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Achieving Sustainability Grants and Contracts: Strategies for Success

Learn key measures of success in securing sustainability grants and contracts, collaboration strategies with industry and government, and tips for achieving success in funding applications. Enhance student learning and build new partnerships. Incorporate feedback and aim for continuous improvement.

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Achieving Sustainability Grants and Contracts: Strategies for Success

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  1. SUSTAINABILTY GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:MEASURES OF SUCCESS Jeff Gordon, Senior Director Program Development and External Partnerships San José State University Research Foundation jeff.gordon@sjsu.edu

  2. SJSU Research Foundation • Auxiliary 501(c)3 non-profit corporation • One of 80+ auxiliaries within CSU system…among the top four in terms of managing contract/grant revenues, 75 + years old • SJSU research portfolio $65M+ per year, professional staff working with faculty on 100’s of applications and awards each year- Funding Alert! • Collaborations with industry and local gov’t: • San Jose BioCenterUS Market Access Center, Software Business Cluster Environmental Business Cluster

  3. Positioning For Success • Targeting to Goals of RFP/Sponsor • Collaboration-Interdisciplinary • Program Officer Relationships • Review Past Successes • Apply Best Practices/Avoid Pitfalls • Rejection Isn’t Personal • Try, Try Again • Incorporate Feedback from Reviewers • “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” Albert Einstein

  4. Achieving Success • Enabling/Enhancing Student Learning • Exceeding Your Metrics/Over Deliver • Building New Relationships/Partnerships • Sponsors Invite You Back • SJSU’s Center for Development of Recycling and Santa Clara County (www.recyclestuff.org) • Create Awareness and Recognition—Points of Pride (Key Stakeholders/Media)

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