4. Identify Partners and Resources
Leverage proven institutional (and off-campus) resources and expertise whenever possible. The right partner provides:
- complementary expertise (e.g. service learning, diversity, K-12 pedagogy)
- stakeholder access
- participant recruiting and assessment mechanisms
- dissemination avenues
- potential for sustainability
What do partners need from you?
- Evidence you have done your homework and know their mission and key initiatives
- A project elevator pitch (including identified gap) so they understand your focus
- Time to integrate with your team...last minute requests do not work!
- A win-win idea rather than one-sided benefits
- A realistic budget
- Instructions and templates for contributing text and documents
What do you need from partners?
- Ideas for initiatives that can help address your identified gap
- Help strategizing for activity timeline
- Timely response to document/strategy development
- Description of their facilities, equipment, and resources that will be available to your project
- Detailed budget numbers
- Access to participant recruiting and assessment mechanisms
- Institutional permission, if necessary
How do you locate a potential partner?
- Familiarize yourself first with department and college-level resources
- Network to learn about cross-campus and external programs
- Review links below as sample internal and external programs
Sample Purdue Campus Programs
K-12 Education
Service Learning and Learning Communities
Workforce Development
Sample External Partners
- Indiana State Museum
- Girls Who Code
- NASA Globe
- https://www.globe.gov/
- Imagination Station
- First
- Science on tap
- Purdue Global
Questions?
If you have any questions or would like to request hands-on help from our team of grant writers, please contact Sally Bond at sbond@purdue.edu.
