“100+ STEM Funding Opps for 2010″ Guide

Secor Strategies works with a variety of clients to help them identify funding opportunities for education programs focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).  We continually search numerous data sources, make phone calls, and network professionally in an effort to uncover specific opportunities that match up with our clients.

What we’ve discovered is that we typically have to read through at least 10 funding opportunities to locate one good opportunity worth a client’s consideration.  This might even be a conservative estimate.  It’s almost like the movie business.  A movie may only be 90 minutes long, but the director probably had to shoot hours and hours of footage in the process.  The unused shots hit the editing room floor just like our unused grant research hits the wastebasket.

Hence, I’ve been working on ways in which we can recycle this unused content into a meaningful way that can also generate a revenue stream for us in the process.

The first thing we did was to set up a Twitter page called http://www.Twitter.com/STEMGrants .  We are currently posting an average of about 12 STEM funding opportunities each week to this twitter page.  We hope to build up a following of people that might have a use for STEM funding related products and services.

The second thing we did was to design a brief 7 question survey that queries people about what types of actual STEM related products and services that they most need and want.   This survey is found on the website http://www.STEMGrants.com .

The third thing we did was create an incentive for people to complete this survey.  We developed a comprehensive 10 page guide entitled “100+ STEM Funding Opportunities for 2010 and Beyond”. We spent more than 30 hours compiling and organizing this guide which contains links to STEM Funding Opportunities within the categories of Grants, Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships, Internships, and Competitions.

The response to the guide has been amazing.  In the first 14 days, we emailed out more than 50 copies to individuals who completed the survey, and the demand has not stopped since then.

So the question is – have you requested your free copy of “100+ STEM Funding Opportunities for 2010 and Beyond”?  If not, simply take the quick survey at http://www.STEMGrants.com .  All we want is your input.