Poverty Alleviation Through Action (PATA)
The UC Davis Blum Center for Developing Economies' Poverty Alleviation Through Action (PATA) grants are offered to highly motivated undergraduate students enrolled and in good standing at UC Davis. Awards can be used to pursue fieldwork abroad in a developing country or working domestically on poverty alleviation, inequality, and topics related to global development.
In this 8-week seminar, you will learn how to prepare a grant proposal for a Poverty Alleviation Through Action (PATA) grant (up to $2,500). Each workshop session builds on the previous week, and includes interactive written activities that will culminate in a complete PATA proposal. The seminar is limited to undergraduate students who are eligible for PATA grants. Please review PATA eligibility criteria before enrolling.
Seminar Overview:
- What is this program? Where can I go? Who can I work with? PT 1
- What is this program? Where can I go? Who can I work with? PT 2
- Writing an abstract; Requesting a letter of recommendation/sponsorship
- Writing a proposal: review criteria PT. 1
- Writing a proposal: review criteria PT. 2
- Peer Review; Revising proposals
- Preparing budgets
- Proofreading; Application form details