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Length: 850 to 1000 words Part I: Background Part II: Instructions PART I: BACKGROUND Purpose: You have been hired as the grant writer for Workshop Houston, a local after-school program in Houston, that is seeking funding to expand the organization and support its young student members. Using the background information provided below, write a persuasive grant proposal requesting the Weaver Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Your Employer: Workshop Houston Background: Workshop Houston was built on the belief that learning is more than just what happens in a classroom. Founded by four Oberlin College graduates in 2005, Workshop Houston has grown into a well-established youth development agency and important neighborhood resource. Using a hands-on, arts-based educational philosophy to respond to the needs of the community, your program has served thousands of youth Houstonians through after school and summer programs that help students to build technical skills, develop a meaningful creative practice, while building academic confidence. Workshop Houston website: https://www.workshophouston.org/ " Who You Are | The Mission Workshop Houston's goal is to provide youth with creative, technical and educational resources. Our vision is to lay the groundwork for a just society by creating a community that provides youth with support, expanded opportunities and alternative definitions of success. What You Do | The 4 Workshops Workshop Houston offers innovative youth development programs through four studio/classrooms: 1. Beat Shop (music production) 2. Media Shop (graphic design) Dance Shop (dance and hip hop), and the Style Shop (fashion and graphic design.) Review the detailed description of the 4 workshops: https://www.workshophouston.org/pages/the-shops/The US federal government offers grant awards (funding) for many fields related to business, technology, science, the environment, art, and education. The National Endowment of the Arts is one government agency that focuses on art and education-for this grant proposal assignment you will be writing to the NEA to request a Weaver grant award. Request For Proposal (RFP) for Weaver Grant Award: The Weaver Grant is the National Endowment for the Arts' education and community-based grant award. The NEd is requesting proposals from after-school programs that make an impact on underserved communities in the United States. Programs that meet the Weaver grant criteria will seek to close the opportunity gaps for children from lower-income neighborhoods. Chosen programs awarded the Weaver grant offer activities that involve art, education, culture, and design, while seeking to enhance the creativity, critical thinking, and independence of its student members. Part II: ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS The Workshop Houston campus (located on 3039 Holman Street) has served at-risk youth from underserved communities for nearly two decades. The tutors, teachers, and volunteers at Workshop Houston are dedicated to offering students an artistic, educational, and skills-based outlet in the form of its 4 Workshop Programs. But now the organization wants to expand and make an even greater impact on the community's youth Purpose: You are the grant writer for Workshop Houston. You have been hired to draft a grant proposal applying for the Weaver Grant Award-a financial grant award that ranges between $30,000 to $200,000 dollars. Background: Workshop Houston currently offers four workshops (Beat Shop, Dance Shop, Media Shop, and Style Shop). The popularity of these workshops, however, has encouraged the nonprofit to expand and develop a fifth workshop What am I doing? Grant Proposal: 1) You will be proposing the development of a fifth workshop based on any artistic or educational subject that interests you. Your shop will be taught at the Workshop Houston campus- 2) Whatever new shop you envision, it must be aligned with the values and mission of Workshop Houston (review their website). I expect you to propose a Workshop that provides a curriculum focused on engaging, hands-on, and impactful lessons that encourages learning and the development of specific skills. 3) You will need to explain how your after-school program operates. What skills and lessons are you hoping to teach? What materials will you need for your workshop to function? Optional: If Workshop Houston already offers a program similar to a subject that interests you, you can still use it as the focus of your own. For example, the Media Shop is focused on graphicTry to be original and add your own ideas to make it distinct from the existing shop. Funding Amount Your budget will request a targeted funding amount that will range between $30,000 to $200,000 dollars. Your budget will tell me how money you need to develop your workshop for one year. Length: Write a single-spaced grant proposal. The word count is 900 to 1000 words, but your grant might be several pages long if you choose to include any images, pictures, charts, or tables. Audience: You have flexibility with the audience for your new workshop. You can chooge to target either high-school teenagers OR middle-school aged children. Forbidden Topics: Please no "childhood obesity" or "sports" or "fitness" or "exercise-based" programs.5) Statement of Problem (350 to 400 words approximately) Questions to help you develop your statement of problem: Remember, you are trying to create an after-school program for students who come from lower-income communities in the Houston area. a. To be persuasive, your will need to provide data, research, or reference the testimony of experts on your chosen problem. 1. What is the problem the community faces and that your workshop is attempting to address? Find research that supports your claims. 2. What are the benefits to students who attend your program? Find research that supports your claims. Note: Your Statement of Problem and Workshop Plan are closely related. Your workshop is an attempt to help students develop or gain experience in some important skillset related to either art or education. Example: If you propose an Astronomy Workshop as your Plan, then your argument about the Problem would focus on the importance of science education. " Problem: You might then research the problem of low-science literacy among underserved students in the United States. You could also find data about low math test scores and weak performance in the sciences. Benefits: You could also find data about the benefits of a STEM education and the skills your students will be developing if they attend your Astronomy Workshop. For example, you could research the cognitive value of studying astronomy, emphasizing the math, physics, and science skills involved in studying the field. Optional: In your Statement of Problem, you might include some data arguing for the positive impact of after-school programs and the difference they make in the lives of engaged participants. Audience: In your statement of problem be sure to address your community-teens, adolescents, or young adults growing up in underserved communities. The students who enroll in Workshop Houston disproportionately attend underfunded public schools that either lack after school programs, or offer limited extracurricular activities. 6) Plan: Your Plan is one paragraph that establishes the concept and goal of your workshop. a. Discuss the subject and purpose of your program and identify the results you are hoping for the students who attend your workshop. . How will your students benefit? What are the skills, talents, abilities, mindset, or character traits that you hope to inspire in them?10) References: a. Your proposal will have a research component that will include a minimum of 3-4 outside sources to support your argument. Online or web sources are allowed, but should come from credible places such as government websites, agencies, studies, newspapers, magazines b. Sources should be documented using correct APA format for in-text citations and work cited page. C. Your textbook includes information APA format, but below I have also included links to the North Carolina Writing Center: d. Most of your data will be used to build your "statement of problem." However, some students will insert a data point or important fact into their Overview, Plan, or Conclusion-this is an optional strategy. GRADING CRITERIA: Your proposal will be graded according to the criteria by which proposals are typically accepted or rejected. A successful grant proposal will: * Demonstrate an understanding of Workshop Houston's values and mission statement. Bo organized into clear sections with proper heading:. Illustrate the soundness practicality of the plan being offered. Identify a relevant problem in the community and a feasible approach to its solution. Illustrate the quality of the project's organization and management. Demonstrate an ability to control costs. Include a research component with correct citations. Demonstrate the qualifications of the staff to be assigned to the project. Use persuasive techniques (including a clear focus on audience needs and benefits, honest and supportable claims, appropriate detail, readability, convincing language, accessible and attractive page design, proper citations of any sources or contributors, etc.) . Display correct grammar and mechanics. Demonstrate concision, clarity, and fluency