# Presentation: 224756

## Developing

**Developing**
**Quality **
**Grant Proposals**

## Navigating the Grants Process

*Receiving the grant award*

*Researching*
*opportunities*

*Beginning *
*the journey...*

*Understanding*
*the  process*

*Writing*
*the grant*

*Submitting*
*the proposal*

## Sample Model Proposal 

_**Readers Scores:**_

**100**
**100**
** ****99**

**Office of **
**Migrant Education**

**High School**
**Equivalency Program**
**CFDA Number:: 84.141A  **

- Sample Model Proposal

## Agenda

-  Review the grant application notice
-  Establish timetables
-  Address the selection criteria
-  Review the model proposal

## Grant Application Notice

-  Published in Federal Register
-  Accessible via the web
-  Contains all vital information
-  Primary tool for writing the proposal
-  Serves as outline for proposal

## Using the Application Notice

-  Don’t be intimidated by the language
-  Read notice thoroughly
-  Take notes
-  Print out all included forms
- When in doubt ask questions

## Key Program Questions

-  Who is eligible?
-  When is the deadline(s)?
-  What is the CFDA number?
-  What is the award amount per grant?
-  How many projects will be funded?

## Key Program Questions

-  7.  Where can I get the application?
-  8.  Is there a page limit?
-  9. Where do I submit the application?
- 10. Who is the program contact?

## Establishing Timelines

-  Assess time available
-  Count backwards from the deadline
-  Outline necessary steps
-  Assign duties to writing team
-  Develop a writing strategy
-  Build organizational bio

## Monetary Road Map

** ****Clear, concise, and detailed**
** ****Consistent with institutional policy**
** ****Meets federal requirements**
**Aligned with purpose/statute**
** ****Plots out the life of the grant**
** ****Achieve project goals**

_***Monetary Road Map***_

## Organizing the Proposal

- Face page
- Budget forms
- 1 page abstract (typically)
- Narrative (Selection criteria)
- 	A. Need
- 		(1) Identify the target population
- 		(2) Provide basis for need
- 		(3) Explain weaknesses of current
-           support systems

## Inverted Pyramid

-  Useful writing style for page limits
-  Evident in newspaper stories
-  Prioritizes information
-  Makes editing easier

- Most
- valuable
- Least
- Valuable

## Selection Criteria

- Addressing the statute		( 5)
-  Novice eligibility			( 5)
-  Need for project			(15)
-  Quality of project design		(20)
-  Quality of project services	(15)
-  Quality of project personnel	(10)
-  Adequacy of resources		(15)
-  Quality of project evaluation	(20)

- Goal:					105

## Meeting the Authorizing

- Statute

-  Not a “gimme”
-  Proposal must address statute
-  The opener of the narrative
-  Tie your proposal’s purpose to
-      the statute
-  Connects other criteria together

## Need for Project

-  Typically sets the tone for proposal
-  Must be demonstrated through facts
-  Use most recent statistics
-  Compare target area with region
-      and nation
-  Avoid emotion and rhetoric

## Quality of Project Design

-  Should meet the stated need
-  Reflects the life of the grant project
-  Detail recruitment of target
-      population
-  Varied means of addressing need
-  Community outreach
-  Contingency plans

## Quality of Project Services

-  Curriculum proven via scientifically
-      based research & practice
-  Cite examples of activities annually
-  Demonstrate how criteria meets need
-  Address professional development
-  Staff input & participant feedback

## Quality of Project Personnel

-  Detailed job descriptions
-  Competitive job qualifications
-  Time & effort and salaries
-  Include resumes if applicable
-  Demonstrate staff’s ability to
-      relate to target population

- Research average salaries regionally

## Adequacy of Resources

-  Allowable, allocable, and reasonable
-  Address matching requirements
-  Non-federal support from applicant
-      and partners—community buy in
-  Focus on sustainability
-  Examples:  staff, facilities, equipment,
-      training materials, or cash

## Quality of Project Evaluation

-  Ambitious but attainable objectives
-  Annual goals and objectives
-  Time for input during project
-  Achieved through services
-  Meets the need
-  Relates to GPRA
-  A tool for replicating success

## Writing Strong Objectives

- _Exercise_:
- Participants will graduate on time.
- 100% of our participants will graduate by
-      their fifth year in college.
- Counselors will meet with their students
-      at least four times annually to select classes.
- 4.  65% of participants will be in good
-      academic standing each grading period.
- 85% of graduating seniors will enroll
-      in a community or four year college.

## Winning Reminders

-  Research funding opportunities
-  Update statistics & applicant data
-  Budget wisely
-  Read *What Should I Know*
-     *About ED Grants?*
-  Locate agency guidance
-  Implement reader comments
-  Apply, Apply, Apply!