Bigpicture funding steps in no particular order

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Show Me The Money- Funding Strategies, Resources
for Sustaining Partnerships
September 20, 2006 CBPR Skills Building
Workshops Ascension School Cove, OR
R. David Rebanal
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Session Objectives

• Learn about funding sources for CBPR work
• Learn about effective strategies for writing CBPR
  funding proposals
• Learn strategies for collaboratively developing a
  CBPR proposal
• Learn about NWHF 2006 CBPR RFP

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Identifying Funding Sources

• Utilize all of your connections
• Be Proactive, not reactive
• Consider non-traditional, creative ways to fund
  your partnership
• Consider a wide range of funding sources

4
Did you know..

• IHS funds CBPR- Native American Research Centers
  for Healthwww.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Research/na
  rch.cfm
• US Department of Housing and Urban Development
  funds CBPR- Community Outreach Partnership
  Centers Program www.oup.org/programs/aboutCOPC.as
  p
• Administration for Children and Families Head
  Start-University Partnerships Program
  www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/project/tprojectInde
  x.jsp?topicId6
• Sociological Initiatives Foundation
  www.grantsmanagement.com/sifguide.html
• Funding agencies that say we dont fund
  research may fund community-based participatory
  approaches to community problem-solving

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Stay on top of CBPR funding opportunities

• CBPR listserv co-sponsored by CCPH and Wellesley
  Central Health Corporation https//mailman1.u.wash
  ington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr
• Scan www.grants.gov (NIH)
• Funding Directory 2004 NWHF CBPR Conference
  Http//depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/directo
  ry-062704f.pdf

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Considering an RFP

• Does this RFP fit with the priorities and common
  agenda of the partnership?
• Does the funding agency support collaborative
  relationships?
• Does the funding agency appear knowledgeable
  about CBPR partnerships?
• How will proposals be reviewed?
• Does the RFP allow for basic principles of CBPR?

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Questions to ask before initiating a CBPR project

• Is self-interest driving the agenda?
• Do you have the necessary skills?
• Are you a researcher uncomfortable with changing
  your methods to work with participants?
• Are you a community member who wants a service
  but has no interest in research?

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Assembling the Research Team

• What kind of influence will community members
  have on the direction and activities of the
  study?
• How will community members be involved in all
  phases of the research?
• Who will make decisions?
• What will the structure for that decision making
  look like?
• How will the study be staffed?
• How will the study design be developed
  collaboratively by community partners and
  researchers?

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Questions to ask before initiating a CBPR
project (cont.)

• Does the burden to the community outweigh
  potential research benefits?
• Do you really buy into the values and
  principles of CBPR?
• (CCPH CBPR curriculum, 2006)

10
Assembling the Research Team

• How will the study team facilitate a
  collaborative community relationship and sustain
  equitable involvement throughout the study?
• What training or capacity building opportunities
  will be incorporated into the budget for
  community partners and for the researchers?
• What will the benefits of participation be to the
  community partners, from the researchers point
  of view?
• What is the plan for sustaining the partnership
  in the community after completion of the project?

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Other considerations

• Define roles, responsibilities, and expectations
  in proposal writing
• Budgeting Consider unique items (e.g., cell
  phones, staff, safety items, child care, food,
  stipends, interpretation services, incentives)
• Allow time for partners to review

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Developing Strong Proposals

• What drives reviewers crazy?

13
Announcing 2006 CBPR RFP

• Preventing and Managing Chronic Diseases Using
  Community-Based Participatory Research

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NWHF Contact Information

• www.nwhf.org
• Visit our website to sign up for e-news for
  monthly updates of Foundation activities
• Phone [phone]
• Email us
• David Rebanal rebanal_at_nwhf.org