This document provides guidance on writing a funding proposal in 10 steps. It discusses developing goals and objectives, identifying project activities and developing a work plan, budget, and evaluation plan. It also covers writing a project description, describing your organization, and assembling the full proposal package, including a cover letter and letters of support. Participants work through examples and practice exercises to develop components of a sample funding proposal.

1. Proposal Writing Writing Your Proposal Part Two NWT Literacy Council

2. Agenda Warm-up activity Review group agreements Ten steps to writing a proposal Write a proposal together Write a proposal in groups

3. Warm-up Activity Find someone who…

5. Does not like to write?

8. Share your draft with others

10. Explain acronyms

11. Write as you would to the general public

12. Be honest and positive

14. Ten Steps to Writing a Proposal Pg. 61 Develop a project goal and objectives Identify activities Develop a work plan Develop a budget Develop an evaluation plan 6. Complete the proposal 7.Fill out the application form 8. Write a cover letter 9. Get letters of support 10. Put it all together

15. Step 1: Develop a project goal and objectives Pg. 62 By the end of this section you should have: A name for the project Goal Objectives Target group Reasons why the community needs this project 6. Reasons why your group should do this project 7.Potential partners 8. How your project meets the objectives of the funding

18. Example 2 Challenge: Loss of Aboriginal language Goal: Families in our community use their language and traditions more at home. Objectives: Promote the importance of parents passing on their language and traditional skills to their children. Teach families new skills to use their language at home. Show families how to prepare traditional foods.

19. Sample Project Refer to the project on page 64. Let’s work on our sample project.

20. Your Turn In your groups decide on your goals and objectives. Write them on flipchart paper (so we can all see them) Share with group.

22. Target Group:

23. Need:

24. Sponsor Group:

25. Potential Partners:

26. Role of Partners:Now you work with your group to complete the first page of the handout.

27. Warm-up Activity – Have You Ever… Have you ever sung karaoke? Have you ever been without a shower for more than 2 weeks? Have you ever ridden a horse? Have you ever broken a bone? Have you done volunteer work? Have you ever had a close relative who lived to over 100? Have you ever cooked a meal by yourself for more than 20 people? Have you ever been parachuting or done a bungee jump? Have you ever seen a polar bear? Have you ever written a proposal and been funded for it?

28. Step 2: Identify activities Pg. 65 Activities describe what you plan to do to achieve your project objectives. Look at page 66 – sample project in workbook.

29. For example Goal: Parents read more and do more literacy related activities with their children. Objectives: Promote family literacy in the community. Teach parents new ways to help their children’s literacy development. Work with individual families to support literacy development in the home

30. For example Objective 1: Promote family literacy in the community. Activities: Develop PSAs about family literacy for the community. Develop and deliver a workshop to parents about the importance of doing literacy related activities with their children.

31. Objective 2: Teach parents new ways to help their children’s literacy development. Activities: Develop family literacy workshops for parents. Deliver family literacy workshops to parents and their children on a weekly basis.

32. Objective 3: Work with individual families to support literacy development in the home. Activities: Develop a literacy kit of books, crafts, and other literacy ideas for using in family’s homes. Deliver one-on-one family literacy training to parents in their homes using the literacy kit.

33. Your Turn! Let’s decide on some activities for our sample project. Now it is your turn. Fill in Step 2 on your handout. Share with the larger group.

35. How long each activity will take

36. Who is responsible for each activity

37. What products you will produce

38. What results you expectLet’s review the sample project in the workbook – page 69 – 70.

40. Families understand that reading and doing literacy related activities are important.Your results need to be manageable.

41. Work PlanPg. 40 Objective 1: Promote family literacy in the community.

42. Your Turn Let’s develop a work plan (including the results of the project) for one of our objectives from our sample project. Now it is your turn. Develop a work plan for all your objectives. You can use all this information in your proposal. Use your handout… Decide on what the result of your project will be.

43. Warm-up Activity – What’s the Question Answer: 3 Answer: What Ti

45. In-kind support (donations of space, material or food)

46. Other revenue

48. Step 5: Develop an evaluation plan Pg. 77 The evaluation plan shows you how you plan to collect and analyze information.

49. Evaluation What do you think about when you hear the word evaluation? Why do we evaluate? Why don’t we evaluate?

50. Evaluation Some simple ways to evaluate: Ask workshop participants for their feedback. Talk to people who are involved in the project. Talk to people in the community about the project. Collect stories from participants.

51. Evaluation Plan Look at the sample on page 49. Let’s do one for our group project.

53. Develop Your Evaluation Plan Now it is time for you do develop an evaluation plan for your project.

55. Evaluation tools

58. A description of your group

59. A project summaryThere is a lot of writing involved in this part of the proposal.

60. A project description The project description usually takes about 1-2 pages. The description gives the details of the project. Go to page 81 Go to the sample proposals in the back – page 140

61. A description of your organization The description of your organization should be a ½ page to 1 page long. Refer to page 81 Sample proposal in back – page 159

62. A project summary The project summary should be around 1 page long. It summarizes the goals, objectives and results of your project. The summary is the first thing that funders look for. Refer to page 82 Sample project – page 139

63. Your Turn Let’s write a description of our group proposal (in point form). Now you do the same with your project.

64. Step 7: Write a cover letter Pg. 83 Every proposal needs a cover letter. The cover letter should summarize the project and tell why it is needed. Refer to page 84 and 168 for examples.

66. Who could we get letters of support from for our group project?

68. Step 10: Put it all together We have spent a lot of time writing. Now it is time to put it all together. We didn’t write the proposal in the way it will be presented to the funder.

69. How do I arrange my proposal?Pg. 88 Name Goal Sponsor Group Summary Description Description of your organization 7. Need for project 8. Partners 9. Work plan 10. Evaluation plan 11. Budget

70. DIY Quiz Get into two teams. Write as many questions (and answers) about proposal writing as you can on the cue cards. Each team reads out a question and the other team must answer.

72. Make sure you hand in your proposal on time

73. Call them and discuss your project ideas

74. Find out who to send your proposal to

76. Make sure your proposal is the right length

77. Call to make sure they received your proposal and ask when would be a good time to follow up

78. If you are turned down find out why