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Raising Funds:Some advice for our PhD students
Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Twitter: @SimonTanner
15/04/2015 13:50 ENC Public Talk 19 February 2013 1
Getting started
• Formulate your ideas
• Develop project or proposal outline
• Identify potential funders
– matchmaking
• Prepare proposal
• Target the proposal
• If you get funds - administer the grant well
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Different Sources of Funding
• Foundations – public and private
• Public money
– Government funding
– Local / Regional funding
– Lottery funding
– Research Councils, etc.
• Corporate funding
• Private funds
– Personal wealth
– Community contribution
• Any other suggestions?@SimonTanner
Different Sources of FundingResearch Professional (VERY useful – can tailor searches according to disciplinary/funding type being sought)https://www.researchprofessional.com/
AHRChttp://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Funding-Opportunities.aspx
Leverhulme Trusthttp://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/funding.cfm
British Academyhttp://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/index.cfm
The Culture Capital Exchange (register for newsletter that can include funding opportunities)http://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/
NESTAhttp://www.nesta.org.uk/?gclid=CP6Z3NiJ-MQCFa7KtAodv0EA6g
UK Research Office (mainly concentrates on EU funding, not so relevant for PhDs)http://www.ukro.ac.uk/Pages/UKRO.aspx
Remember to check your eligibility for everything you look at
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Different Sources of Funding
www.postgraduate-funding.com
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Different Sources of Funding
www.fundraisingdirectory.com
www.acf.org.uk
www.turn2us.org.uk
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Modify your approach
according to the opportunity
www.stapleytrust.org
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Modify your approach
according to the opportunity
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/supporting-culture-through-charitable.html
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The proposal
What is it?
• A written presentation to another party in order to gain its acceptance
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The functions of a proposal
• Represents a project, activity, program or function to undertake in response to a need
• Request for the allocation of resources
• Instrument of persuasion
• Promise to the funder to do certain things in certain ways
• A plan that serves as guidelines for the implementation of the activity
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Planning for Persuasion
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Cause & Effect?
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Planning for Impact
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The Funding Proposal • the need
– the proposed solution
– the result of the solution
– the market need and the audience needs
• the activities to be carried out
– the way they will be accomplished
– the number and type of staff needed
– the management of the project
– the required equipment and facilities
– the cost
– the starting and completion dates
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• Describes the conditions in a certain place at a certain time for a particular group of people
• Describes what needs to change or what will be changed by the proposal
• This is often the motivator
• If the funder agrees with the need, you have them “hooked”
Statement of problem/need/purpose
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The proposal: need
• Clear relationship to a mission and a purpose
• Focus on a need in a broader community, not on yourself
• Support assertions with evidence
• The need should be expressed in a way that is consistent with your ability to respond
• Make it easy to read; avoid jargon. Assume a non-expert reader
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The proposal: need
• Focus on what you can accomplish
• What need YOU have a solution for
• Collaborative projects are attractive to some funders
• Models
– if your solution can act as a model, mention this
– “addressing the need on a larger level through the
development of model program”
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Objectives/Strategies/Outcomes
• What will you accomplish?
– Derived directly from the need statement
• Indicate action and a measurable result
• How would the situation look if the need were satisfied?
– Who would benefit and how?
• State outcomes, not methods at this point
– the result of an activity, not the activity itself
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The proposal: methodology
• A detailed description of the activities to be done to achieve the objectives
– How are you going to achieve your goals and objectives?
• Why did you choose these methods?
– research findings, experts, past experience, etc.
• Evidence Based
• Be SMART:
– Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound
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The proposal: budget
• translates the methodology section into cash terms
• government sources require more detail than foundations (usually)
• follow funder forms and guidelines precisely
• Be realistic, even if it makes the project look expensive, and think of all the components
– don’t undercost just to get the money. You will regret it later
– don’t promise what you can’t deliver
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The proposal: evaluation
• Outputs are facts
• e.g. Online History Project
– number of items digitized
– number of users logged
– number of students who write essays based on web based materials
– number of teachers who use online resources
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The proposal: evaluation
• Outputs may not tell us if our goals and objectives were
met
• Evaluation - how did we do?
• Measure Outcomes & Impacts
– has our target audience changed or improved skills,
attitudes, knowledge, behavior, status, or life
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