Submit a 1-page “Statement of Need” as the first part of your actual Grant Proposal.

Grant Proposal: Statement of Need Assignment Instructions

Overview

The best way to learn the knowledge and skills of grant writing is to write a Grant Proposal. Each section of the grant proposal project will develop your knowledge, skills and techniques used in the preparation of professional grant proposals.  A grant proposal must convincingly present and justify your ability to complete a project to a funding agency. Funding agencies also have very specific requirements in the application process. Each grant proposal project will introduce you to the sections most commonly required by a private funding agency.

Instructions

You will submit a 1-page “Statement of Need” as the first part of your actual Grant Proposal. Remember this item is critical. It should be a comprehensive, coherent, and concise description of “the problem” your organization faces and written in a way that is persuasive and encourages a Grant Maker to want to partnership with your organization to solve it.

If you chose Option 1, the most difficult part of this assignment might be getting your organizational contact to identify the actual “Need.” In my experience, having the contact person narrow down his/her “need” can be time consuming. Talk to him/her early and often about this issue so you can complete the assignment on time.

If you chose Option 2, you have some creative writing to do. Pick a logical “need” for your fictitious organization based on its Mission Statement. Don’t create a monstrous, multifaceted “need” with a large, involved budget. If you do, it makes the other assignments of the Grant Proposal more time consuming to complete.

Finally, be sure to read the sample “Need Statements” in the textbook and consider modeling your submission after one of them. There are some exceptional examples, and consider modeling your submission after one of theirs.

Papers may be written in APA or AMA style.