Course Description
This is a project-based course where you do grant research and develop a comprehensive grant proposal for an organization. In this course you will learn to conduct grant research. You will also develop individual components of grants including letters, need for support, organizational background, program description, evaluation, budget and sustainability. Your final project will be a grant that you should be able to submit to a potential funder. In this course, you will synthesize a major doctoral project combining theoretical and practical research related to grant writing, specifically for your context.
Course Outcomes
- Research grants and develop systems for identifying grant prospects that will fit with your organization’s strategies and capabilities.
- Develop individual components of grants including letters, need for support, organizational background, program description, evaluation, budget and sustainability.
- Develop systems for handling the relational element of getting your grant approved including identifying contacts, getting meetings, presenting your opportunity in person and how review and approval processes work.
- Write professional grant proposals that present your organization in a way that maximizes your chance of getting approved.
DOLI Degree Program Outcomes
Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an (I) for Introduce, (D) for Develop and an (M) for Mastery. After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:
- Research methods. Apply action research methods to practical research topics in the field.
- Diffusion of Innovation. Utilize technology and relational networking to help diffuse innovations within a community of practice.
- Values Alignment. To develop a theological vision and to align your organization’s strategy, culture and systems with that vision to avoid secularization and mission drift.
- Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a strategic plan for starting or growing an organization.
- Social Entrepreneurship. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
- Action Research Project. Synthesize action research with theory and practice to solve a practical challenge facing your organization and/or the larger field.
Concentration Outcomes
- 7a. Executive Leadership & Fundraising. Develop and implement plans to grow an organization in its impact, financial health and relational health. (M)
- 7b. Nonprofit Program Leadership & Social Entrepreneurship. Improve the effectiveness of nonprofit programs by implementing best practices.
- 7c. Education Leadership and Innovation. Apply disruptive and continuous innovation principles to designing courses and programs to provide radically affordable and practical online education.
- 7d. Organizational Culture and Change Management. Develop and implement plans to improve organizational health and adapt to change.
- 7e. Trauma-Informed Counseling Management. Develop and implement plans to establish trauma-informed culture of health throughout an organization.
Broad Institutional Doctoral Outcomes
- I1. Knowledge (Head). Apply a wide range of tools to help solve society’s great problems by shifting from a single lens/tool/discipline to a multiple lens, multifaceted Biblical understanding of reality.
- I2. Skills (Hands). Develop the skills you need for the next position in your development as a leader by shifting from mastery & understanding of a division in an organization to a comprehensive systemic mastery/understanding needed to lead across the organization. (D)
- I3. Attitudes/Character (Heart). Develop the character and discipline needed to step into greater leadership roles by losing the bias of your old position to gain broader perspective and intellectual humility needed to accelerate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| Karsh, E., & Fox, S. (2019). The Only Grant-Writing Book You’ll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets. Fifth Edition. Basic Books. ISBN: 1541617819 | $20.00 |
| O’Neal-McElrath, T. (2013). Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing and Writing Successful Proposals. Fifth Edition. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 1118378342 | $25.00 |
| Tuition | $ |
| Total Cost of Course: | $ |