I have just learn that one of the grants Positive Spin has submitted has made it to a qualifying round. They (Alliance for Biking & Walking) will now pick from a group of 100 or so to give $20,000 to. This is an exciting opportunity. I would love to put on a resume that a grant I was part of was awarded.
It was a simple request for the money to start Positive Spin getting more involved with infrastructure of Morgantown. Better road, sidewalks, etc.
The Alliance will be sending more information to us and the other 'contestants' in a few days or so.
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15 years ago
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As you prepare this grant, you'll want to be thinking in specific terms about the audience you're writing to--what is the specific purpose of the award that Alliance for Biking & Walking is giving out? What values does this organization hold? As you conduct this audience analysis, think too about the organization's purpose in reading the document -- it wants to find out which program is most likely to meet/enact the values that the alliance considers to be valuable.
As the grant writer, then, you'll want to be constructing effective logos, ethos, and pathos appeals that speak to the audience's values and purposes. That is, you'll want to create effective logos appeals that convince the alliance that yes, your plan/project will indeed help to bring about the values/the purposes that the alliance wants its grant to support; you'll also need to construct effective ethos appeals that say, in effect, "we hold similar values to you and we also have good sense in knowing how to pull off this project we're proposing to do"; and you might also incorporate effective pathos appeals (perhaps through concrete descriptions, examples, or hypotheticals of either the problem or the solutions (once it's enacted)) that say, in effect, "our solution is going enact great change in addressing our communities' problems.
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