the schedule for this Thursday's OCEAN Partnership Grant Monitoring and Evaluation Webinar: 📅 Date: 07 March 🕒 Time: 09:00–11:00 GMT and 15:00–17:00 GMT 💻 Platform: Zoom (registration required) 🌟 Event Overview: Interactive session with top tips and guidance on how to develop your project's Theory of Change and log frame. Highly recommended to anyone interested in submitting a Partnership Grants application to learn more about the MEL requirements of their application. Please be aware that this event is not applicable to Community Grants applicants. 🤔 Q&A Session: We'll reserve time at the end of each session for an interactive Q&A. Feel free to ask anything related to the programme or the application process. We will also be holding a special Q&A session on 14 March so watch this space! 🌍 Choose the time that's right for you To accommodate a range of time zones, we'll be hosting two sessions – one in the morning and another in the afternoon. Choose the one that suits you best. 🔗 How to Join: To participate, simply register via Zoom using the link provided: 09:00–11:00 GMT: https://loom.ly/GGZUhZM 15:00-17:00 GMT: https://loom.ly/Iol4yKk

Unrestricted funding: the golden ticket of the grant world. The catch? It's often by invitation only. The secret sauce to receiving that coveted invite? **Your board.** Compile a list of folx who work at the funder's office. Do your board members know any of them? Ask them to check for 2nd-degree connections on LinkedIn. Help the board members resist the urge to make a pushy ask. Instead, guide them in nurturing those connections: like content, make helpful comments, ask great questions, have coffee. Invitations incoming!

MBLS 2024 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Exciting news - the 2024 Midwest Business Librarian Summit is scheduled to occur in-person on Wed, July 10, at Purdue University! This is an IN-PERSON event held at the Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, campus. Are you a business librarian or liaison, or someone who wants to know more about business librarianship? Join us for a day-long summit to discuss what we are all working on, what resources we love, teaching strategies, and more! MBLS is structured but informal, with ample time to get to know one another. The summit is FREE. This event is open to anyone interested in business librarianship, not just those in the Midwest. This year, we are excited to welcome Marilyn Nash, Regional Outreach Officer at the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as our keynote speaker! Visit https://lnkd.in/geTksH_B for details. REGISTRATION: Registration is now open! The event is capped at 75 participants, and registration will be open until June 25th. We hope to see you in July! Please register for MBLS here: https://lnkd.in/gccWMEYE CALL FOR LIGHTNING TALKS Can you talk for just 5 minutes about what you’ve been doing as a business librarian? We’re asking those registered for MBLS to apply to present a lightning talk! It could be an interesting project, a workflow improvement, a negotiation strategy, a resource discovery, an innovative approach to your job, or something completely different. As long as it relates to business librarianship, we at MBLS want to hear about it. You only need your title and abstract at this point in the process. Lightning Presentation Call-Out Schedule: June 14 - Submission Deadline June 21 - Acceptance Announcement June 28 - Slides Due July 10 – MBLS SUBMIT YOUR LIGHTNING TALK IDEA HERE: https://lnkd.in/g8xDQuNu

Some great practical advice here from Gill Pipkin about bid writing. Well worth a read!

Coming up to crunch time - the NACRA submission deadline is one week away! This conference is unlike others you have attended. The focus is on everyone developing their case research and teaching skills, with a constructive and collaborative approach. For this reason, the quote I've been telling everyone about their conference submissions is: "It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be complete." Perfection and excellence can come later - send the work you have. The whole point of this conference is to get feedback on your work, to make it better. Of course, the better shape the submission is in, the better the feedback you'll receive . . . but if you don't send it in at all, because you're worried it's not good enough, you'll get no feedback at all. Remember, there are two kinds of submissions for cases: - Full cases with instructor's manuals: your case is discussed at a roundtable with your peers, organized by area (e.g. marketing, strategy, accounting) over two mornings - Start-Up cases: submit an outline, and get feedback from not only other Start Up session participants but experienced case writers who act as mentors, in an afternoon session. Of course, you are still encouraged to attend the full case roundtables. Pedagogy papers are also accepted, with a dedicated session to the topic of teaching with cases. Send in your work! I want to see you in Orlando this October! https://lnkd.in/gpjzFwMp