Crafting a Proposal with the Funder in Mind
During our last webinar (Navigating the Postdoc Funding Landscape) Rachel shared her tips on navigating the postdoc funding landscape: map your career, survey the landscape, engage and adjust, plan for persistence, and craft your story. Today, she drills down on the last, how to craft your story and proposal with the funder in mind.
Rachel Noble-Varney
Rachel has a master’s in fine arts in creative writing from The Ohio State University and a bachelor of science degree in anthropology and sociology from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She began her career working in nonprofit management at the Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force in Portland, Oregon, a city she still loves. After returning to central Kentucky, Rachel served as the assistant director for the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in downtown Lexington, managing networks of AmeriCorps members and supervising literacy and literary arts programming.
Upon completing her MFA, in 2008, Rachel entered the world of higher education, working at Berea College as associate director of grant services. She also continued to work as an adjunct instructor, teaching poetry, business writing, composition, and interdisciplinary social science courses. Prior to joining the Kentucky Geological Survey, Rachel worked as a Proposal Development Officer at the University of Kentucky, helping researchers to create and manage proposals for grants and research projects.
