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Pursuing Education and Outreach Funding

Pursuing Education and Outreach Funding. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky Associate Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Key Elements. Be Realistic Consider Funding Agency Needs/Wants Treat as Scholarship Establish Partnerships – Early Assessment

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Pursuing Education and Outreach Funding

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  1. Pursuing Education and Outreach Funding Diandra Leslie-Pelecky Associate Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  2. Key Elements • Be Realistic • Consider Funding Agency Needs/Wants • Treat as Scholarship • Establish Partnerships – Early • Assessment • Dissemination • Perseverance

  3. Be Realistic What can you do with the available time? money? people? Getting education funding is NOT necessarily easier than getting research funding

  4. Know Your Funder • Programmatic priorities • Make sure your grant is going to the right place • Talk to the program manager • Visit in person • Read the RFP carefully

  5. Prepare • Know what is being done • Lit search • Professional education meetings • Work must be original • Exception: programs that specifically support adaptation

  6. Partnerships • Find people who know things you don’t • Establish partnerships early • Divide responsibilities • Document activities

  7. Assessment • How do you ‘know it works’? • Formative/Summative • Use external assessor • Integrated into overall plan

  8. Dissemination Plan • Posting on the web is NOT dissemination • Publish • Talks • Materials

  9. Perseverance • Don’t be discouraged by an initial failure • Do use referee comments • Do talk to people with successful grants • Do volunteer to serve as a reviewer

  10. Key Elements • Be Realistic • Consider Funding Agency Needs/Wants • Treat as Scholarship • Establish Partnerships – Early • Assessment • Dissemination • Perseverance

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