The ability to write grants for external funding is a valuable skill in many fields within the United States of America. The Grant Writing Badge indicates recipients have demonstrated this skill by earning an 80% or better on two projects. The first project applies basic grant writing skills to produce a mock grant proposal utilizing supplied information about a sample project. The second project applies the skills as students work with a client nonprofit organization to produce and submit a grant proposal for a current project identified by the nonprofit organization. Currently the badge may be earned in completing grant writing classes offered in sociology.