FOUNDATION AND GRANT RESEARCH FOR THE TEXAS

BOYS RANCHBrian Davis

MJ Dougherty IVStephanie GuerrantENGL 3365 – 023

Fall 2009

Who, What, Why???

Bob Mize, Director of Development, of the Texas Boys Ranch

Recommendation Criteria: Ease of application How much money is granted # of submissions allowed per year How close of a match to the TBR

Top 3 list

Brainstorming

Who our client was What he needed us to do for him Where/how to conduct our research How to organize our research What criteria we would use to evaluate

the various foundations

Outlining

Executive Summary Statement of Purpose Intro to report

Recommendation Background

Background on the Texas Boys Ranch Body

Where and how we obtained research What organizations we found Criteria table of organizations Recommendation

Conclusion Overview of the report Recommendation

Writing

Template Organization information

Formatting

We created our own template Executive Summary Table of Contents Headings

16 pt, Times New Roman, Bold Sub-headings

12 pt, Times New Roman, Bold Text

12 pt, Times New Roman, Single Spaced, and Double between paragraphs, with bulleted lists

Citations Footnotes

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Editing

Stephanie will edit the report We will consult Dr. Fricke as well MJ will edit the formatting

Challenges

Font and layout Communication Writing styles