Grant proposal on air pollution solutions due to fracking

ENVS 190 Capstone Presentation & Paper Guidelines
adapted from Karen Holl, capstone 2009
Overview
All students will write a short grant proposal. The proposal can be to conduct research on an
environmental question or to implement an environmental project. For example, if you were interested
in the use of vegetative buffer strips to uptake agricultural pollution into Elkhorn Slough, you might
write a proposal to: 1) study the effectiveness of different revegetation strategies, 2) survey farmers’
attitudes towards implementing buffer strips, 3) fund a program to educate farmers about the costs and
benefits of buffers strips, or 4) install buffer strips along a particularly impacted location. You may
either write the proposal on a topic related to your presentation/paper or a topic that you have
researched for another class or job. The objective of this project is to give you experience in grant
writing, as almost all jobs in environmental studies (research, non-profit, government) involve some
grant writing.
The funder, Golden State Green, is a private endowment offering up to $10,000 for environmental
projects or research in the state of California.
Proposal format
Your entire proposal should be no more than 1200 words (excluding references). Use the following
format. Both research and project proposals use a similar format but vary somewhat in content.
Instructions in italics are for research proposals only and those that are underlined are for project
proposals only.
1. Background information – At the beginning of the proposal list the following information:
• Title of project
• Individual or Organization with a one-line description, e.g.
Joanna Ory – Graduate student in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa
Cruz
Coastal Watershed Council – non-profit organization that conducts water quality monitoring in
Santa Cruz County
• Your name (if you are representing an organization)
• Project summary (no more than 100 words)
• Amount of funding requested
2. Proposal Narrative
a. Statement of Problem or Need
• Start with the generalized problem as it occurs in your community and/or the general research
question.
• Move to the conditions that make this a problem and/or an interesting research question.
• Outline current resources that address this problem and/or past research that has been done on
this problem and identify gaps in those resources/research.
• Identify how your proposal will fill these gaps.
b. Project Objectives or Research Hypotheses
• What specific objectives are you trying to achieve or hypotheses are you testing?
c. Methods and Schedule
• Describe your methodology for achieving these objectives or testing these hypotheses.
• Include a timetable for completing the work.
d. Evaluation Criteria and Process
• How will you know whether you are achieving your objectives?
• What will you measure to evaluate your progress?
• How will you analyze your data?
• How will you disseminate your results?
e. Literature cited – at least 3 references, preferably peer-reviewed
f. Budget – include a detailed budget of costs including justification.
Schedule and evaluation
A draft proposal is due Aug. 14 in class. This draft will be peer-reviewed and also evaluated by one of
the instructors on the basis of content/strength of funding request, organization, providing requested
information, and style. The final proposal is due at the beginning of class on Aug. 21; it will be
evaluated based on the same criteria as the draft, as well as for addressing comments on the draft. The
final grant proposal should include a cover letter and the draft with comments.

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