Details:

Your instructor has returned your Week 4 Individual Project Key Assignment with comments and suggestions to improve your overall plan. Additionally, you have had the opportunity to discuss your case and plan with your peers.

Assignment Guidelines

• Revise and amend your Week 4 Key Assignment by adding what you learned in the Discussion Board posts following the task, as well as taking into consideration your instructor’s comments. Add this to your plan, and submit your final draft.
• Address the following, and add your responses to your Key Assignment Final Draft:
  • Continuing with the grant proposal that you outlined in Week 4, research funding sources for your proposal.
  • Searching the Internet, including private, local, state, and federal Web sites, locate at least 3 grant opportunities that might be pursued for your grant proposal.
  • Provide a brief overview of each funding opportunity and how your grant proposal relates to the opportunity.
  • In addition to the overview, you should rank the 3 grant opportunities based on what makes the most sense for your agency.
  • Lastly, in Week 3, you gave a detailed description of at least 4 of the elements in a grant proposal.
  • You are now to complete those 4 sections of the grant proposal based on your outline and your supervisor’s (instructor’s) feedback from Week 4.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

Professor comments

Strengths: Your work was submitted on time. There was a meaningful effort to meet expectations for the draft of a grant proposal. There was a description of the technology program to improve upon manufacturing processes at an organization where you serve as an assistant product manager. The need for technology support was explained. You outlined some activities that were necessary. A grantor would be curious to know more.

Opportunities for improvement: What is the organization's name? Since the organization seems to be a for profit entity, will you be able to identify grant funding sources?

Additional comments: As was reviewed during Chats 4 and 5, the Unit 4 IP serves as a critical foundation for the final assignment related to the key assignment, the Unit 5 IP. Feedback from classmates and the instructor will continue to be helpful for guiding your efforts. The Unit 4 and Unit 5 IPs provide you with meaningful opportunities to apply lessons learned to an initiative of interest for you while creating meaningful information to guide your supervisor’s decision about a grant opportunity for the department.

I look forward to reviewing your update of this IP, learning about funding opportunities for your proposed initiative, and reviewing your completion of selected sections of a grant proposal for the Unit 5 IP. Be proud of your efforts to date!