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Making a Difference Grant

Any employee or employee group is eligible to apply for Making a Difference Grants. Prior to submitting your application, please discuss your project with your administrator to ensure that the project is not already included in the MCC budget. Selection is based on grant criteria including innovative teaching/learning and cultural/social/economic programming.

Innovative Teaching & Learning

Grant scoring will be based on these criteria:

  1. Projects should enhance student success at MCC.

  2. Projects should be consistent with MCC's mission to create opportunity through education.

  3. Projects should involve and benefit students as fully as possible.

  4. Projects that promote innovation and experimentation and impact a significant number of learners are encouraged.

  5. Special consideration will be given to new endeavors.

Cultural & Social & Economic Programming

Grant scoring will be based on these criteria:

  1. Projects should be consistent with the mission of MCC.

  2. Projects should enhance the greater-Montcalm learning community.

  3. Projects that impact a significant number of learners are encouraged.

  4. Special consideration will be given to new endeavors.

Award Process

  1. Review your proposal with your supervisor.

  2. Submit the Making a Difference Grant Application online. Submissions will be directed to MCC Executive Director for Institutional Advancement and the MCC Foundation Lisa Lund.

  3. MCC’s Executive Team will review the application. Reviewed applications will then be submitted to the MCC Foundation Grants Committee. The process may take up to six weeks. Projects should not be implemented prior to the grants committee’s review.

Fund Availability

Grant funds will be available immediately following the announcement of the awards.

The MCC Foundation will handle the disbursement of grant funds. An invoice or a purchase order is required before disbursement. MCC purchase orders should be used for purchases of equipment and supplies whenever possible. A copy of the invoices for purchases must be submitted promptly to the Foundation. The individual listed as the contact person on the grant application will be the only person who may authorize grant expenditures.

Funds must be used within one year of the award date unless prior arrangements have been made with the MCCF Executive Director.

Final Report

Grant recipients must submit a final report to the MCC Foundation upon completion of the project. Final reports should be submitted to MCC Executive Director for Institutional Advancement and the MCC Foundation Lisa Lund within one year of the award date.

The report should include:

  • A detailed accounting of actual expenditures.

  • A brief narrative regarding the implementation of the project and how the project furthered the mission of MCC.

  • An evaluation of the project demonstrating its impact.

  • A photograph or photographs of the project implementation, if possible.

Making a Difference Grant Application

Please provide a description of your project in 50 words
Please list the names and titles of those involved in project planning and implementation. List the grant contract person first.
Outline the project budget including a list of items needed and the estimated cost for each. Include the total request.
Explain how the project will further the mission of MCC.
Describe the number of people that will be impacted by this project.
Outline the objectives of the project. Project outcomes and objectives should be clear, measurable and tangible (e.g., the project will result in improved student learning, greater public awareness, new products, new or improved systems, replicable models, provision of services, research findings, etc.)
Explain in detail how the project will be evaluated. Discuss your methods for measuring the degree to which objectives and outcomes will be met and demonstrate an impact.
Outline additional sources of revenue, if any, that will be necessary to accomplish this project (e.g., college budget, other grants, etc.).
If this project is ongoing, outline plans for sustaining it after grant funds have been exhausted.
Please include additional information (including narrative and attachments) that will help the selection committee understand the project.
Contact Us. 

Lisa Lund, MCC Executive Director of the MCC Foundation  |  989-328-1284  |  lisal@montcalm.edu