I did not feel alien — I was born in this country, as my parents had been, and I donned my Yale sweatshirt without a sense of imposture — but I seized upon the opportunity I'd been granted to learn with an energy that seemed slightly foreign.
It may take over two weeks for the grant writer to learn your organization, its functions and its needs.
One of the capacity-building opportunities that Segal Family Foundation offers to its partners is a small grant to support "Learning Visits" to see other SFF partners in action.
"When arts organizations lose a grant, they have to learn to either reduce their budgets or have developed other sources of funding," said Michael M. Kaiser, the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, whose DeVos Institute of Arts Management has helped train grantees in areas like strategic planning, fund-raising and financial management.
The class of 82 had all directed films before – maybe not always great ones, but films that granted the opportunity to learn, to see what worked and what didn't.
The unjustified arrests and military operations must come to an end and Turkey's Kurds, after decades of struggle, must be granted the right to learn and pray in our own language and exercise self-government in our cities and towns.
Reviewing grant proposals enables you to "learn how to get to the point quickly," says Peterson.
Launched in September 2007 for PBS KIDS to critical acclaim, Super WHY! received a prestigious Ready to Learn Grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. Department of Education.
Parnell can throw a baseball 100 miles an hour, a gift that has granted him the chance to learn how to close games for the Mets.
PBS has two other new literacy-promoting programs this fall, "Word World" and "Super Why!," both aimed at preschoolers and both recipients of Ready to Learn grants from the federal Education Department.
Middle-class people often take the ability to learn for granted, as if it were natural, rather than an acquired skill.
