Foundation Grant Writing demo
Foundation relations officers draft proposals from program data, budgets and guidelines 1:34
What the demo shows
Foundation relations officers draft proposals from program data, budgets and guidelines
Seven agents work beside the grant writer. The Guideline agent reads the call and draws the proposal as section blocks sized to each limit. The Fact agent fills them with figures from institutional research, aggregates only, small cells withheld under FERPA. The Budget agent builds the budget from ERP rates and checks the narrative against it. The Reviewer agent scores the draft as the funder's program staff would, and the Drafting agent proposes the fix from approved sources. The writer accepts or rejects every text; the Dean, Institutional Research, the Controller and the Executive Director each sign their own part.
Transcript
- Foundation Grant Writing drafts proposals from program data, budgets and funder guidelines.
- Brandvale writes seventy a year, each with its own limits and rubric.
- Each section is drawn to the funder's limit: the need runs 2,410 of 2,500.
- Every figure is cited: eighty-seven percent placed, a $31.40 median wage.
- Counts under ten are withheld, then rolled up across three cohorts.
- The reviewer agent scores it as the funder would: seventy-six of a hundred.
- Sustainability gets two of five: no plan after year three.
- The Drafting agent writes one from the board-approved budget line, and cites the resolution.
- Jonah accepts it and two smaller fixes. The score rises to eighty-two.
- Then the Dean confirms a changed figure, the Controller signs the budget, and only then can the Executive Director approve submission. All logged.
- Seventy-six became eighty-two before the funder read a word.
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The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.