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Jan

Innovation Grant Lab series: What does success look like? (January)

January 5, 2022Uncategorized

Image by Pixabay Hello, and Happy New Year! If you have followed our asynchronous workshop series, How to Design a Successful Innovation Grant, from the beginning — and have completed most of the “homework” — then this means you have trekked the most difficult part of the journey! It gets easier from here, I promise.… Continue Reading Innovation Grant Lab series: What does success look like? (January)

Dec

Innovation Grant Lab series: Add some secret sauce (December)

December 1, 2021Uncategorized

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Hello, and CONGRATULATIONS! If you have followed our asynchronous workshop series, How to Design a Successful Innovation Grant, from the beginning — and have completed most of the “homework” — then this means you have trekked the most difficult part of the journey! It gets easier from here, I… Continue Reading Innovation Grant Lab series: Add some secret sauce (December)

Oct

Innovation Grant Lab series: How to budget (November)

October 27, 2021Uncategorized

Hello, and welcome back to our asynchronous workshop series: How to Design a Successful Innovation Grant. The series began in September, and it will end in March 2022, the same month Innovation Grant proposals are due to the Virginia Western Educational Foundation. Hopefully this approach will help you slowly explore your ideas — on your… Continue Reading Innovation Grant Lab series: How to budget (November)

Sep

Innovation Grant Lab series: What problem are you trying to solve? (October)

September 28, 2021Uncategorized

Hello, and welcome back to the Innovation Lab! We just started an asynchronous workshop series: How to Design a Successful Innovation Grant, and there’s plenty of time to catch up. The series began in September, and it will end in March 2022, the same month Innovation Grant proposals are due to the Virginia Western Educational… Continue Reading Innovation Grant Lab series: What problem are you trying to solve? (October)

Sep

This is not a goodbye

September 22, 2021Uncategorized

Two years ago, I wrote what has become the most popular post on this grants blog: “Why I’m so excited about our G3 grant project” I can only guess the post is popular because prospective students are now Googling information about the state’s G3 program, and this page bubbles up in the search results. But… Continue Reading This is not a goodbye

Aug

Innovation Grant Lab series: Let’s put on our Thinking Caps (September)

August 31, 2021Uncategorized

Hello, and welcome to the Innovation Lab! This is a virtual lab … a digital makerspace where we ask a lot of questions, experiment, and play. Our first project is an asynchronous workshop series: How to Design a Successful Innovation Grant. The first step in the series begins on this blog today, and it will end in March… Continue Reading Innovation Grant Lab series: Let’s put on our Thinking Caps (September)

Aug

Welcome, innovators! The Innovation Grant Lab opens Sept. 1

August 25, 2021Uncategorized

Image from Pixabay I’m so excited to launch Virginia Western’s own Innovation Lab. Of course, this will be a virtual lab … a digital makerspace where we ask a lot of questions, experiment, and play. Our first project is an asynchronous workshop series: How to Design a Successful Innovation Grant. What are Innovation Grants? These… Continue Reading Welcome, innovators! The Innovation Grant Lab opens Sept. 1

Aug

September: Free professional learning opportunities

August 25, 2021Uncategorized

As you probably know, I’m a big fan of the Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander. Every Thursday afternoon, Alexander hosts some really fascinating higher education authors/leaders in a virtual forum that encourages questions from the audience. Back in March, I blogged about his conversation with Dr. Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University. Years ago,… Continue Reading September: Free professional learning opportunities

Aug

Let’s ROCK our priorities this semester

August 17, 2021Uncategorized

Image from The Mindful Manager I’ve written before about the book “Traction,” and how it has changed my life. “Traction” is where I encountered Stephen Covey’s “Rocks” analogy for the first time. The visual is powerful, so I promise reading this entire passage is worth it: Picture a glass cylinder set on a table. Next… Continue Reading Let’s ROCK our priorities this semester

Jul

Calendars, ready?: Adult Learner Summit schedule

July 29, 2021Uncategorized

Illustration by Crystal Hall Have you looked through the Fall 2021 In-Service Agenda yet? I’m a former calendar editor who LOVES to sift through itineraries, choosing my own adventures, so that’s what I’ve done below. The Adult Learner Summit, part of our five-year Get REAL project, is a series of sessions peppered throughout the week.… Continue Reading Calendars, ready?: Adult Learner Summit schedule

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Shelley Lyons is glad to be back on campus as she is a Virginia Western alum, and has served as the Administrative Officer for Grants Administration at Virginia Western since early 2022. Prior to VWCC, her career focus was within the Human Services and Arts fields. She wrote her first grant in 1996 on a whim and has continued to plan and learn since that time. She most enjoys seeing a well-planned project come to fruition, where funder, project manager and beneficiaries can all feel success and see impact.