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Juri Brilts has been a professional grant writer for several decades. He has raised more than $500 million during his career, working as CEO for nonprofit organizations and as grant director at K-12 institutions, universities and community colleges. At the California Community Colleges Technology Center he has consulted for Apple and worked with Google and Sun on statewide technology grants. He has presented on technology grants at the e-Learning National Conference, and he is a member of the Council for Resource Development, the National Council of Fundraising Executives and the International Society of Research Administrators. His experience bridges both institutional fundraising and grant development.
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tech grants: National Science Foundation
Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 Written by Juri Brilts Monday, 25 January 2010
I was thinking recently about a grant that Butte-Glenn Community College District (BGCCD) submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) two years ago. This prompted me to look at grants targeted to community colleges. The NSF Advanced Technology Education (ATE) is specifically designed for community colleges.
There are several initiatives under this program:
- Small Grants for Institutions New to the ATE Program
- Planning Grants for Centers
- National Centers of Excellence
- Regional Centers of Excellence
- Resource Centers
- Program for Technician Education
The NSF ATE proposal is a two-step process:
- An optional preliminary proposal is due via NSF Fastlane in April. NSF staff reviews your preliminary concept and gives you a thumbs up or thumbs down and suggestions for proposal improvement.
- A full proposal is due via NSF Fastlane in October.
BGCCD had submitted a proposal for the Institutions New to the ATE Program. In January, we received an e-mail from the NSF program officer. The NSF was considering funding our proposal for Green Building Systems but required answers to ten questions. The principal investigator and I spent the better part of a month responding. Researching and writing the responses to the questions was almost harder than developing the actual proposal. Early that summer, we were awarded the two-year grant.
From our experience with this grant, we submitted a center grant this past fall and are awaiting word whether it is being considered. <>
If you plan on writing an NSF grant, Susan Finger of Carnegie Mellon University created a grantwriting Web site you might find helpful: Advice on Writing Proposals to the National Science Foundation.
If you have won an NSF grant and would like to share your success, please contact me at briltsju@butte.edu.