Writing a wining ict grant proposal in an hour

How to fight the credit crunch or do more with less Writing a winning ICT grant proposal – one hour version Miles Maier Lasa London ICT Champion 24 June 2010

Take-Aways
assess your ICT needs
identify benefits
identify objectives and outcomes
costing the project
Identify funders
Top Tips

1. Assess Your ICT Needs
What is a health check?
Benefits
EXERCISE 1: DIY Health Check
Use the ICT Health Check worksheet to answer questions about your own organisation
Highlight one issue and discuss it with the group

1. Assess Your ICT Needs
Using the Managing ICT checklists
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/healthchecklists
Inventorying
Belarc Adviser , Spiceworks

2. Benefits and priorities
EXERCISE 2 – identify project benefits
better communication
i ncreased collaboration
increased efficiency
improved service delivery
better tracking and decision making

3. Objectives
EXERCISE 3 - Making the business case
proposal – project description
objectives – what you are doing and why
outcomes – specific results on achieving objectives
outputs – goods/services produce

4. Costing your project
Exercise 4 – Costing ICT projects
What’s full cost recovery?
www.fullcostrecovery.org.uk
What are realistic prices?
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/calculatingtechnologybudget

5. Funding your project
List of 90 ICT funders – ( www.icthub.org.uk/research )
Your local CVS, library or other infrastructure org
NCVO Funding Central ( www.fundingcentral.org.uk ) - free to use database, resources and funding alerts
Fit for Funding ( www.fit4funding.org.uk ) - useful information sheets and a monthly email newsletter
Funders Online Portal ( www.efc.be ) – free access to news and resources on European funding streams

GRANT finder UK ( www.grantfinder.co.uk ) - online database of charitable, gov’t and EU funds. Free at your local CVS
Funderfinder ( www.funderfinder.org.uk ) - excellent fact sheets on fundraising skills. Costs £185 to access the online GIN directory or FREE at your local CVS
Trust Funding ( www.trustfunding.org.uk ) - for professionals. Subscribe from £225
UK Fundraising ( www.fundraising.co.uk ) - aimed at professional fundraisers. Free newslette
5. Funding your project

6. Top Tips
Discounted software
www.pugh.co.uk
www.phoenixs.co.uk
Donated software/network hardware
www.ctxchange.org
Reconditioned and recycled hardware
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk
www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk

6. Top Tips
Aggregate the news – RSS
Collaborate Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live
Free video conferencing www.oovoo.com , www.skype.com
Arranging meetings – www.doodle.com
Free event management – www.eventbrite.com
Free surveys - www.surveymonkey.com

Workshop prepared by Miles Maier London Region ICT Champion www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion [email_address] 020 7426 4496

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