Grant Writing

Instructions

This paper is done in sections. I wil attach the paper I would like the paper to done on. Please make sure project description is 3-4 pages and their are objectives and goals implemented the paper. Choose Your ProjectBased upon a Community Needs Assessment, determine what gaps in service exist in your community. Your instructor will help identify sources of a needs assessment or community plan that outlines such recent research. A United Way agency may be a good starting place. If no local community needs assessment has been formally conducted, choose a service that you have good reason to believe is needed in your community. You can choose an existing organization that you feel needs additional resources to operate adequately. You can also choose a new service, based upon the business plan that you may have created in HUS 5XX Creating a New Human Services Organization. Then you will spend the next 8 weeks developing a grant proposal for this service or project for some organization. In this first step, you will decide what type of agency or service you want to assist. Think about vulnerable populations that may be underserved such as aging adults, homeless mothers and their children, runaway youth, chronically unemployed and impoverished adults, drug and alcohol addicted teens, disabled children and adults, mentally ill people, and families who lack sufficient financial resources to meet their needs. You may also find that supportive services such as community recreational programs, daycare centers in low income areas, neighborhood playgrounds, parent education resources, counseling, and job training are programs that will prevent residents from needing crisis intervention services in the future. These types of programs may also be considered in your grant proposal. Read Chapters 3 and 4 in the Coley and Scheinberg text and then write a brief paragraph about the type of project or service you are looking to fund. Is this a new service or part of an existing organization that may need additional resources? How does this project relate to Saint Leos Core value of Excellence? Submit this paragraph on a separate sheet of paper before the following Needs Statement.Research Your Grant ApplicationNext you will determine what type of proposal you will be developing. Are you applying to a government agency, a corporate foundation, or a non-profit organization? You will need to do some research to find a grant proposal that meets your needs. Use the websites in this syllabus (above) or those found in Appendix B of the text to locate a grant application that you can use as a hypothetical guide. The requirements will be different for each type of application chosen, but the steps in the process will be the same. You will follow this outline in the syllabus for your proposal, but finding a grant application will teach you how to find an RFP (Request for Proposal) in the future. You will identify what grant application you have found to meet the needs of your project. However, you will continue to follow this syllabus outline for your grant proposal, not the outline in the application you have researched. Read Chapters 1 and 2 of the Coley and Scheinberg text and then on the same paper as above, write another short paragraph about what grant application you found that could possibly fund your project. Describe this grant, giving the name, address, website, and specifics about who and what they fund. This paper will precede the following Needs Statement.Create a Needs StatementNow you will proceed to the Needs Statement. No matter what type of application you discover, you will need to justify and document the need for your service and why you are applying for money at this time. We call this the needs statement. The goal of the needs statement is to identify the conditions or problems that are leading you to develop a plan of action. In this section you need a strong rationale and data to back up your request. Without a strong Needs Statement, proposals will not get funded. Demonstrate your need based upon a local community needs assessment or other information you have researched. Reference your data sources and use current statistics to bring attention to your need. Example: Census data that documents the shift in population in your area and shows the growing number of ethnic minorities, or aging individuals, or rates of unemployment, or low income families. Use factual data to make your point. Read Chapter 5 and then complete a 2 page Needs Statement describing what the need or problem is and who is experiencing it. Use the information in Chapter 5 of the text to guide your writing. APA referencing required. Use of the Coley and Scheinberg textbook with reference to concepts in Chapter 5 and two other outside sources is required. Prepare to orally present your Needs Statement to the class for feedback on the strength of your statement. A short Powerpoint or Prezi with an outline of your main points should be used in this presentation. If the feedback indicates that additional research would be useful to document your need, then proceed to strengthen this first part of your proposal before you continue with the next step in the grant writing process. Also submit the one page paper from above, identifying your project and grant application.Due Date 10/26/19STEP 2: 15%Project DescriptionThis section describes in detail the project or service you are trying to fund. Most grant applications will have a specific format for this section of the proposal. Read your application thoroughly to determine what the funders are looking for in this part of the application. In addition to a narrative of your project, this section usually includes Program Goals and Objectives that are specific and measurable. The Goals relate to the main purpose of your program, what you are trying to accomplish. The Objectives are the steps you take to accomplish your goals. Consider what goals and objectives you will have for your proposal. Most applications contain 2-4 goals. Example: Goal 1 - To reduce child abuse in a certain location by a certain date Objective 1: provide parent education classes in a neighborhood center in a certain location to improve family functioning by 25% Objective 2: to offer counseling services in a certain location to offer techniques for better communication and to help eliminate family stress by 25% Objective 3: provide day care services and recreational opportunities in a certain location to assist families with healthy functioning and to improve their problem resolution by 25%. If you are using a government grant application as a guide, they usually have the goals provided and they are seeking grant applications to meet those goals. After a set of goals and objectives a narrative will follow, describing the implementation of the goals. What do you plan to do, who will do it, where, and in what time frame? This is your action plan. Some applications ask for an outline or time line, others accept a narrative of what you will do. Read your application thoroughly and then develop this Project Description section of your proposal in detail using specific and measurable goals and objectives, followed by your implementation plan which is your narrative, timelines, and any other appendices you are attaching. Reference to concepts in Chapter 6 of the Coley and Scheinberg text is required in this section. Use APA referencing. 3-4 Pages, plus attachments in Appendices Due Date 11/2/19

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