[CLP-Interns] Preparation Entry (Jan 31)

26 Jan 2011

Next week's intern meeting will be Grant-Writing 101 as we prepare to submit for a second year with the Community Foundation and their Youth Grantmakers granting program.

In preparation, please see the following grant information from the Community Foundation's upcoming Youth Grantmakers Grant...

The Youth Grantmakers Program (2011): http://www.thecommunityfoundation.net/TCF_Initiative/YouthPhilanthropyInitiative.html

The upcoming grant opportunity (due February 15, 2011):

Grant guidelines: http://www.thecommunityfoundation.net/downloads/grants/2011/YGC/2011_YGC_Grant_Guidelines.doc

Grant application: http://www.thecommunityfoundation.net/downloads/grants/2011/YGC/2011_YGC_Grant_Application.doc

Last year (2010) CLP received $2225 from the Youth Grantmakers Committee. This grant is our funding resource for the CLP@NoVi and SU2I Program. A press release about this grant is available here:http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_W_wgrants15.46289c9.html

For your review and preparation for our meeting Monday, please take a look at the grant that we submitted last year: http://bit.ly/ygfund2010. At our meeting on Monday, I will show you an example of a different grant I have written that will influence how we change our approach to the 2011 grant.

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Other (vaguely related) resources:

How to Write a Grant Proposal from About.com: http://nonprofit.about.com/od/foundationfundinggrants/tp/grantproposalhub.htm

From E-How: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Grant-Proposal

[CLP-Interns] Reflection Entry (Jan 24, 2011)

18 January 2011

For next week's reflection (Monday, January 24 from 6:30-8:30), I would like you to watch this 19-minute TED talk on the Slow Movement.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/carl_honore_praises_slowness.html



One of the CLP Core skills is our ability "to hold process as important, if not more important, than product."

What insights do you make regarding going slowly and "quality"-- quality of life, quality of relationship, of work, etc? Consider your pace (personally, socially, academically, in CLP, etc). Why that pace? What does it mean to you? Where has it "taken" you?

Consider:
Slowness | quality | process | outcome| participation | attentive | prepared | fully present