Max Shacknai COVE • Upstate Institute • Grants Office •Career Services
Finding Money for Social Change: Grant Writing Skills
Colgate Staff/Community Member Application
Spring 2016
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Finding Money for Social Change: Grant Writing Skills
Successful nonprofits have one thing in common: talented people with the skills to secure funding. The
Max Shacknai COVE, Upstate Institute, Corporate, Foundation & Government Relations Office, and
Office of Career Services are offering Colgate staff and local community members the opportunity to
participate in a 12-week, non-credit bearing class on grant writing. This hands-on series of workshops is
designed to help you understand the often mysterious process of grant writing. Participants will learn
how to search for and identify potential funding sources, plan a program and develop a budget, and
prepare a customized proposal with a local community-based organization.
Time Commitment:
This is a 12-week class, meeting on Tuesdays from 11:30am – 12:45pm starting January 26 and running
through April 19, 2016 (with a break at mid-term recess, Tuesday, March 15).
On a separate sheet:
1) Briefly describe your most important (most important to you) community, personal or work
involvements and interests.
2) Please share with us your interest in the Finding Money for Social Change: Grant writing
Skills course and what you hope to gain from participation in this program. Please include
why you would like to develop grant writing skills and how you see this skill as being
important in your future. (3-4 paragraphs)
3) Please attach your current résumé.
Submit your application by January 3, 2016 to:
Krista Saleet, the COVE, 109G Lathrop Hall
ksaleet@colgate.edu
Please note: The class is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays from 11:30am – 12:45pm
beginning on January 26. You must be able to attend all sessions, through April 19, for
certification.