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Bigelow, Nathan; Rodgers, Donald – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
This article describes the Social Entrepreneurship for Poverty Alleviation (SEPA) grant-writing program at Austin College. The SEPA program provides a service-learning experience in which students spend a summer writing grants with local nonprofit agencies. In the hope that others might choose to emulate our efforts, what follows is a detailed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grantsmanship, Grants, Proposal Writing
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Greenfield, Jeremy S. – High School Journal, 2015
In the United States there are significant gaps in college-going between high-income and low-income students and between White students and African American and Latino/a students. A number of factors contribute to this persistent gap. Among these factors are the rising cost of college attendance and the complexity of the financial aid process. The…
Descriptors: Literacy, Student Financial Aid, Student Costs, Ethnography
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Stevens, Courtney – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
This article describes the Community Grant Writing Project (CGWP), a flexible service-learning framework designed for use in writing-intensive courses. The CGWP incorporates best-practice recommendations from the service-learning literature and addresses recent challenges identified for successful service-learning partnerships. In the CGWP,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Grantsmanship, Writing Strategies, Writing Skills
Griswold, John S.; Jarvis, William F. – Commonfund Institute, 2011
Successful investing for long-term funds requires a strategic plan. This is true despite--indeed, because of--the fact that the future is unknowable. The plan must be specific, embodying in concrete terms the best thinking of the board of trustees about the investment pool, its goals and purposes; but it also needs to be sufficiently flexible to…
Descriptors: Investment, Financial Policy, Position Papers, Strategic Planning