However, over the next two years, I remained engaged in professional development and training. I left the leadership course wanting to research what set of skills or experiences I could gain while still in a K-12 environment. This led me to a comment from Dr. Hirsch regarding the challenges facing community college leaders: limited funds and shrinking budgets. With shrinking budgets, grant writing and securing outside funding are highly sought-after skills 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 grant, but I took Dr. Brunner's advice and contacted the foundation to understand why we may not have been selected. With their feedback, I then applied for the Computers for Learning program and we were delighted to learn that we were the recipients of the