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Hey Pat and Bonnie! We plugged in numbers --the narrative needs to match the plugged in numbers.

Budget Narrative:

**This narrative needs an overview, then add to bottom of budget page on Dollar General grant. Then, numbers in last years grants need reviewing to ensure the alignment of this years numbers. Input: Brian Sleevi, Jacob Grimes, Amanda Anseeuw

Essentially funding (suplemental to existing program), $20,00 adds to Even Start program. Mount Zion gives Even Start the space to provide services to adult eduation and child well being. Mount Zion focuses on families in faith. From the $20,00,

The amount of $17,414 from the Dollar General grant will provide a major portion of the paraprofessional salary (1 FTE) at Mt. Zion.  The paraprofessional would be the key piece to make this site a strong family literacy center.  With the hiring of this paraprofessional, a two-year-old classroom could be opened and partially staffed.  This paraprofessional would also make home visits to families enrolled in the adult basic education/GED classroom and provide parenting instructional support. 

The budget would also provide for $2,000 in supplies for interactive family literacy activities to be used in home visits.  Some of these materials would be available for checkout to the families and children’s books would be provided to families to give children access to high-quality children’s literature in their home.  The remainder of the amount, $586, will be used to provide professional development family literacy training to the paraprofessional, child care staff, and adult education staff.

Review

We are a recursive public! Let's double back so we can forge forward. As we narrowed our focus, we covered a lot!

Distinguishing between content/developmental editing, and copy-editing

Newsletter

Let's crowdsource Jacob and Jacob's newsletter. We need to get the word out!

Real-time Grant Writing Vol. 3

Pat Fried and Even Start project manager Bonnie Mettetal will join us for another all-together-now grant writing effort. The more we focus in on the minutiae of the text on the page, the more we clarify the steps we need to take to reach our goals.

Even Start:

• Adult Literacy
• Parenting
• Interactive Literacy Activities
• Early Childhood Education

Two Bits

Chris Kelty's Two Bits will continue to be our common text for next week, as well. Let's discuss the writing Brian, Rich, Craig, and Maria have posted and think about how Kelty's content and his way of doing anthropology apply to our technical writing collective.

Status Reports

By next Tuesday, we will post progress reports/proposals with timelines. Let's apply group-think to each spoke in the wheel, and turn, turn, turn.

The Times they are a Changin'

Discuss.

tags of the day (add to this list): developmental/content editing, civic rhetoric, rhetorical theory, document design, service learning

Next Week

reflection piece

proposal