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Grant Contact Role

Grant Contact Role
 
Grant Contacts increase each school's access to grant opportunities

 

 

 

Responsibilities of Grant Contacts:

  • Serve as a liaison between the school and Richland School District One's Office of Planning and Grant

  • Maintain a Grant Resource Notebook


 

 

Disseminate grant information using:

  • Your Grant Resource Notebook (placed in a central location)

  • A bulletin board, and/or

  • Teachers' mailboxes


 

 

 

Support staff members and school teams in:

  • Researching and grant opportunities

  • Developing and editing grant proposals

  • Attend Office of Planning and Grants sponsored meetings and grant development workshops

 

 

 

Knowledge and Skills Desired:

  • Enthusiastic, "can-do" attitude

  • Awareness of the school's needs related to grants

  • Some grant-related experience

  • Writing/editing skills

  • Ability to offer constructive feedback to colleagues

  • Positive working relationship and communication with staff members


 

 

Benefits:

  • Increased access to outside funding sources for special projects

  • Tips on how to write competitive proposals

  • New ways to use technology to seek funding and develops proposals

  • Professional development

  • Incentives/rewards for successful grant applications provided by the district's business partners