<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hi all: </font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">please feel free to distribute this call widely--research on grant writing occurs in many different fields, so if you have colleagues in different disciplines, I'd be grateful if you could pass this along. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please feel free to email me with questions.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">---</font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><b><span style="line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Grants and Grant Writing as a Rhetorical Activity</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><b><span style="line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Call for Proposals</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Approximately 1.56 million nonprofits
were registered with the Internal Revenue Service in 2015 and the nonprofit
sector contributed an estimated $985.4 billion to the US economy in 2015,
composing 5.4 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). In 2017,
total private giving from individuals, foundations, and businesses totaled
$410.02 billion (Giving USA Foundation 2018), an increase of 3 percent from
2016 after adjusting for inflation.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="gmail-MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span class="gmail-MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span style="line-height:107%;color:black">[i]</span></span></span></a> Individual donors give
approximately 78% of all donations. As a result, most of the research on
charitable giving has focused on individuals, donations, and fundraising via
organized events such as a capital campaign or end of the year campaigns. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Grants and grant writing, on the other
hand, have all but been ignored as an area of inquiry. The Science of
Philanthropy Initiative conference, the only conference devoted to empirical
work on philanthropy, did not have a single panel connected to grant writing in
2018 and, in 2017, had one that focused on how state laws affected giving. Research
coming out of The Lily Family School of Philanthropy focuses exclusively on
donor-based giving patterns (<a href="https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/research/current-research/index.html">https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/research/current-research/index.html</a>).
The Foundation Center’s research focuses on trends in the philanthropic field.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Similarly, Writing Studies and
Professional, Technical, and Scientific Communication has failed to address
grant writing as an area of possible research. In 2009, <i>TCQ</i> published
“System Mapping: A Genre Field Analysis of the National Science Foundation
Grant Proposal and Funding Process.” (vol 19 issue 1). CCCC had a grant focused
panel in 2015 as well as a single presentation focused on the performativity of
grant writing and a grant writing workshop in 2019. The ATTW book series
contains one chapter </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">“Teaching Proposal
Writing: Advocacy and Autonomy in the Technical Communication Classroom” by
Diane Martinez in </span><i><span style="color:black">Citizenship
and Advocacy in Technical Communication. </span></i><span style="color:black">Two textbooks—both in the now defunct Allyn &
Bacon Series in Technical Communication--have been published in publishers
devoted to <i>Writing Studies or PTSC: </i></span><span class="gmail-a-size-extra-large"><i><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)">Grant Seeking in an
Electronic Age</span></i></span><span class="gmail-a-size-extra-large"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)"> </span></span><span style="color:black">by </span><span class="gmail-author"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)">Victoria Mikelonis</span></span><span class="gmail-a-color-secondary"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)">, </span></span><span class="gmail-author"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)">Signe T. Betsinger</span></span><span class="gmail-a-color-secondary"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)">, and </span></span><span class="gmail-author"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17)">Constance E. Kampf </span></span><span class="gmail-author"><span style="color:black">and </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Proposals-2nd-Richard-Johnson-Sheehan/dp/0205583148/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2E7E1W0Q0PNC0&keywords=writing+proposals+2nd+edition+by+richard+johnson-sheehan&qid=1561668598&s=books&sprefix=Richard+Sheehan+%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-4"><span class="gmail-a-size-medium"><i><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Writing Proposals</span></i></span><span class="gmail-a-size-medium"><span style="color:black;text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span></a></span><span class="gmail-a-size-base"><span style="color:black">by </span></span><span style="color:black">Richard Johnson-Sheehan.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%;color:black">Given the impact of grant writing on our
GNP and the fact that writing studies and professional, technical, and
scientific communication students often go into grant writing or non-profit
work, this area is ripe for exploration and development. Grant writing is </span><span style="line-height:107%;color:black">an
extremely high-stakes game for those involved: for small organizations, grants
are often a significant portion of a non-profit’s budget; for the foundations,
awarding money puts their reputation on the line; and for the writer, it can
mean continued employment and existence of the organization. Yet, we know
hardly anything about grant writing as a rhetorical activity.</span><span style="line-height:107%"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We invite you to help fill this gap in
our research. Possible topics might include: </font></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">Grant writing and reading as rhetorical
activity</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">How is audience conceptualized during
grant writing and /or reading</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">The performativity of grant writing/reading</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">Collaboration during the grant writing
process</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">Grant writing and social justice</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">Grants and Intersectionality</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">Theory and grant writing</span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in"><font face="arial, sans-serif">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
</span><span style="color:black">Grant writing and the PTSW curriculum</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This collection is specifically aimed at
helping us understand grant writing and reading as a rhetorical activity.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please send proposals (500 words or less)
to</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Barbara L’Eplattenier</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:bleplatt@ualr.edu">bleplatt@ualr.edu</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Deadline
for Proposals: November 15, 2019. Please feel free to contact me if you have
questions. </span></b><b></b></font></p>
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Nonprofit Sector in Brief 2018: Public Charites, Giving, and Volunteering.
<a href="https://nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2018#the-nonprofit-sector-in-brief-2018-public-charites-giving-and-volunteering">https://nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2018#the-nonprofit-sector-in-brief-2018-public-charites-giving-and-volunteering</a></span><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font></h2>
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