Grants, Grants, Grants

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• Grants, Grants, Grants
• Presentation for the South Dakota Community
  Foundation

John Williams Freelance Grant Writer jwilliams2652
_at_yahoo.com
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Getting to know you

• Briefly tell me
• Your name
• Where you work
• Your grant writing experience

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Getting to know me

• John Williams
• 20 years of Grant Writing experience
• 6 years at Public Television
• 8 years in the arts
• Last six years in Long-Term Care
• Recently began freelancing with clients such as
  Sanford USD Medical Center, SD Synod of the ELCA
  and SD Lions Club

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Definitions and Parameters

• A grant is a legal contract between a funds
  recipient and a granting agency for the purpose
  of implementing a
• Carefully specified
• Mutually agreed upon
• Project or program
• A partnership generally consists of multiple
  organizations and individuals working together
  under a common vision.

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Trends in Foundation and Government Grant Support

• Funders want to see communities working together
  to ensure non duplication of services
• Very few to no general operating support
• New or expanded services
• Demonstration projects and programs that involve
  community partnerships
• Many apps contain language grantee must
  partner etc.

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RFPs Request for Proposals

• AKA, NOFAs, NOGAs, ROAs etc.
• Requests for Proposal have lengthy, detailed
  instructions for required categories for the
  grant application
• Abstract
• Background and significance
• Problem Statement
• Goals Objectives
• Workplan
• Measurable Outcomes and Evaluation

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Aligning and Writing to Replicate

• It is crucial that your project aligns with the
  grantors guidelines
• After reviewing the RFPs of your potential
  funders, choose the most difficult to write first
  
• This way you can easily cut and paste sections of
  the large grant for other funders

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Create a Grant Writing Team

• Most people are afraid of grants with the
  perception that they are complicated and tedious.
  While this is can be true, there is safety in
  numbers
• Identify your internal colleagues who have a
  stake in the project
• Most businesses have a staff person who likes to
  work with numbers and data. Find them and
  befriend them

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Gather your resources

• Human
• Financial
• In-Kind
• Volunteer
• Outside partners (Letters of Support)

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Abstract

• Write this last if possible but you may need to
  structure a draft of the abstract to distribute
  to stakeholders early in the process
• This is your thesis and solution
• Succinct, engaging, compelling

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Background of project

• Or How was the need identified?
• Must research to complete this section
• Data must be updated for each application
• Find a trusted source of evidence based materials
  if possible
• Lots of information available on the web to
  support most ideas

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Goals, Objectives, Activities, Benchmarks
Measurable Outcomes

• Goals are what you hope for
• Objectives lead you to goals
• Activities achieve objectives
• Benchmarks are points in time in which particular
  activities are accomplished
• Measureable outcomes are tools for evaluation
• These should incorporate qualitative and
  quantitative measures if possible

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Work Plan

• This is one of the most helpful tools to guide
  your proposal.
• Creates a timeline of activities and those
  responsible
• Offers the opportunity to secure buy-in from
  internal and external stakeholders

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Evaluation

• Vital section of any grant
• Strive to include both qualitative and
  quantitative measures
• Best done by a third party
• Use existing measure whenever possible
• Information is InformationPositive or Negative

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Budget

• When youve organized your grant team, begin with
  the budget. Experience has shown that this
  discussion can bear out any potential issues in
  grant preparation.
• Any in-kind contributions?
• Does the RFP require matching funds?
• What is your indirect cost rate?
• How much detail do they want?

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Formal Partnerships

• Payor sources
• Contractors
• Referral sources
• Other providers
• Social service agencies
• Community agencies

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Informal Partnerships

• State agencies
• Workforce agencies
• Social services agencies
• County case workers
• Like-minded organizations and institutions

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Benefits of partnership

• Funding of new or expanded service lines
• Sharing the work
• Financial support
• Increased client base
• Positive public relations
• Demonstration of commitment to the community

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Challenges of Partnerships

• Sharing of the grant award
• Sustainability
• buy-in
• flexibility
• leadership
• resources
• time

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Case Study-Formal Partnership

• Expansion of delivering telehealth technology to
  seniors in a 4 county area to reduce ER visits
  and nursing home admissions and re-admissions.
• Partners Good Samaritan Society
• USDA Telemedicine Grant
• State of MN University of MN (Evaluator)
• County case managers
• Public Health Nurses

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Case study Informal Partnership

• Lutheran Social Services, Good Sam and Refugee
  and Immigration Center of Sioux Falls (Health
  Care Workforce Grant)

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Exercise and Q A

• The State Department of Social Services is
  providing dollars to agencies to increase access
  to preventive services with the goal of
  decreasing ER visits for residents with chronic
  diseases.
• Identify your Formal and Informal Partners