From: "Sylvia Lieshoff" <slieshoff at famlit.org>
Date: January 13, 2006 1:40:58 PM EST
To: <familyliteracy at nifl.gov>
Subject: New Grant Writing Discussion
Reply-To: <slieshoff at famlit.org>

Participate in the VLC Effective Grant Writing Discussion Forum 

Does your organization rely on grants to pay for staffing, training, new
equipment, and other organizational operations? Do you find it 
increasingly challenging to target funders, develop successful grant 
proposals, and provide effective project reporting and evaluation? From 
January 17 - 27, Verizon Literacy Campus (VLC) will offer a moderated 
discussion on the VLC Discussion Forum about the following facets of 
the grant writing process:

Research: finding appropriate funding sources
Relationship: building connections and associations with your funder
Request: writing and submitting the proposal
Reporting: evaluating your grant project and demonstrating accountability 
to your funder

The guest moderator for this discussion will be Jim Aiello, development
officer for ProLiteracy Worldwide. During the nine-day period, questions
will be posted on the Forum for participants to discuss. As moderator, Jim
will answer and pose additional questions and topics for participants. At
the end of the period, this discussion will be archived on the VLC site. 

You can access the discussion by doing the following anytime beginning
January 17:
To read the messages posted to the Effective Grant Writing forum:
1. Go to www.literacycampus.org.
2. Click on "Discussion Forums" in the upper left menu bar.
3. Click on "For Program Staff".

To respond to messages in the Effective Grant Writing discussion:
Follow steps 1 and 2 above.

If you are a new user, click on "Register" and complete the form displayed
on your screen. Please note that you can control whether or not your 
e-mail address is displayed in your postings.

If you have already registered for a VLC Discussion Forum:
1. Click on "Log In" and enter your user information.
2. Go to the Discussion Forum page at:
http://www.literacycampus.org/discussion/index.asp
3. Click on "For Program Staff". You will see several topics displayed.
4. Click on "Effective Grant Writing". You will see a welcome message 
from Jim Aiello containing information about this discussion as well as
instructions for accessing helpful resources in the VLC Library.

New topics about grant writing will be posted regularly during the nine 
days of this moderated discussion. You are free to post responses to the
questions or to post new topics for the participants to discuss. 

Please remember to visit the Discussion Forum page frequently to see 
new questions and postings.

Additional resources will be made available in the VLC Library as
supplemental background and information.

Sylvia C. Lieshoff
Verizon Literacy Campus: www.literacycampus.org

Aaron Kohring
Research Associate
University of Tennessee, Center for Literacy Studies
Phone:(865)974-4109
Fax:(865)974-3857
e-mail: akohring at utk.edu