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Weekly updates on the class material, outside findings, local agencies, and interviews.
Spring Break: A Community Engaged Week
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." -Nelson Mandela While many people spend their Spring Break...
Big Brothers Big Sisters Site Visit
Today, Morgan and I had our first site visit with our grant partners Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg. We met with Assistant...
Communication and Preparation for First Meetings With Organizations
Over the last two weeks, we selected and contacted our assigned organizations. Once the organizations were selected from the list of...
Letters of Acceptance and Rejection
In our last class we discussed the development and structure of a needs statement in the grant writing process. We went over how a needs...
Student Interview
Denise is one of our students in our grant writing class, so I decided to get to know her a bit better by asking why she chose to be in...
A Student's Field Experience
On January 27, I visited Avante aging home. Prior to entering the building I felt a sense of nervousness inside me. Being in Harrisonburg...
The Four R's
The four Rs are principles that help the program make decisions, evaluate its progress, and improve it. They also allow families to have...
Narrowing Down The Letters of Intent
The JMU Grant Writing class set a hard deadline of 11:59pm on February 14 for letters of intent from prospective agencies. At the start...
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