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At the Wabash Center we like to think of our funded grant projects as a community of discourse. Like an on going discussion. We hope that each new project will pick up the conversation and bring it a step further. Develop it in a new way.

When we read a grant proposal, we’re looking for evidence that you have familiarized yourself with this community of discourse. Otherwise we find ourselves funding the same projects over and over again. Each new school or group of teachers learns again what a previous group has already discovered.

So when you’re planning your grant project, be sure to consult our web page database of previously funded projects. Each record contains a “proposal abstract” briefly describing the project, and a “learning abstract” written after the project was completed.

And each grant is identified by the project director’s name and institution. We encourage you to get in touch with these people and ask them about their projects.

What did they set out to do? Why? What did they learn? What did they wish they had done differently? What would be the next steps in their project?

How is your context similar or different? How can you learn from their success and failures? Perhaps they will share their project proposal with you. Perhaps you can learn from how they budgeted different elements of the project – and what things really cost.

You can find previous projects that are addressing a similar or related issue to the project you’re imagining. Or perhaps you’re planning a large conference and you could learn from another large conference project we funded, on a completely different topic.

Familiarizing yourself with projects that we’ve already funded will improve the mechanics of your proposal, and also result in a more significant project – a project that contributes to the emerging conversation about teaching and learning in theology and religion.