Answer the questions. Grants are funding programs created by one party (Grant Makers), often a Government Department, Corporation

Grant

Grants are funding programs created by one party (Grant Makers), often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. Most grants are competitive, although some are awarded through non-competitive and/or less-competitive processes.

When applying for a grant, the applicant prepares a well thought-out document, known as a proposal. The proposal clearly and concisely states why a project is being proposed, what will be accomplished, who or what and how the project will provide a needed benefit or change and, of course, how much is being requested. Most grants are made to fund a specific project and require some level of compliance and reporting. The Grant Writing process involves an applicant submitting a proposal (or submission) to a potential funder, either on the applicant's own initiative or in response to a Request for Proposal from the funder. Other grants can be given to individuals, such as victims of natural disasters or individuals such as people who seek to open a small business. Government grants, which you don’t have to repay back, are available for almost anybody. These are money programs that are offered to you by your county and state which you never have to repay. Project related funding to governments, business, communities and individuals is often arranged by application either in writing or on-line.

Tips for finding your grant:

Here are some tips to help you search for your own free government grant:

• Use the internet to search the government grants available to you. When you enter the free money related keywords the search engines take your search words and then find documents and return websites that are related to that keyword you searched for.
• When searching for free government money information, you should try to search for a variety of terms related to free government grants, such as applications, free scholarship, housing grants. Fine tune your keywords while using the search and use specific keywords.
• It would take long to see all the grants from the government available to you, so the more specific your keywords to narrow your search, the better the results.

By searching you can find information about receiving free grant money for yourself.
Just by spending a little time online doing some research you could be on the way to receiving a nice check in the mail.

1. What does the notion “grant” mean?

2. What are the ways of finding a grant?

3. Would you like to apply for a grant? Why? Why not?

4. What kind of grant would you like to apply for?

2) Visit the website given below, look through the list of different grants for different categories of students, for example, grants for undergraduate students, graduate students, etc. Follow program guidelines and choose the grant you would like to apply for. Make a short presentation about it. Use appendix 2 for the tips how to make a Power Point presentation, appendix 3 for strategies for oral presentations, and appendix 5 for rules of body language. Use appendix 4 to evaluate your groupmate’s presentation.

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/

Your presentation should include following points:

• Important information
• Summary of program requirements
• Requirements to submit a proposal
• Why have you chosen this grant?

b) You are a young promising scientist. You are going to conduct a very important scientific research but the only problem you have is lack of money. You are going to participate in the grant competition together with your colleagues. It’s necessary you compose a project proposal to take part in this grant competition. Read the information of the second part of the textbook “Academic writing practice” about writing a grant and compose the first part of proposal – cover sheet. Use appendix 6 to follow the sample of cover sheet of the grant proposal.

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