Federal Grant Opportunities
May 22
Nationwide, budgets are under significant pressure. Despite the challenges, the United States Government has made available billions of dollars in funds to support or create programs, which can breathe life back into crippled budgets.
The presentation of an organized, logical proposal is the most effective means of communicating to a reviewer the details of the proposed work and the organizational skills of the investigator.
Putting Your Idea to Work! No matter how good your ideas or noble your intentions, you must translate them into a specific, sensible set of activities in order to get funding. Potential sponsors must know what you actually plan to do in order to determine whether investing in your project represents an effective use of their resources.
This guidebook for proposal writing should only be used as general guidelines. The specific content of many proposals will be outlined in RFP’s (request for proposals), RFQ’s (request for quotes, or PS’s (proposal solicitations). Always consider these as the overriding guidelines. In fact, many of these documents are very literal and specific in the content they ask for. Proposals can often be written by simply following the guidance given in the RFP.
South Carolina faces a potentially troublesome future with the rate of high school dropouts in the state. The implications of this trend not only influence the immediate earning potential of a dropout, but reach far into the future with implications for public welfare.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown that high school dropouts earn an average under $20,000 annually (female dropouts age 25-34 earn less than $15,000) compared to their high school graduate counterparts who earn $28,800. The average annual income for an adult with a bachelor’s degree jumps to $46,300. Over the course of a thirty year working career, a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree will earn almost $750,000 (with no adjustments for inflation) more than a high school dropout. Read the rest of this story »
The continued trend of high school dropouts in our public schools has placed South Carolina in a precarious position for its policy in dealing with what will be a costly legacy.
There are a number of organizations that examine and report on dropout rates for South Carolina. The most recent data analysis indicates the cohort graduation rate of the class of 2008 was only 61 percent- or a dropout rate of 39 percent (the SC Department of Education reports a dropout rate of less than 4 percent each year since 1999). Read the rest of this story »
