Grantsmanship

Updated: April 6, 2005

Grantsmanship
Contract Development
and Resource Development

Helping Extension professionals strengthen their skills in project development, proposal writing, and project management.

-Upcoming Workshops

Enhance your Extension programs with Resource Development Workshops! Workshop! Proposals, Grants, & Contracts - Basics and more Looking for funding; Reading a request for proposals; Writing a proposal; A quick look at cost recovery guidelines; Developing a budget; Submission processes at OSU Watch for new workshop dates and locations to be posted soon. Registration fee: $15 (for materials, snacks, lunch, lab fees) If needed, include an additional $3 for a one-day parking permit Agenda Registration-Word New Workshop! I've been funded! Now what happens? This workshop for you if you have: been to the grants workshop and want the next steps, a funded project but don’t really understand the administrative part of it, have something submitted and want to be ready if you get funded, or someone you support who gets funding. Learn the processes related to managing a funded project.; An overview of how Extension and OSURF work together; Web Tours of helpful web sites (Extension, Grants pages, HR pages, OSURF's pages); a little about recovering costs; the people part of the project (HR); how to hire & pay someone, release time, help with problems, and all about forms; being a principal Investigator, working with your PI Portal and your SPO, spending your money, Matching, cost sharing and more, Ending a project the right way, more about forms. Presenter: Marge Hall (HR) Jennifer Pavelec (OSURF) Jackie LaMuth (Res Dev/Business Office) Watch for new workshop dates and locations to be posted soon. Registration fee: $5 (for materials & snacks) If needed, include an additional $3 for a one-day parking permit Agenda Registration Word New Workshop Your Work and Cost Recovery: Strategies & tools for calculating costs & building budgets Topics to be addressed include: Cost recovery guidelines and tools; Identifying all costs (time, materials, space, supervision, travel, administrative fees, and more); Figuring the cost of specific educational services; Calculating unit costs; Determining ROI (return on investment). Choose one - morning and afternoon sessions are the same. AM workshops are 9:30 – 12 noon. PM workshops are 1 - 3:30 pm * December 16 -- AM -- Room 111 Ag Adm Building Agricultural Administration Building, Rooms 105 & 111 OSU Columbus Campus Building 003 on map Driving directions available with the map Registration fee: $5 If needed, include an additional $3 for a one-day parking permit Agenda Registration-Word New Workshop!* Sorting through your routine to find and design cost recovery projects and opportunities Topics will include: Starting with what you're doing now, Thinking creatively, Using old tricks to find new products, The life cycle of a project/program,New ways to think about routine programs/projects, Public good and Private good Continuum and where things fit, Parts of a product, Ways to stretch and repackage programs for new audiences, Ways to find new audiences, Simple ways to test your new ideas, Deciding how many costs to recover, Tools to help you. I have to tell you this was one of the best inservices I have ever attended, and admit the extra attention to my issues was wonderful for me. (LuAnn Freppon, Agent, Richland County) If you have a project idea you want to develop, bring it. You'll have an opportunity to get started. In small groups we'll work on your ideas; start preliminary budgets; establish time lines; start paperwork needed to submit your proposal. Choose one - morning and afternoon sessions are the same. AM workshops are 9:30 – 12 noon. PM workshops are 1 – 3:30 pm. December 16 -- PM --111 Ag Adm Bldg Agricultural Administration Building Room 105 & 111 OSU Columbus Campus Building 003 on map Registration fee: $5 If needed, include an additional $3 for a one-day parking permit Agenda Registration - Word Please use the WordPerfect or Word registration materials available above. New Workshop Negotiating Cost Recovery: Hands on Practice At this workshop we will practice ways to work with customers. Several seasoned and experienced agents will be there to “star” in the sketches, coach and offer suggestions. We will: Learn to present a price, keep the door open, and negotiate a cost recovery outcome. Share examples of letters of offer and will role-play some typical situations Be coached and coach others and actually practice negotiating with a few of our typical and not-so-typical customers. Keep an emphasis on the importance of building and keeping relationships, and talking through the situation. There will be time to present situations you expect to encounter as you expand your cost recovery efforts. We will work on developing “reasons people should say “yes” to us. Watch for new workshop dates and locations to be posted soon.

All educational programs conducted by Ohio State University Extension are available to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability or Vietnam-era veteran status.

Keith L. Smith, Associate Vice President for Ag. Admin. and Director, OSU Extension
TDD No. 800-589-8292 (Ohio only) or 614-292-1868