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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