However, over the next year or two, I continued to engage in professional development and training. I left the Leadership course wanting to research what core set of skills or experiences I could gain while still in a K-12 environment. This led me to a comment Dr. Hirsch made regarding the challenges facing community college leaders: limited funding and dwindling budgets. With shrinking budgets, making grants and securing external funding is a highly desired skill at many higher education institutions. In September 2015, I enrolled in the “Grant Writing for Profit and Nonprofit Industries” course. By the end of the year I had written my first grant for the Prudential Foundation. Unfortunately we had not received the funding, but I took Dr. Brunner's advice and contacted the foundation to understand why we may not have been selected. Using their feedback, I then applied for the Computers for Learning program and we were thrilled to learn that we were the recipients of the