The Grants Academy
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The document provides an overview of a workshop on obtaining federal grants. It discusses assessing organizational capacity, developing goals and objectives, writing the proposal concept, needs assessment, evaluation measures, sustainability planning, developing a federal budget, and the grant writing process. Key areas covered include building the proposal based on requirements, developing timelines and partnerships, and qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods.
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The Grants Academy
- 1. Illinois Federal Grants Academy Jay Readey, JD, MBA April 15, 2010
- 11. The Outline
- 16. Needs Assessment and Goals
- 22. Sample Strong Program Logic Model Goals and Objectives Ongoing Evaluation * Adapted from the University of Wisconsin Extension Program Action Model
- 23. Be Able to Articulate the Flow of Your Program Operations* *Adapted from U.S. Department of Labor Ready4Work Program Model
- 35. Write it.
- 37. The Proposal
- 40. Evaluation
- 50. Developing the Federal Budget
- 53. Cost Principles
- 71. Thank you! Questions? [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- -I’d like this to be fun and interactive -Mostly, I’d like you to be empowered and have the confidence to try -We are all lifelong learners, right -Be able to compete for a federal grant is essentially the subset of a well-run organization. You won’t be able to submit a successful grant, if you organization is not achieving programmatic outcomes or if it does not have the proper financial management in place. -Honestly, you need to be driven to do this successfully, which leads us to the first topic - Motivation
- -I’d like this to be fun and interactive -Mostly, I’d like you to be empowered and have the confidence to try -We are all lifelong learners, right -Be able to compete for a federal grant is essentially the subset of a well-run organization. You won’t be able to submit a successful grant, if you organization is not achieving programmatic outcomes or if it does not have the proper financial management in place. -Honestly, you need to be driven to do this successfully, which leads us to the first topic - Motivation
- What are the basics you have ready to go for your department? – go around the room.
- Have a year-round process to pull off the shelf.
- This isn’t like writing a foundation grant, well at least not exactly.
- Use DOL example of where to start -Begin small group breakouts to learn how to manage the RFP. -Small group questions (you have 5 minutes to answer and report back): Group 1. Describe the format of the proposal (e.g. page length, etc.) Group 2. Describe when it is due and how you will get it to where it needs to go Group 3. Who can apply? Group 4. What do you do with letters of support? Group 5. What is the duration of this grant? Summarize whether grantees can expect funding beyond the initial duration of the grant. What we learned: -where these questions about the proposal content (no). You can be the most brilliant practitioner in the entire world, it you don’t know how to follow instructions, you will fail.
- Now that you know you want to apply for a federal grant at some point, here is where you need to start.
- What are we trying to achieve?
- What are we trying to achieve?
- Discussion – who is your planning team and why
- Discussion on NOFA topics: -Ask groups for examples of ‘point of view’ -My examples: -compassionate capitalism -prisoner re-entry (note how many pages are devoted to DOL’s point of view) -Other examples: best practices, early intervention, evidence-based approach, positive youth development
- Example: salary payments for a counselor to developmentally disabled clients in a job training and workforce readiness grant Credits: rebates, refunds, insurance proceeds
- Advertising: Exceptions for recruiting, procurement and surplus disposal necessary for performance of an award Capital Expenditures: not without prior approval, unless < $5000 for special purpose equipment (e.g., X-rays) Interest only in limited instances of post-award financing
- Note hidden slides that people can look at in the handout, especially different methods and the tension between keeping 990 M&G down and recovering enough indirect costs from federal grants
- Note hidden slide in handout