Welcome to the Office of Stewardship and Grants Online!
We encourage faculty and staff members to pursue outside funding for ideas that advance the vision, mission and strategic plan of the College.
Browse through the links designed to acquaint faculty and staff to Mount Union College's administrative support for seeing external funds. Along with our general solicitation philosophy , we inform the reader what to expect when researching funding sources, developing the proposal, preparing the budget , and submitting the proposal . For those whose requests are successfully funded, there is a section about managing the funded proposal .
Quick Links
From here you are one link away from online forms for
- Preliminary approval for pursing external funds
- Final approval for submitting a proposal
- Borrowing resource materials from the Office of Stewardship and Grants
- Requesting assistance in identifying prospective funding sources for your project
From here you are one click away from links for grant seekers , a variety of sites and search engines devoted to identifying funds from government, foundation and corporate sites.
Grant Writing Basics Workshop Series Registration by September 24 - Call Susan Denning at extension 8239!
Sessions are scheduled for Wednesday, October 3, 10, 17, and 24 from 8 ' 9 a.m.
Session I Introduction to Grant Writing
- Grant myths
- Grant seeking and the Internet
Session II Turning your Great Idea into a Fundable Project
- Use the language that funding sources want to see
- Practical steps toward success (time management, etc.)
Session III Elements of the Proposal Narrative
- Abstracts, Purposes, Goals, Objectives, Summaries and more
- Writing style
Session IV Budget Preparation and Proposal Submission
- Does it all add up? Budget pitfalls
- Dotting the i's and crossing the t's
Invite us to help you!
- Make an appointment for one-on-one coaching in the area of proposal writing.
- Invite us to a staff meeting to provide an overview of services available from the Office of Grants.
- Need to build understanding and support for grant seeking among your colleagues? We can design specific workshops or presentations based upon your request.
- Ask us to join your collaborative or committee meetings as you discuss new initiatives that will require additional dollars
- Request editing services for sabbatical proposals and internal grant requests.
Are you wondering about something we haven't mentioned? Just ask.