English 431-001
Grant Writing
Instr: Stanton, Sally
Office: CRT 288; 229-5007
e-mail: stanton@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: M; 5:30-8:10pm; CRT 127
Course Description
Do you want to help nonprofit organizations serve the public?
Grant writing combines richly descriptive storytelling and subtle persuasion within technical limits established by potential charitable funders of these organizations. The practical skill of preparing clear, concise grant proposals is valued and desired by employers in community and higher education, engineering, science and medicine, human services, the arts, and cultural institutions. In this class, students will learn the basics of researching and writing effective, persuasive grants, and will then develop and apply that knowledge in a course-integrated writing internship (service learning) with a community-based nonprofit organization. Students will learn how to find and research the sources of charitable funding information available to Milwaukee area organizations, and how to effectively organize and present that information for writing proposals. Representatives of charitable foundations, professional grant writers and others will share their knowledge of the nonprofit-funding world and successful grant writing. Students will leave this course with marketable skills and a greater knowledge of the ways in which effective communication adds value to the workplace.
