Grant Master Plan
Articulates the specific problem or need the project will address, supported by relevant data, statistics, and qualitative evidence to establish urgency and relevance.
What is the Statement of Need?
The narrator is a character in the story, using "I" to tell their own experience.
What is First Person?
The ability to plan and control how time is spent on specific activities to work efficiently and meet all project deadlines. This is critical for balancing multiple projects and maintaining a work-life balance.
What are time management skills?
The comma placed before the conjunction in a list of three or more items.
What is the Oxford comma or serial comma?
Awarded to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
What is the John Newbery Medal?
Provides information about the applying organization's mission, history, experience, and qualifications to build credibility with the funder.
What is the Organizational History/Background?
An external narrator tells the story using "he," "she," or "they".
What is Third Person?
Establishing a visible presence to your target audience. This can include owning your own media channels and leveraging others' reach to gain credibility and attract opportunities.
What is your platform?
A long punctuation mark used to set apart parenthetical information, introduce a summary, or indicate an abrupt change in thought.
What is an Em Dash?
Awarded to a distinguished work of fiction published in book form by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. (This also the name of the top honor given for exceptional journalism.)
What is the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
The core narrative that details the planned activities, methods, and strategies for how the project will be implemented.
What is the Project/Program Description?
The reader is directly addressed as a character, using "you". This is rare in fiction.
What is Second Person?
The practice of engaging in clear, professional, and consistent dialogue with clients to manage expectations, negotiate contracts, provide progress updates, and deliver constructive feedback.
What are communication skills?
Connects two closely related independent clauses.
What is a semi-colon?
Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
What is the Randolph Caldecott Medal?
A detailed breakdown of all project expenses (personnel, equipment, materials, etc.) with a narrative that justifies each cost and shows how funds will be used responsibly.
What is the Budget?
The narrator is all-knowing, with access to the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
Managing the business side of freelancing, including setting rates, invoicing clients, tracking income and expenses, paying taxes, and using legally sound contracts that outline payment terms and scope of work.
What are financial management skills?
Encloses direct speech.
What are quotation marks?
Science fiction's most prestigious award, voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention, with categories for different word counts (novel, novella, short story).
What is the Hugo award?
Describes how the project's success and impact will be measured and assessed, using specific performance indicators and data collection methods.
What is the Evaluation Plan?
A POV technique that deeply immerses the reader in a single character's experience. It minimizes narrative distance by cutting "filter words" and internal narrator "telling," making every word come from the character's immediate perception and voice.
What is Deep POV or Close Third?
Narrowed focus in specific areas or types of writing to become an expert and market your services more effectively.
What is a Specialist?
A combination of a question mark and an exclamation point, used to express surprise or disbelief in the form of a question.
What is an Interrobang?
Promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, or Ireland.
What is the Booker Prize?